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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1971
Page
5
The piece urges California to test a four day work week for state employees, noting gains in productivity and lower absenteeism in private and pilot programs. It supports Assemblyman Cullen’s bill to empower the governor to enact a four day week in any department as an experiment for state employees.
Secretary of State Rog ers calls for international guarantees of Israel's security while urging realistic boundary changes. The piece argues the U S should back strong defenses and frontiers where Israel can take the lead, avoid large territorial claims, and work quietly to support Israel without provoking Soviet involvement.
Editors note a rising recurrent story of executives quitting high paying jobs to grow organic foods in Maine. They examine motives from the rat race to urban ills and ask if this signals maturity or a serious corporate concern about maintaining originality and engagement in an impersonal, bureaucratic system.
A reading roundup reviews American Violence a Documentary History edited by Hofstadter and Wallace Vintage 32.95. It surveys political economic racial religious anti radical police and personal violence including assassinations and terrorism in America. The Making of a Surgeon by William A Nolen M D Random House 6.95 recounts hospital life at Bellevue and how nurses aid surgeons and handle patient death. The Long Boat West A Journey in History by Frank Morley Dial 7.95 traces the western spread of ideas from the Mediterranean to California and describes the quest for the birth of the western mind.
The Nixon administration pursues pragmatic solutions in welfare reform legal services for the poor and a national health insurance plan amid Democratic control. Reagan Kennedy and other rivals feature in the debate as Nixon re-submits OEO programs and liberals push non-profit legal aid while debates over welfare endure without decisive action.
The article describes how Elliott Richardson and undersecretary Veneman craft a welfare reform strategy as a tool to influence Reagan’s proposals. It notes belief inside the administration that neither Reagan nor opponents have a viable reform bill ready for Congress. It discusses political maneuvering with Mills in the House and Long in the Senate as the hurdles to welfare reform unfold.
Frances Knight, longtime director of the U S Passport Office, contends with increased workloads and a new post office related system while clashing with State Department superiors. She contemplates retirement but presses on, guided by a stubborn motto as she seeks recognition and a pay raise.
The New York Times attacked a 243000 name lookout file used by the Passport Office, calling it snipe material for snoopers. The system is longstanding and simply flags names from courts and agencies for administrative review, not maintaining dossiers.
A Paramount mother on aid describes rising rents after a landlord raises $25 monthly to cover higher taxes. She notes vacant boarded houses bought by highways division and asks why they cannot be rented to ease low income housing. She also urges prioritizing California teachers over out of state recruitment due to unemployment and credential costs.
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