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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1972
Page
15
The piece argues the current state primary system, despite flaws and boredom, preserves democracy by slowing decisions to allow issues and candidate personalities to mature. It warns a national primary would be efficient and decisive but dangerous, risking rash conclusions and loss of thoughtful reassessment.
The guilty pleas of Clifford Irving and his wife end a lengthy McGraw-Hill fraud saga over a faked Howard Hughes autobiography. The affair exposed manuscript excerpts from James Phelan, who wrote Hughes material, and even influenced how the fraud was perceived in Time magazine coverage. Phelan considers writing a book on investigative reporting as media figures await more pages of the Hughes saga.
Opinion pieces warn of dangerous gaps in air safety as private pilots escape robust testing. Current federal rules let inactive pilots resume flight after a physical exam, sometimes with only five solo takeoffs and landings in recent memory, prompting calls from the Transportation Department to close these shortcuts.
The article notes two sensible recommendations after a 1933 change in the aviation system. It calls for periodic proficiency tests for private pilots and stricter certification of flight schools and instructors. It then poses a rhetorical objection to these requirements.
State Supreme Court Justice George Postel presides over Brooklyn mobster Carmine Persico’s extortion trial and bans reporting on his police record and criminal role to protect jurors. Reporters challenge the ruling as violating the First Amendment with a “Pastor's law” justification.
A Soviet UN official Evgeny Chossudovsky urges a United Nations decade of peaceful coexistence and a new European security system. He favors broad bilateral and multilateral cooperation in trade health and environment and gradual socialization of production with compensation to former owners. He warns the West that the plan risks its own demise but stresses feasible orderly reform and aims to reduce arms race burdens. He notes gaps on trust and mutual confidence amid Western media portrayals and U.S. imperialism fears.
Washington reports recall Rep Craig Hosmer pressuring President Kennedy to honor campaign promises on women’s access to White House Correspondents Association dinners. Kennedy’s reaction shifted policy, allowing women reporters to attend. The piece notes ongoing gender restrictions at WHCA and Gridiron Club events, listing key figures and responses from Nixon era officials and lawmakers.
A reader thanks George Robeson Stan Leppard and numerous reporters for their coverage and fundraising efforts after a Feb 1971 car fire rescue. The piece credits Sears Roebuck police and fire departments, local officials, and the Independent Press Telegram for medical bills paid, awards received, and ongoing support amid a life-threatening incident.
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