Senate failure blocks $3.5 billion California water plan
Editorial condemns the State Senate for rejecting Gov. Browns $3.5 billion drought relief and water system plan, noting 16 senators voted against it and a two thirds majority was required. It warns of future water shortages, higher costs, and urges January action to remedy the failure.
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California
State Senate
Brown
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
San Francisco Bay
Ruben S. Ayala
D-San Bernardino
The
Sierra Club
Delta
San Joaquin Valley
Class of 41 G pilots reunite at Queensway Hilton
About 150 members of class 41 G gather for a four day reunion marking 31 years since winging at Barksdale Brooks Kelly Craig Maxwell Luke Stockton and Mather fields. The AAC flying class 41 G formed with 1000 graduates at eight fields.
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U.S. Army Air Corps
Barksdale Field
Brooks and Kelly Fields
Texas
Craig and Maxwell Fields
Ala
Luke Field
Ariz
Stockton and Mather Fields
Cal
AAC
Pearl Harbor
Queensway Hilton
Washington
D.C
Pentagon
Mobile
Long Beach
Truth squads dog Carter on canal treaty battle
The Carter Administration campaigns for the Panama Canal treaties with "truth squads" following the president. Critics compare the fight to Wilson's League of Nations battle, citing Strom Thurmond Jesse Helms and Ronald Reagan as coalition leaders in a high stakes political clash.
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Carter
Ronald Reagan
Strom Thurmond
Jesse Helms
Carolinas
Our Fathers
Ronald Reaton
Henry Cabot Lodge
William F. Borah
Robert la Follette
Woodrow Wilson
League of Nations
Wilson
Paris
League’ of Nations
Hig
League
Crats
Canal
Jimmy Carter
Kane
Gress
Ford
Roosevelt
Straig
Panama
Sel Oser
Wilsons 1919 fight over the treaty and a historic misstep
The article recalls President Wilson collapsing from arteriosclerosis on September 25, 1919, during Senate battles over the Versailles and Panama treaties. It contrasts 1919 partisan divides with today's Democratic majority, noting Wilson’s insistence on fighting for treaty principles against concessions and the enduring controversy over secret negotiations and opposition from Lodge.
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Rhine
England
Wilson
Pueblo
Caloz
Senate
Lodge
Cope land Principle eyed to curb misuses in federal cases
Federal legal opinion argues for a Copeland Principle to hold government lawyers liable when courts find malicious or frivolous actions. The piece cites Judge Pratt’s ruling against Barbara Copeland of the CSA and critiques broad governmental immunity for prosecutorial conduct across EEOC and other agencies.
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Washington
Barbara Copeland
Consumer Services Administration
Pratt
Copeland
Consumer Products Safety Commission
CPSC
Commission
EEOC
KGB tried payoffs and entrapment scheme against Estonian dissident
The report details a 1975 KGB bid to buy loyalty from Estonian dissident Erick Adam with up to half a million dollars to create a front for anti-Soviet activism. It describes staged harassment, bugging, and meetings in Tallinn, Helsinki monitors, and U.S. funding pressure, with Adam ultimately rejecting the plan. The piece links the case to broader Soviet repression and efforts to subdue dissidents.
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Washington
Kremlin
KGB
Erick Adam
Yuri Andropov
Odam
Estonia
Hox
Tallin
Adam
Helsinki
Moscow
Yuri Orlov
Finland
London
Financial Times
David Satter
Riga-Tallin
Satter
Anatoli Scharans
Alexander
Lipans
Belgrade
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Untouchables
James
Assables
Rober Novak
Rowland [Evans
Daniel H. Ridder
Edior and Publisher
Samuel C. Cameron
David Levinson
Bert Resnik
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