Contenders Need Meeting Ground on Wilderness Bill Debate
The Omnibus Eastern Wilderness Bill would protect about 15 000 acres in Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest and Slickrock Creek Wilderness from mining and logging. Sen. Helms threatens a courtesy veto to remove the areas, while Sen. Ervin signals support for protectionists and possible Senate floor changes. The piece argues for compromise between developers and conservationists to avoid economic and environmental collapse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Tennessee
Joyce Kilmer
Graham County
Sam Ervin
Sen
Helms
Ervin
Rufus Edmisten
Senate
Sierra Club
Sen. Helms
Eaton Plant Plans in North Carolina Meet Local Resistance
The Eaton Corp of Cleveland will build a new plant near Greenville in Pitt County, not Smithfield in Johnston County. The Smithfield Selma Chamber of Commerce rejected the project citing a desire for controlled growth, citing a tight labor market and higher wages would follow, despite Johnston County facing poverty and unemployment. The piece argues regional attitudes affect industrial wage levels and development nationwide.
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Eaton Corp. of
Cleveland
North Carolina
Greenville
Pitt County
Smithfield
Johnston County
Greater
Smithfield- Selma
Eaton Corp
Smithfield-Selma
Johnston
The
North
Piedmont
Eaton
Greenville- Anderson
South Carolina
Michelin Tire Company
South
Prolific Pets Spur Alarm Over U.S. Pet Boom
An HSUS based projection warns the U S pet population could reach 200 million by the mid 1980s as 14 puppies and kittens are born for every human birth. It cites 13.5 million pets euthanized last year and notes 75 percent of animal control costs go to killing and disposal.
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Humane Society of the United States
HSUS
America
Humane Society
Karl Nordling
U.S. Animal Control
Agnew Pressure Aided Maps Inc in Federal Deals
Vice President Spiro Agnew pressed a federal agency to award lucrative no bid mapping contracts to Maps Inc of Baltimore led by Thomas Collins a former county official. The agency granted two contracts totaling about 280 000 amid protest from competitors. The affair raises questions about influence and routine referrals at high government levels.
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United Features Syndicate
Washington
Spiro Agnew
Maryland
Maps, Inc
Baltimore
Thomas Collins
Collins
Redevelopment Land Agency
RLA
Agnew
Melvin Mister
Arthur Sohmer
Dundalk
Agnews
Tom
Ted
Judy
Lohmer
White House
FBI
Justice Department
Mags, Inc
Cold War tensions and unlikely NSA replacement talk
The piece weighs detente, United States leadership, and Soviet strategy with Chou En-lai as a hypothetical National Security Adviser. It critiques Washington’s stance, Harsch’s view on Yalta, and the shift from balanced to mutual reductions while noting Chou's sharp questions to Moscow about troop withdrawals and territorial debates.
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Chou En-lai
Henry Kissinger
Nixon
London Economist
United States
Soviet Union
Brezhnev
Europe
Yalta
Henry Jackson
George Meany
Moscow
Chou
Czechoslovakia
Mongolia
Kurile
Japan
China
Great Wall
Slaying A Tradition in American Politics and Ethics
An opinion piece contrasts cordial bipartisan rivalries with a harsher political arena now driven by TV and punitive tactics. It argues the Senate should expose airline campaign contributions honestly, warning that moral decline erodes long standing gentlemanly norms.
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Hiram Johnson
California
William Borah
Idaho
New York
Whitman and
Dewey
Colosseum
Senate
Democratic Senate
American Airlines
Page Boys
American
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Carolina Employment Security Commission
Crony
By Jack Anderson
Pentagon
Gulf of Mexico
Interior Department
Defense Department
Gulf
Florida
House Appropriations Committee
Interior
Rogers C. B. Morton
Defense
William P. Clemente Jr
Gulf Coast
Santa Barbara
Atlantic Seaboard
Red Army
Paris
Solzhenitsyn
Sakharov
Joseph C. Harsch
Christian Science Monitor
West
Kremlin
Pripet Marshes
River
Elbe
Vienna
Ernest Cuneo
North American Newspaper Alliance
Mike Mansfield
George Aiken
Vermont
Lyndon Johnson
Everett Dirksen
Big Jim Farley
Herbert Hoover
Dwight Eisenhower
Morever
Sam Rayburn
Joe Martin
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