California taxes and crime cited in governor race analysis
California's political climate is critiqued as Governor Reagan and Assembly leader Jess Unruh trade broad goals in a year marked by rising crime and education-finance concerns. Both leaders seek the middle ground as they approach the November showdown, with emphasis on environment and consumer protection but limited specifics.
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Jess Unruh
Assembly
Unruh
California
Reagan
Inflation and Welfare Costs Debate in Letters to Editor
A reader criticizes biased reporting in an Independent Letters to Editor. The writer cites a California governor and anonymous officials regarding welfare after hours, urges freezing government wages to curb inflation, and links high government spending to unemployment and sluggish economy. Jang Beach
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Govenor
California
Gov
Reagan
Brown
Independent
Hinds Welfare
Spiro Agnew
Thanks from Vienam Editor Press-Telegram readers
A Vietnam era letter from an editor in Vietnam thanks Long Beach residents for sending more than 60 cards. He notes he cannot reply to all and asks the paper to thank all contributors, praising the paper for listing service members' names and addresses and mentioning cards from as far as New Jersey.
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Long Beach
Press-Telegram
New Jersey
Nixon doctrine shift adds emphasis on Asian defense
Vice President Agnew signals a new dimension to U.S. Far East policy by stressing a stronger Asian role in defense while the United States reduces its presence. He frames this as honoring treaties and boosting local effort, not incompatible with a lighter U.S. footprint.
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Washington
Agnew
Far East
U.S
Nixon doctrine limits in Asia and future U.S. roles
The discussion weighs Nixon and Agnew’s Asia trips against the idea of a restrained U.S. role after Vietnam. It argues that no fixed doctrine guarantees future noninvolvement, noting Formosa and Taiwan commitments, U.S. prestige, and leadership as factors shaping intervention.
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Nixon
Asia
Vietnam
Far Pacific
Koreas
Books on labor unions and Ford biographies review
The column reviews Labor on the March by Gardner and editors of American Heritage, noting its depiction of 1840s Lowell mills and worker gains. It also scores An Unconventional Biography of the Men and Their Times by Boston Herndon, highlighting Ford management eras and postwar losses. A third item, Message from Moscow by Ryan, critiques Stalinism and its modern variants with anonymous author sources and a historian's wife quote.
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America
Joseph L. Gardner
American Heritage
American Heritage Publ. Co
Lowell
Mass
Ford
Boston Herndon
Weybright and Talley
Henry Fords
Mana
Moscow
Ryan
Observer
Knopf
Loyalty oath dies in wake of Stewart Washington ruling
The U S Civil Service Commission moved to revise the appointment affidavits after a 2 to 1 federal court ruling in Stewart vs Washington found the loyalty oath statute unconstitutional. The ruling prompted a pamphlet to heads of departments, yet officials say the change was not widely publicized, leaving about 75,000 new hires with oath papers. The DC school teacher Mrs Homa Stewart challenged the oath, aided by the ACLU, asserting unconstitutionality and conscience concerns.
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Washington
Civil Service Commission
Homa Stewart
Stewart
District of Columbia
American Civil Liberties Union
J. Skelly Wright
Harold Leventhal
U.S. Court of Appeals
John Lewis Smith Jr
Walter E. Washington
Corporation Counsel
The
Anthony Mondella
Mondelin
Commission
Supreme Court
Federal Personnel Manual
Predictions for the Seventies from Look Magazine
Look Magazine presents provocative forecasts for the 1970s including Gloria Steinem backing a woman president in 1976 and William Buckley proposing a black president by 1990. Other ideas include replacing a single president with a seven member group, with cautions that predictions mix fantasy with realism.
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SAN Clements
UPI
Nixon
Gloria Steinem
William F. Buckley Jr
Look Magazine
Pollution as a national drive in the early 1970s
Merriman Smith argues pollution could become a major national campaign issue by 1972 and 1976 as environmental threats grow beyond mere deterrence. He notes limited public concern and congressional inattention, urging presidential action within constraints of state and local powers to curb air and water pollutants and linked industrial development.
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Paign
Nixon
Hubert J. Humphrey
House
Senate
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Vienam
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Tellin
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Formosa
Republic of China
Peking
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United States
China
Ernie Breech
Tex Thornton
Robert McNamara
Ford’s
Uss
Loyalty Pledge
Richard D. Lyons
New York Times News Service
Poe
Merriman Smith
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