Inmate Grievance Commission Proposes Prison Reforms
Recommendations to ease crowding and expand inmate programs aim to prevent turmoil like the Raleigh Women’s Prison incident. Proposals include closing the hot prison laundry, expanding medical care, clearer grievances, and diverting offenders to public works and education programs while planning to hire a female superintendent.
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Raleigh
Women’s Prison
Ralph Edwards
Edwards
Morris Kea
Kea
Commission
David L. Jones
Department of Corrections
Department
Jones
Fred Morrison
Morrison
Thieu Likely to Move to America, U.S. Scrutiny
Washington reports from Taiwan reveal South Vietnam’s ousted president Nguyen Van Thieu plans to settle in the United States. U.S. diplomats fear demonstrations but expect his eventual arrival, while tensions over CIA wiretapping and a restless Federal Maritime Commission draw attention to policy and integrity concerns involving Helen Delich Bentley.
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Washington
U.S
Taiwan
South Vietnam
Nguyen van Thieu
United States
Vietnam
Thieu
CIA
Bell System
Latin America
Russia
China
Helen Delich Bentley
Federal Maritime Commission
Geneva
London
Paris
San Francisco
Reno
Clarerice Morse
Ashton Barrett
Bentley
Morse
A Noble Vision of Trail Drives Appalachian Celebration
Benton MacKaye spoke of forest paths guiding civilization two generations ago. The Appalachian Trail Conference marks its 50th anniversary in Boone this weekend, celebrating a plan to let people experience untamed wilderness amid 20th century America.
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Benton MacKaye
Maine
Georgia
Boone
America
Paving the Sahara Aims to Link Sahel Nations to Markets
African road projects push from Niamey to the hinterlands and beyond. The Trans-Saharan Highway aims to connect Algiers to Lagos by late 1980s or early 1990s with Canadian, Czechoslovak, French and Tunisian aid. West Africa sees further roads under construction.
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Algeria
Mediterranean
Salah
Kansas
Palm Beach
Tamanrasset
Hoggar Mountains
Agadez
Niger
Gao
Mali
Sahara
Niger River
Canada
Czechoslovakia
France
Tunisia
West Africa
Hamani Diori
Canadian National Railroad
South Africa
Mombasa
Kenya
Indian Ocean
Lagos
Nigeria
Gulf of Guinea
Europe
Sahelian Africa
Algiers
Tyrannicide and the Trujillo Case Revisited
The piece questions the legality and morality of state killings of foreign leaders, cites the 1961 Trujillo murder in the Dominican Republic, and suggests U.S. secret action and Kennedy era involvement. It recalls Bosch's wartime exile, Bay of Pigs fallout, and hints at CIA roles in the Trujillo plot.
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Rafael Leonidas Torjillo Molina
San Jose
Costa Rica
Juan
Carmen Bosch
Trujillo
Bosch
de Gaulle
John Kennedy
Bay of Pigs
Castro
Batista
Santo Domingo
Juan Bosch
Bosches
Don Juan
Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
The Art Buchwald Column A Limited Nuclear War
Washington reports the Air Force will train crews for a limited nuclear war as a flexible option. An unnamed government source discusses targeting cities in a staged exchange, the hot line, and fears of cascading escalation. The dialogue probes whether such a strategy risks broader conflict and whether leaders will avoid all out war while preserving options.
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Washington
Pentagon
Air Force
United States
Moscow
Mobile
Ala
Minsk
White Plains
N.Y
Kiev
New Orleans
Leningrad
Ukraine
Detroit
Congress
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Tiday
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Charles Dunn
State Bureau of Investigation
Jack Anderson
United Feature Syndicate
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Rockefeller Commission
Ms. Bentley
Avondale Shipyards
Nixon
Charles Mathias
R.md
Helen Bentley
White House
Maritime Commission
Niamey
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Sahel
Chad
North Africa
Libya
Edward
Levi
Ford
Hitler
Stalin
Thomas Aquinas
Dominican Republic
116Th St
Manhattan
Sam Harper
Time
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