Powerful Threat to Public Labor Bills at Congress Hearings
Congress weighs three bills expanding labor rights to state county and municipal workers and teachers. HR 7684 would require union membership for all public employees, undermining right to work and shifting governance to unions. Critics warn of increased strikes and loss of citizen control.
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Congress
William L. Clay
Missouri
St. Louis
American Federation of State
National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation
Michigan
James Marshall
Assembly of Government
Barron’s
Ublic
Frank Thompson Jr
New Jersey
Augustus Hawkins
California
North Carolina dissolves Consolidated University board
The Consolidated University of North Carolina trustees dissolve the united board and form six campus based boards as legislated. The change, effective July 1, follows past leadership by Dr. Frank Graham and William Friday, with Henry Foscue and Jake Froelich continuing on the new boards for Chapel Hill and the state system.
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North Carolina
Consolidated University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina
General Assembly
Consolidated University
O. Max Gardner
University At
Chapel Hill
Woman's College At
Greensboro
State College At
Raleigh
Frank Graham
William Friday
Consolidated University Board
Friday
Henry Foscue
Jake Froelich
High Point
Foscue
Froelich
Objective Reporting Under Communist Censorship Across Borders
The piece critiques so called objective reporting under Soviet rule, noting expulsions of foreign correspondents like David Bonavia and others for nonconformist coverage. It cites Western protests and recalls historical incidents, arguing that propaganda shapes what counts as news in Eastern Europe.
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London
Foreign Ministry
David Bonavia
London Times
Bonavia
Moscow
Literaturnaya Gazeta
Soviet Writers’ Union
Newsweek
Whitman Bassow
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Per Egil Hegger
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
CBS
William Cole
Leningrad
Europe
Fernando Zidar
L’unita
Rome
Nixon
Warsaw
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Gomulka
Pope Paul
Kennedy shifts toward McGovern in California clash
Kennedy signals possible help to McGovern if California primary is close while urging nonconfrontation. The two rivals, former neighbors and friends, try to avoid smear tactics as tight race for delegates looms. Separate White House move seeks to curb dope trafficking narratives linked to Red China.
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Washington
Ted Kennedy
Dmass
George McGovern
McGovern
California
Kennedy
Massachusetts
Hubert Humphrey
Humphrey
Nixon
Georgia
Lester Maddox
Peking
White House
China
Mao Tsetung
Mao
Leonid Brezhnev
Nixon shifts stance defending China amid opium claims
A White House memo circulated to State, Defense, Treasury and USIA urges countering anti China propaganda. It cites a two page briefing on PRC opium and asserts China controls production, while FBI Weathermen files link Weather Underground to Chinese communists.
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Richard Nixon
China
Departments of State, Defense, Treasury
U.S. Information Agency
Red China
Prc
White House
Richard Harkness
NBC
U.S
Chou En-lai
Gamal Nasser
Egypt
Chou
Vietnam
Peking
Yunnan
Weathermen
FBI
Pentagon
Weatherman
Students For A Democratic Society
America
Focos
Central Committee
Nixon mirrors Soviet perils with blunt postwar forecast
The author warns on TV and in print that the USSR lags economically behind Western powers since 1917 yet could surpass America if key systems collapse. He lists twenty one drastic measures from destroying highways and cars to curbing free press and striking rights, ending with a jab at Brezhnev.
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Nixon
Soviet Union
Russia
United States
Great Britain
France
Germany
Princeton
Cyril E. Black
Ussr
U. S
Moscow
Aeroflot
Intourist
America
Red Army
Soviet Kgb
Brezhnev
Gun Control Viewed As Intellectual Plot
A Letter to the Editor argues gun control is a liberal plot to ban handguns, claiming violence stems from people not laws. The writer criticizes media bias, cites personal experiences with killers, and warns against disarming law abiding citizens while criminals obtain weapons.
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America
The
New York Times
Baltimore Sun
Washington Post
High Point Enterprise
Kennedys
King
George Wallace
Attica
Wallace
Smith-Wesson
Remington
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