Not Just War of Words In Cold War Policy
The United States moves beyond rhetoric as it revokes a 1.5 million export license for machine tools to the Soviet Union. Experts warn shipping tools that craft ball bearings for missiles aids Soviet weapons and space programs. The piece criticizes Castro’s Cuba earning 75 million annually from tobacco and other imports, arguing such revenue funds regional revolutionary efforts. The editorial calls the cold war a total struggle beyond armed conflict.
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U.S
Soviet Union
Castro
Cuba
Latin America
Vickers Dinner Honors Departing City Manager Sam Vickers
Civic leaders will honor departing City Manager Sam Vickers with a testimonial dinner Thursday night. He leaves of his own free will for a higher salary elsewhere, and community leaders plan a sincere, strong send off as a final major public farewell.
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Sam Vickers
Rejected Measure Revived in State Legislature
At least two measures seek to extend California Assembly terms from two to four years. The plan, requiring a constitutional amendment, was rejected by voters last November by about 800 000 ballots. Proponents urge public education and campaign reform to pass it again, noting longer terms would ease the campaign burden and improve governance.
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California
Long Beach
Sacramento
Assembly
Sen. Neuberger
Qme
Mrs. Neuberger
Man Looking for a Job by Former Vice President Nixon
Nixon signals a job search while recalling a satirical film about Washington politics. The piece notes a senator’s limit as a sole role with 100 such posts, suggesting Nixon may need marketable skills beyond being vice president, given narrow job prospects.
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Richard Nixon
William Powell
Washington
Rusk Memo Urges Defense Build Up Against Local Attacks
Secretary Rusk’s position paper on future defense stresses reinforcing conventional forces and guerrilla warfare units to deter localized attacks in Korea and Indochina while maintaining a nuclear deterrent. It argues Washington expects Khrushchev to avoid broad nuclear conflict, focuses on allied unity, and warns of subversive tactics to split NATO and the UN.
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Dean Rusk
Nikita Khrushchev
Western Alliance
United States Sec
Rusk
Tucker
Capital Hill
Aly
McNamara
Kennedy
White House
Allen Dulles
Llewellyn Thompson
Moscow
Presdent Kennedy
TNE
Ruse Mento
United States
Russia
Sec. Rusk
The Independent News Office Contact Details
The Independent maintains offices at 68 Fifth Avenue New York Chicago Wrigley Building and Munichonllt 202 Foster Tower in Los Angeles 9242 W. Bin St San Francisco V0 Sutter Washington News Bureau and an Albany Building Terracida address. Staff roles include executive editor managing editor page editor and advertising representatives with Ridder Dobre Inc listed.
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Dane H. Ridge
Parold M. Hines
Asai
Samuel C. Cameron Geni
Larry Gallina Jr
Bua
Loa Golins
Cross-Examining Paterson Aide Meriwether Draws Senate Fire
DREW PEARSON reports on Senators Javits Proxmire and Maurine Neuberger grilling Gov Patterson aide and Export Import Bank nominee Meriwether over ties to the Ku Klux Klan and a $1.6 million tire contract. Neuberger questions banking qualifications while Dirksen riffs with Johnson at a White House luncheon. Senate action later passes the judgeship bill amid partisan tensions.
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Washington
Charlie Meriwether
John Patterson
Export-Import Bank
Javits
N.Y
Proxmire
Wis
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
Ku Klux Klan
Robert Shelton
Meriwether
Patterson
Maurine Neuberger
Oregon
White House
GOP
Everett Dirksen
Mlingis
Lyndon Johnson
Senate
Lyndon
Dirkaen
Vail
Dirksen
Senate Ignores Brown on Taxes in California
In Sacramento the California Senate defeats AB 527, moving to tax imports despite Gov. Brown’s warnings. Senator Waldie’s measure would impose a local tax on imported stock for processing, with a final vote of 18 ayes to 16 noes after absences and illness.
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Sacramento
CNS
California State Senate
Edmund G. Brown
California
Senate
Jerome J. Waldie
Antioch
United States
U. S
United States Supreme Court
Louisiana
Washington
Waldirfs
Waldie
Legislaure
Donald Grungky
Santa Cruz
Strictly Personal Pressures and Double Standards
A compact critique of double standards in language and behavior across gender politics, family life, lawyering, media, and social hierarchies. It contrasts how praise and blame hinge on in-group status, wealth, or appearance, noting affectionate vs harsh labeling and the ease of condemning others. It includes jabs at private schooling, weight description, and public speaking norms.
Naples public land under threat for bayfront apartments
A reader protest criticizes a proposed vacating of Toledo Street end near the Belmont Shore Library for a 62 unit Edgeware Estates apartment project with a seawall and 25 boat slips. The note argues the public owns much of the bay land, cites state tideland rights, and urges the March 7 council hearing to reject the plan.
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Alamitos Bay
Tideland Trust
Long Beach
Toledo
C. L. McFaddin
Tivoli
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