Napoleon Gold Fever and French Gold Hoard
The article notes a Napoleon gold coin selling at $52 with French households hoarding vast sums, totaling about $31 billion in gold. It contrasts US gold ownership limits since 1933 with potential easing by President Nixon, while gold trades near $160 per ounce and remains largely out of reach for many Americans facing high food costs.
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France
Roosevelt
Congress
Nixon
Treasury
William Simon
House Banking and Currency
Simon
India's Atomic Explosion Reshapes regional and global aims
India's underground atomic explosion last month reverberates beyond science into geopolitics. It raises risks of a nuclear arms race, strains peaceful energy cooperation, rattles Canada over plutonium sources, and tears at India's ideals of social justice and nonalignment while signaling a shift in Indira Gandhi's troubled era.
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India
Pakistan
Canada
Indira Ghandi
Far Eastern Review
Russia
Rajasthan
Nuclear Club
Murphy's Law expanded beyond common notion in Chapel Hill
Pete Ivey in the Chapel Hill Newspaper cites Betty Squeal detailing eight Murphy's Laws. The list includes things like things go from bad to worse when left alone and the one causing the most damage will go wrong. The piece notes entropy and ends with a Webster definition of the universal degradation to inert uniformity.
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Pete Ivey
Chapel Hill
Betty Squeal
Betty
Pete
Webster’s
Watergate years and Teapot Dome compared in a shadow of scandal
The piece compares Watergate to Teapot Dome, noting Watergate’s two years with no clear end and Teapot Dome lasting nine. It outlines Fall’s bribery convictions, possible ongoing indictments, and ongoing debates on national security, executive privilege, and impeachment shaping the era’s political discourse.
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Teapot Dome
Warren G. Harding
Harding
Navy Department
Interior Department
Interior
Albert B. Fall
Elk Hills
California
Edward L. Doheny
Wyoming
Harry F. Sinclair
Fall
Watergate
Nixon Goes On Middle East Trip Amid High Security
Washington desk reports President Nixon faces elevated danger on a Middle East tour. Experts warn of possible Arab terrorist attacks with shoulder fired missiles. Secret Service and ships deploy extensive security, medical teams prep aboard a carrier, and Egyptian routes are carefully guarded. The White House weighs travel risks while impeachment debates swirl.
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Jack Anderson
United Feature Syndicate
Washington
Nixon
Middle East
White House
Popular Democratic Front For the Liberation of Palestine
Secret Service
Stuart Knight
Venezuela
A Word Edgewise A Poser Policing Of Religious Sects
A columnist recalls mail order ordinations and reflects on church legitimacy under the First Amendment. It contrasts court limits on judging religion with precedents like Ballard v. United States and debates whether states can enforce public health and safety against faith-based exemptions. The piece ends noting potential Supreme Court direction under Burger.
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Weston
Roche
Commonwealth
California
Potsdam
Supreme Court
Jehovah's Witnesses
U.S
Ballard
I AM
William O. Douglas
Burger Court
Douglas
Upside Down World in Nixon Era Wordplay
Capital Viewpoint columnist Rod Macleish muses on Watergate's lasting normality. Washington reporters linger with a convicted Nixon campaign felon as debates rage over impeachment and law. The piece warns against becoming numb to political grotesquerie and ponders society's sense of normalcy post-crisis.
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Rod Macleish
Enterprise Assn
Washington
Nixon
Jefferson
Lincoln
Roosevelt
House of Representatives
Joe McCarthy
White House
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Bethesda Naval Hospital
Myer Rosenthal
Navy
Cairo
Alexandria
Egypt
Syria
Israel
Jordan
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Vernon Acree
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