Peak-Load Pricing Sparks Debate In North Carolina
An article discusses peak-load pricing as a method to lower electricity costs by shifting usage. It contrasts voluntary consumer changes with a demonstrated device that could cut power to appliances during peak times without user knowledge, labeling it an involuntary brown-out option.
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North Carolina
Utilities Commission
Raleigh
Britain’s postwar crisis deepens as economy stalls
A historical overview argues Britain faces a grave economic and political crisis. Inflation nears 30 percent, unemployment tops one million, and production and investment shrink. Predictions warn of worsening conditions this winter, with high taxation and nationalization blamed for weak growth and social strain.
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Denis Healy
Britain
Germany
Lord Robens
Vickers
Weimar Republic
Hitler
Britain on the brink of crisis tests parliamentary democracy
The piece argues Britain faces strains to its constitutional system as public faith in Parliament wanes while crises widen the risk of coalition government or strong leadership from figures like Enoch Powell. It contrasts Labour and Conservative disillusion with a surge for Liberal influence and warns the democratic order may be tested this winter.
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London
Britain
House of Commons
Lord Shawcross
Labor
Encounter
Tory
M. P
Enoch Powell
Ehrlichman Details Wounded Knee Siege Facts
Former White House aide John Ehrlichman recounts the 1973 Wounded Knee siege and Army options to use tanks and a division, notes Nixon’s role as Camp David reigned, and names Wayne Colburn and Joseph Sneed as pivotal figures in the handling of the crisis.
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Washington
Wounded Knee
S.C
John Bhelichman
White House
Marton Bran Co
George Armstrong Custer
U.S
Army
Ehrlichman
Fred Buzhardt
Defense Department
Justice Department
Nixon
Camp David
Ken Cole
Nixon White House
Vietnam
Sneed
Kissinger
Paris
Cole
Labor Power and Meany Myth in AFL-CIO Politics
A critical look at claims that AFL-CIO leaders like George Meany control unions’ political activity. The piece explains the federation’s structure, its nonbinding Executive Council decisions, and COPE neutrality versus local union autonomy. It argues unions determine own political actions and cites past neutrality and varied endorsements.
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Afl-Cio
George Meany
Meany
McGovern
New York Times
Intelligentisia
al Shanker
American Federation of Teachers
Labor Movement
Labor
McGovernite
Cesar Chavez
Aflcio
Robert Kennedy
Chavez
United States
Canada
Lane Kirkland
al Barkan
Committee On Political Education
COPE
Kirkland
Barkan
Executive Council
Nixon
United Steel Workers
Steel
I. W. Abel
Abel
Shanker
Jerry Wulf
It's A Free Country by Art Buchwald
In a satirical vignette, a CIA agent and an FBI agent invade a home probing mail and legality. A colonel from the Army tests residents with sugar cubes promising national defense, while the narrator questions constitutional rights and state power. The piece lampoons surveillance overreach and wartime bravado.
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