Editorial by Liter E Sines and Stelisg Bemis
Executive Editor Liter E Sines and Managing Editor Stelisg Bemis lead the editorial column. The piece outlines newsroom leadership and the journalistic mission guiding the publication.
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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1968
Page
5
Firm Honest Viet Leaders a Necessity
Pulitzer winner Halberstam returns to South Vietnam and finds pervasive corruption in both military and civilian sectors. He cites Cao Van Vien and wife, border district chiefs, and province chiefs profiting from land, construction, smuggling, and rents to Americans. Kennedy criticizes outright thievery. reform clear but hard. Emphasizes honest native leadership, notably Gen Nguyen Duc Thang, as essential for stability and U.S. exit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Halberstam
South Vietnam
Harper's Magazine
Halberstam
Thieu
Cao van Vien
Madame Vien
Edward M. Kennedy
Dmass
Vietnam
Kennedy
North Vietnam
Nguyen Duc Thang
Revolutionary Development
Weinberger a Real Pro Weinberger a Real Pro
Californians including Reagan supporters note the governor needs professional competence. He names Casper W Cap Weinberger as state director of finance. A three term assemblyman in the 1950s Weinberger proved his grasp of government and its operations. He chairs committees and hosts public affairs programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weinberger
California
Long Beach
Sacramento
Tidelands
Town Meeting Sparks Letters on Family Addiction and Politics
Readers rail against dope addicts families facing hardship and urge acceptance and realism rather than martyrdom. A second letter denounces tirades against Governor Reagan, praising honest officials amid political envy and hypocrisy.
To Go or Not That's Question on Draft Resistance
New Haven from the Times News Service examines youth attitudes toward draft resistance at Yale led by Chaplain William Sloane Coffin. The piece contrasts wartime mobilization waves across generations and argues policy wars may suit professionals, not draftees, citing World War II and Vietnam era dynamics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven. Conn
Yale
William Sloane Coffin
Trenton
Washington
Delaware
Saigon
Rights Are for Everyone Everyday Mess We In
Readers express daily concern about the state of rights as they see it. They are disturbed when it touches their own lives, and the letters reveal that personal impact drives the sense of a larger mess discussed in the column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ife
Reagan
Brown
Unruh
Tts
Long Beach
Rights and duty clash in a call for communal justice
Sydney Harris argues that modern protests reveal a failure to honor universal rights. He decries narrow self interest, warns that partial claims foster social injustice, and urges a community driven by universal rights and shared responsibility rather than self protection. Only then can true democracy and Christian ethics prevail.
Industry Lax in Telling of Drug Danger
Washington testimony will spotlight industry failure to warn doctors about untried and dangerous drugs. A preliminary probe shows physicians rely largely on the drug industry for information, with doctors receiving scant independent safety guidance before prescribing new medicines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Subcommittee
Drug chloromycetin ads debated by Senate subcommittee
Senator Nelson accuses Parke Davis of over advertising chloromycetin while under warning, citing cases of injury and death. He notes 1961 sales near 59 million dollars and 4 million yearly prescriptions, urging strict, limited use and warnings across markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sen
Gay
Lord Nelson
D-Wis
Nelson
Parke, Davis and Company
Park Davis
Parke Davis
Sen. Nelson
United States
Uatry J. Loynd
Carney Love
Palo Alto
Calif
Love
Edgar F. Elfstrom
Fullerton Calif
News-Tribune
Senate
Leslie Iueck
British Medical Journal
Lueck
Wisconsin
Great Britain
Dr. Lueck
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