August Primary Sparks Confusion Across States
Voters and candidates fret over a new August primary that complicates the election calendar. The General Assembly struggles to finalize a schedule while August turnout is expected to be small due to vacations and heat. Governors, lieutenant governors, congressmen in some districts, and various state and local posts face a first Tuesday in November general election after August party contests.
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General Assembly
State House
Good news in Crime Watch shows citizen effort helps arrests
The Enterprise notes a carrier boy spotting strange behavior and reporting to police while a victim engraved his Citizens Band radio with a license number. Combined, these acts yielded arrests and solid evidence, underscoring citizen participation in fighting crime.
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Crime Watch
Congress Must Obey Law Says Washington Police
In Washington DC the police chief announces that members of Congress will be cited or arrested for violations like any other citizen. Previously capital police limited action to serious felonies by senators and representatives, but recent events prompted a shift toward enforcing traffic laws and other offenses.
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Washington, D.C
Congress
District of Columbia
Mr. Cullinane
Department of Justice
Justice
Congressional
Correction corrects Guilford County race candidate list
An editorial last week mislisted Hal B. Lewis as not among Guilford County Board of Commissioners candidates. He is a Democratic candidate. The editorial note on the lengthy list is now supported by this corrected information.
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Hal B. Lewis
Lewis
Guilford County
Colorado’s Centennial and Second Century Looms
Colorado marks its 100th statehood anniversary amid reflections on its mountains water and growth. The piece notes the Rockies as wealth spines aspen and vail ski boom postwar and fears over development and energy extraction pressuring environmental safeguards and Olympic plans in 1976 under Governor Richard D. Lamm.
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Colorado
Rockies
Bill Hosokawa
Plains
Denver
Richard D. Lamm
Watergate Reform Act: a necessary but flawed step
A conservative view argues the 1976 Watergate Reform Act creates a single Special Prosecutor and new offices to deter federal abuse. It cites Senator Sam Ervin's antidote idea while noting constitutional concerns, delays, and the need for elected officials of integrity to trust public service.
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Senate
Curtis
Fannin
Hruska
Laxalt
Scott
Virginia
Department of Justice
Ford
Ervin Committee
Congress
Sam Ervin
Sam
Moynihan as Senator Hopeful and Kissinger's Latin Policy
The piece profiles Daniel Patrick Moynihan as a blunt, combative former Nixon aide turned Senate hopeful with a sharp tongue and strong stances on human rights and health programs. It contrasts his feisty interview behavior with his defense of equity and full employment, then shifts to critique of the good neighbor policy as diplomats clash over visa denials for Ecuadorians.
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Washington
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
New York City
Hell's Kitchen
Tufts
Harvard
Moynihan
White House
Richard Nixon
Senate
Nixon
Harlem
Watts
Ford
United Nations
Jimmy Carter
New York
Public Interest Research Group
U.S
Rhodesia
South Africa
Chris Aidan
Aidan
Uncommitted Delegates Visit the White House
A Washington column sketches a satirical scene as uncommitted Republican delegates visit President Ford. The skit features delegates from Suffolk County and Sawtooth, Mont, debating train service, ski lifts, and future political favors, while Ford jokes about solving local sewer problems. Various named figures appear in quick, comic exchanges.
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Washington
Suffolk County
N.Y
United States
Ford
White House
Gerald Ford
Gladstone
Minetree
Mr. Gladstone
Kansas City
Ronald Felder
Sawtooth, Mont
Sawtooth
Morton
Court of Saint James
Henry Kissinger
State Department
Ronald Reagan
Frank Sinatra
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Senate Select
House
Iver
THE
Milwaukee Journal
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