Tax Aid for Bus Lines This Year
State senators and backers push to exempt urban bus systems from a seven cent per gallon diesel fuel tax. Proposals mirror last year’s assembly bill, but transportation leader Sen. Randolph Collier stalled it. Estimated statewide loss is 2.3 million annually, with Long Beach Public Transportation Co. set to gain about 62000. League of California Cities supports the effort.
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James R. Mills
San Diego
Senate
Mills
Assembly
James A. Hayes
Long Beach
Randolph Collier
D-Yreka
Transportation Committee
Hayes
Collier
Sen. Mills
Long Beach Public Transportation Co
League of California
Fulbright warns against US USSR intelligence exchange
Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Fulbright criticized a proposal to exchange intelligence between the United States and Russia as impractical and dangerous. He warned that such a move could unravel covert defense secrets and provoke domestic and Soviet backlash. He favored a full Pueblo seizure report but urged caution to protect U.S. intelligence operations.
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J. William Fulbright
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United States
Russia
Fulbright
U.S
Soviet Union
Ussr
Pueblo
Mike Mansfield
Town Meeting Questions Dope Figures
Letters and commentary question the accuracy of narcotics usage statistics cited by attorney Philip E. Poppler at a city council appearance. He claimed high drug usage among Wilson High School students based on unclear estimates. Readers challenge sources, definitions, and the interview method used to support such figures.
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Philip E. Poppler
Poppler
Wilson High School
W. Odie Wright
Mansell
Wilson
Hanoi Drive Narrows Our Viet Options
In the altered Vietnam war course public figures in the United States have not addressed some consequences. New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy and other war critics have sharply criticized the Johnson administration for presenting an overly favorable view of a worsening conflict.
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Washington
Nea
United States
New York
Robert F. Kennedy
Johnson
Deep Communist Incursions Reshape Vietnam War Outlook
Bruce Biassot warns that Viet Cong and Hanoi offensives have shattered the enclave withdrawal theory and weakened U.S. bargaining leverage. He argues that continued Viet Cong pressure near Khe Sanh and Saigon increases the risk of a coalition government dominated by Communists if negotiations begin, suggesting a potential shift to broader military action or withdrawal.
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Vietnam
Saigon
Hue
U.S
Viet Cong
Hanoi
Feiw
Southeast Asia
Venezuela shifts sugar quota policy in lobbyist-free move
Venezuela adopted a new approach to raising its sugar quota by dispensing with lobbyists. The shift contrasts with past practice under Rep. Harold Cooley, who as House Agriculture Committee chair favored hiring lobbyist friends to push quota increases.
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Washington
Venezuela
Harold Cooley
D-N.c
House Agriculture Committee
Charles Patrick Clark
Cooley
Congress
Bob Poage
Texas
Venezuela sugar quota push through Congress inquiry
A Venezuelan delegation urged a 75 000 ton sugar quota rise, later stating a 24 000 ton base with a 100 000 ton surplus. Rep Bob Poage questioned justification, while Ambassador Tejera-Paris cited reform and U S sales. The note adds such quotas can be raised by executive decree without Congress.
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Venezuelan Congress
Washington
Poage
Texas
Venezuela
Congress
Rup. Poage
Fsicia Gonzales
Small Farmers Union
United States
Alliance For Progress
Fabio
Enrique Tejera-Paris
U.S
Tejera-Paris
A Guideline for Thinking of Dissent
Washington column argues for a measured approach to mass demonstrations if prophecies prove true. It stresses ethics legality and practicality over spontaneous emotion and invites broader circulation of the guidance.
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Washington
Civil disobedience ethics in king plan debated
The Washington Post editorialized on Feb 7 about Dr Martin Luther King Jr escalating nonviolence to civil disobedience in a spring Washington campaign possibly spreading to Chicago. J R Wiggins expanded the idea in a speech outlining eight conditions for acceptable civil disobedience and a code for limits on protests including antiwar actions.
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Martin Luther King
Washington
Chicago
Washington Post
The
Post
J. R. Wiggins
South
King
The Revolutionary War by Bart McDowell National Geographic Society
National Geographic Society releases The Revolutionary War by Bart McDowell at $4.25. The book chronicles seven years of the conflict through the author's travels to key sites from Mount Vernon to Valley Forge and Charleston with about 200 illustrations and maps.
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Bart McDowell
National Geographic Society
National Geographic Staff
America
Mount Vernon
Williamsburg
Philadelphia
Quebec
Marion
Washington
Valley Forge
Charleston
New Republic
McDowell
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Drew Pearson
Belmont Shopping Center
Paul Cook
Redondo Ave
Mary Seward
Ave
Pamela Stafford
Florida St
William Guarino
Temple Ave
Jean Willis
23Rd St
Gene Cain
W. 52Nd St
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