Congress Fails To Move Welfare Bills In Rush To Adjourn
Editorial critiques Congress for delaying and gutting humanitarian bills amid a late adjournment. It notes the family assistance plan was dropped, Social Security reform stalled, and a compromise food stamp bill barely passed. It highlights Mills’s pledge to push retroactive family welfare via Social Security and accuses the Senate of obstructing progress.
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Congress
Nixon
Senate
House
Wilbur D. Mills
Ways and Means Committee
Mills
Where Did The Money Go City Debt Bond Question
A citizen questions rising city debt and a proposed 13 350 000 bond authorization in a special election next Tuesday. The piece notes tax increases despite revaluations widening the base and warns debt may near the 50 million legal limit, urging a nonpolitical stocktake of finances and future bond plans.
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New City” Hall
City Hall
Nixon on the Eve of Midterm Challenges in 1968
In Ohio during a long campaign day Nixon, 58, saw a girl with a placard reading Bring Us Together and made it his presidency theme. Critics assess his midterm record as mixed, noting Vietnam withdrawal progress and uncertain domestic plans amid division and race tensions.
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Ohio
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Thomas Jefferson
Harry Truman
My Lai Massacre Trials Open to Higher-Order Scapegoats
Three years after My Lai, Army trials continue with lower rank defendants while new secret interrogations accuse Col. Oran Henderson of issuing orders. Lt. Calley faces murder charges as other officers allegedly relayed orders and division leaders failed to notify the Pentagon. The Americal Division, a poorly trained unit drawn from scattered battalions, included college graduates and remedial-education recruits, and several men were Black or Mexican-American.
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Washington
My Lai
William Calley, Jr
Calley
Oran Henderson
Frank Barker,Jr
Ernest Meédina
Col. Henderson
Samuel Easter
Pentagon
William Westmoreland
U.S
Vietnam
Americal
Charlie Company
Army
Veterans say careers trump country in Vietnam command
The column argues that promotions favor West Point ties and ambition over skill, citing how Am erical Division leaders rotated every six to eight months and junior officers led combat units. It recalls My Lai accountability and critiques lavish Pentagon football travel as emblematic excess.
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Koster
West Point
Vietnam
Américas
Westmoreland
Army
Nixon
My Lai
Henderson
Air Force
New Orleans
Air Force Academy
University of Tennessee
Junketeer
John Ryan
Washington
Andrews Air Force Base
Austin Russell
Russell Dougherty
Donald Crow
Otto Glasser
George Boylan
Harvey Goldsworthy
Albert Clark
William Woodyard
Robin Olds
Strategic Air Command
Bruce Holloway
Gerald Johnson
Offutt
Air Force Base
Ned
al National Guard
Enerala
Charles W. Sweeney
Massachusetts
William McCall
District of Columbia
Discipline and Democracy in a Modern Age
C Felix Harvey argues that democracy relies on self discipline and respect for law. He warns that lax home and church instruction erodes civic virtue, increases disorder, and could push society toward authoritarianism unless renewed religious training and moral standards are strengthened.
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C. Felix-Harvey
North Carolina
Atlanta
High Point College
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