Era of the gag orders tests press free speech balance
A nationwide surge of court orders bars news coverage of pretrial hearings and trials without judge approval. Judges in Nebraska and Florida, plus a Whiteville North Carolina case, argue restrictions protect a defendant’s right to a fair trial, while critics say such limits abridge press freedom and public knowledge of court proceedings.
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Whiteville
Florida
Nebraska
Supreme Court
Harry A. Blackmun
Ronald Raff
J. Wilton Hunt Jr
James C. Eubanks
Hunt
Angola Crisis Mirrors Congo Struggles for Independence
The article surveys Angola as a three-way civil war with MPLA backed by Russia and Cuba, while National Front and National Union lean West with mercenaries and South African support. It notes Angola’s mineral riches and strategic coast, the looming oil routes, and U.S. cautious stance under Kissinger amid fears of greater foreign involvement.
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Angola
Columbus
America
Portugal
Belgian Congo
Belgium
Congo
Zaire
National Front For the Liberation of
National Union For the Total Independence of
Popular Movement For the Liberation of
Popular Movement
MPLA
Russia
National Front
National Union
South Africa
Africa
Persian Gulf
South America
United States
Europe
South Atlantic
Henry Kissinger
Detroit
Vietnam
Ford to make four day working visit to China
President Ford will arrive in Peking December 1 for a four day working visit with brief stops in Indonesia and the Philippines on the way home. The trip is not expected to change U S Chinese relations significantly though it will be watched by the Soviet Union.
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Ford
Peking
Indonesia
Philippines
United States
China
Richard M. Nixon
Shanghai
Soviet Union
Henry A. Kissinger
James R. Schlesinger
Schlesinger
U.S
Stephen Barber
Far Eastern Economic Review
Nixon
Vietnam
Congress
Turkey
Presidency
Taiwan and China trade ties amid Taiwan status uncertainty
The 1972 Shanghai Communique set China as the sole government of China and called for U.S. forces to withdraw from Taiwan, while the U.S. aimed to reduce forces gradually. Since then troop levels fell from about 8,000 to 2,000 and the Seventh Fleet stopped patrolling the Formosa Strait, though a full pullout seems unlikely soon. Trade development was cited as a path to normalization, with exports rising from 63.5 million in 1972 to 820.5 million in 1974, and about 250 million in 1975, a shift Eckstein links to signaling limits on rapid normalization.
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Taiwan
Shanghai
People’s Republic of China
China
U.S
United States
Formosa Straits
Indochina
Alexander Eckstein
FBI Smear Tape Plot Against Dr. King Revealed
The piece details long suspected FBI efforts against Martin Luther King Jr led by J Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson. It describes mailed covert materials including a tainted tape from a Willard Hotel party and a death implication note aimed at King. Coretta King opened the package in Atlanta and King later told close associates he could no longer trust the FBI.
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FBI
King
Washington
Willard Tel
Clyde Tolson
Coretta
Noone
Hoover
Coretta King
Atlanta
Florida
Oslo
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Dr. King
Young
America
Ing
Dr. Luther King
Senate
Realists Should Listen To Sakharov In 1960s Speak
John P. Roche reviews Andrei Sakharov's My Country and the World, praising its calm, rational indictment of Soviet tyranny and urging Western intellectuals to heed his warnings. Roche notes Sakharov's appeal to universal values, contrasts with Solzhenitsyn, and critiques Cold War intellectual blindness and Kissinger-era detente.
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Andrei ‘Id. Sakharov
Knopf
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Sakharov
Indochina
America
K.G.B
Solzhenitsyn
Kissinger
Role of Zionism in UN debate shown as lesson in hypocrisy
In a 1947 UN debate Semyon Taarapkin urged honoring self determination for Jews while Andrei Gromyko argued Jews and Arabs share roots in Palestine. The piece argues Soviet cynicism, aiming to anchor influence in the Middle East, condemns Zionism as racism, and criticizes the Assembly as a powerless debating society.
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William L. Ryan
Alliance
United Nations Guess
United Nations
U.S
Semyon Taarapkin
Foviet
Palestine
Andrei Gromyko
U.N
Soviet Union
General Assembly
USN
Moscow
Kremlin
Mediterranean
East Europe
Yugoslavia
Greece
France
Italy
Aad
United States
Israel
South Korea
Assembly
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Jack Anderson
United Feature Syndicate
USA
Box
Washington, D.C
John P. Roche
King Features Syndicate
Teton Cie Oi
Senator Soaper
Saya
Jawa
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