Movement to lower voting age gains broad support
The piece argues for lowering the voting age to 18, noting wide backing from President Nixon, senators, governors, and a 1966 poll. It urges Congress to act first by law, then test constitutionality, while acknowledging a constitutional amendment could be pursued if needed. It calls for House and Senate to extend the franchise to 18 to 31.
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Nixon
House of Representatives
Senate
Congress
Burning a ROTC building and assault at Long Beach library
A columnist argues that student vandalism at Yale Law School Indiana University UC Berkeley and California State College Long Beach targets symbols of learning. Burning a statue or library destruction is condemned as an attack on ideas and education, not a protest.
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Yale Law School
Indiana University
University of California At Berkeley
California State College At
Long Beach
Long Beach General
African Animals Camera Safari book note
AFRICAN ANIMALS A Camera Safari by Yukio Togawa Kodansha International USA $1.95 paperback features ninety five color plates by a Japanese photographer who faced dangers in Kenya Uganda and Tanzania. YESTERDAY'S PEOPLE Life in ccopiaanTA Appalachia by Jack Weller University Press of Ken yi $4.76 cloth $1.75 paperback describes southern Appalachia and its away from materialism. MEN IN DARK TIMES by Hannah Arendt Harcourt Brace and World Harvest Books $2.45 paperback profiles Rosa Luxemburg Pope John XXII Karl Jaspers Isak Dinesen Herman Broch Walter Benjamin Waldemar Gurian Bertolt Brecht and Randolph Jarrell as illuminaries of a dark century.
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Yukio Togawa
Kodansha International USA
Kenya
Uganda
Tanzania
Ccopiaanta Appalachia
Jack Weller
University Press of
Kenyi
Appalachians
Arthor Weller
Hans Aah Arendt
Harcourt, Brace and World
Harvest
Dr. Arendt
Rosa Luxemburg
John XXII
Karl Jaspers
Isak Dinesen
Herman Broch
Walter Benjamin
Waldemar Gurian
Bertolt Brecht
Randolph Jarrell
Editorial Letters on Pollution and Global Struggles
Readers debate government influence, social policy, and national strength. Letters critique government overreach from school bus policies to currency backing, praise nursing and paramedical roles, and warn of Cold War era domino theory with Cambodia and free nations’ fates. Strong voices include Arthur Guy and references to France, Fulbright, and Southeast Asia.
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Free World
United States
France
England
West Germany
Canada
Australia
Cambodia
Southeast Asia
Fulbright
Nixon theories behind Cambodia invasion explained
Washington analysts summarize three Nixon ideas on countering Communists and the Soviet Union. Unpredictability and decisive moves are praised as tactics, but critics note reliance on secrecy and potential misreads of Moscow. The piece weighs risks and historical context, including Kennedy and Khrushchev dynamics.
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Cambodia
Soviet Union
Moscow
Kennedy
Cuba
Bay of Pigs
Castro
Johnson
Congress
Kremlin
United States
Czechoslovakia
Berlin
Europe
Khrushchev
Notes of a traveler in 1970 AIRBORNE U S A
Vivid vignettes from a traveler in 1970 noting unrest around Kent State and Vietnam era tension. At New Orleans airport Guardsmen and students are described with tense expressions while others in Cambodia recount refusing orders before combat. Passengers watch violence on TV and families feel uneasy.
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New Orleans
National Guardsmen
Kent University
Fragmented recollections from Flora Lewis interview on war and civil rights
An interview with Flora Lewis reveals views on treason and patriotism, Ike planning college graduation, and job prospects in Houston. The narrative recalls a Vietnam era debate, a hotel bomb scare in Austin, a civil rights observer volunteer, and shifting Alabama political imagery near Jefferson Davis’s Capitol with a wilting tulip as a somber emblem.
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Ike
Aip
Atlanta
Houston
Aclu
Pye
Jefferson Davis
Montgomery
Lurleen Wallace
Wpa
Alabama
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