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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1968
Page
9
The People’s right to know how public business is done is essential. Assemblyman James A. Hayes advocates AB 202 to require open meetings for county or city advisory bodies using tax funds, expanding Brown Act coverage to all boards and commissions created by charter or official action.
The United Nations’s Commission on Human Rights erased most of Ambassador Arthur Goldberg's protest against Soviet repression of writers. By a 10 to 8 vote, the commission deleted the core of his complaint about imprisonment for dissent. The piece argues a double standard allows Soviet criticism of the U.S. while stifling its own, claiming 1984 is already present in the USSR.
A reader editorial laments private railroad ownership hindering passenger service and urges government control to restore decent, affordable rail travel.Letters discuss Vietnam policy and the need for a presidential plan, plus questions about marijuana laws and enforcement.
A New York Times style note argues the two price system for gold is a shortsighted stopgap likely to cause more problems than it solves. It cites President Johnson’s pledge to keep the $35 per ounce price and Federal Reserve Chairman McChesney Martin’s similar commitment, signaling policy tension.
Henry Hazlitt argues the 1961 to 1963 gold pool by Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Britain and the United States collapses the dollar’s gold parity. Private demand drove gold to premium levels, prompting a move to free market prices and a two price system that undermines dollar convertibility.
In a Tuesday How ard University speech Senator McCarthy questions Johnson's handling of the Vietnam crisis and war costs arguing America cannot be a world policeman. Senator Kennedy faces scrutiny over divisive policies while promising a critical review of the administration.
The piece weighs the rift between Sen. Robert Kennedy and President Johnson on Vietnam. It notes Kennedy cannot prove his brother would have acted differently and cites the 1963 Diem regime’s collapse as a disaster.
A compact reflection contrasts mourning for a departed friend with sorrow for the living who must continue. Quoted lines by Jeremiah 22 10 and Jean Paul Richter frame death as a passage to another realm, urging a somber perspective on loss and memory.
The Kennedy circle conducts a wave of outreach with calls and visits aimed at eroding leadership. targets include governors such as Warren E. Heames of Missouri and Harold Hughes of Iowa, among others, as Bobby Kennedy tightens public pressure.
Local readers across Brooklyn Queens Nassau and The Bronx report intense pressure to back Kennedy in the New York presidential contest. Stanley Steingut Henry McDonough Frank Rossetti Moe Weinstein and others face persuasion and threats as Kennedy aims to control the New York delegation and block Johnson. Bobby Kennedy shows no signs of easing the tactic.
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