ACTION LINE answers on Nixon golf cart question
Readers ask about Nixon’s San Clemente transport and learn his favorite Cushman Town and Country electric golf cart. The 36 volt cart with canopy and lights sells for 1935 at Cushman Motor Sales in Santa Fe Springs, with a dealer noting a dozen carts bought for the President Secret Service staff.
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Santa Fe Springs
Secret Service
Insurance inducement by savings and loan questioned
A reader asks if it is legal for a savings and loan to push a borrower to insure with the association or its chosen agent. Keith Fong, senior examiner for the California Savings and Loan Commissioner, says associations may not make coverage mandatory and must clearly state that borrowers may use any insurer that meets their requirements.
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Los Angeles
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Andrews Sisters and Cadmus Items City Inquiries
The reader asks which Andrews Sister died in 1967 and learns LaVerne Andrews passed away that year due to cancer. Also details Paul Cadmus now in New York and represented by Midtown Galleries with recent shows and a museum book.
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New York
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Cadmus
Brooklyn Museum
Dubcek Ousted in Prague Purge of Communist Leadership
In Prague a major overhaul ousted Alexander Dubcek from the party Presidium as pro Soviet leadership moves purge the top ranks. The purge list also removes 29 backers of Dubcek from the Central Committee amid cabinet shakeups and a formal blame on the 1968 reforms for the Soviet invasion. Gustav Husak pledges action across Czechoslovak life while Svoboda and Cernik rise as top officials. Dubcek remains in the Central Committee but loses parliament leadership posts.
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Gustav Husak
Svoboda
Oldrich Cernik
Josef Smrkovsky
California Voters Favor Reagan but Show Slipping Support
The State Poll finds a majority of Californians hold Reagan in favorable regard though enthusiasm wanes from early 1969. In a 1,005 person in home survey on Aug 22 23 1969 respondents rate Reagan with 68 percent favorable overall and show party splits with Republicans strongly positive and Democrats mostly negative.
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Ronald Reagan
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Nixon
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Kiesinger Leads No Majority In West German Vote
In Bonn and across West Germany the two main parties failed to win a parliamentary majority. Kiesinger’s Christian Democrats held 242 seats while Brandt’s Social Democrats had 224, with the Free Democrats at 30. The NPD failed to cross 5 percent.
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UPI
Kurt Georg Kiesinger
Willy Brandt
Kiesinger
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West Germany
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Social Democrats
West Berlin
Free Democratic Party
Hannover
von Thadden
Operation Intercept Border Searches Draw Complaints
During a week long border crackdown 2.38 million travelers were checked at stations with 1,824 subject to personal searches. Four arrests for resisting searches and 405 seizures followed while the Mexican vice consul protested after being stopped.
Thieu Hints At A Arms Or U S Nuclear Shield
President Thieu of South Vietnam appeared to suggest in an interview that Saigon should receive atomic weapons. State Department sources said no official request existed and the United States remains committed to the nuclear treaty. The interviewer said Thieu’s words may have been misunderstood and that Thieu did not seek nuclear weapons.
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South Vietnam
Thieu
State Department
Saigon
U.S
Frank Reynolds
AEC cites seismic hints of possible China and Soviet underground tests
The Atomic Energy Commission reported seismic signals that may indicate underground nuclear tests in China near the Tien Shan and Lop Nor area and in the Volgograd region of the Soviet Union. Signals correspond to low intermediate yields and follow earlier atmospheric tests. China may have conducted its first underground test.
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Atomic Energy Commission
Red China
Soviet Union
AEC
China
Tien Shan
Lop Nor
Sinkiang
Taxpayer Sends 25 Cents to IRS With Note on Quarterly Payment
A new taxpayer mailed 25 cents to the Internal Revenue Department accompanied by a note stating he understands taxes can be paid by the quarter.
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Internal Revenue Department
Survey shows white middle class pessimism about country
Dean Acheson asserts the Pentagon misled him about the Vietnam war. The piece notes a survey indicating pessimism among white middle income Americans about the nation’s direction.
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