Beneficiaries Feel No Pain in Campaign Cash Links
Washington column notes corporations admitted to large illegal campaign donations to a broad set of politicians, yet few faced legal consequences. It cites Watergate era disclosures, selective prosecutions, and a 1974 legal change that hindered investigations, highlighting guilty pleas by Wendell Wyatt and James R. Jones with minimal penalties.
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Martha Angle
Robert Walters
Washington
House
Senate
Nixon
Walter F. Mondale
Hubert H. Humphrey
Henry M. Jackson
Wilbur Mills
Daniel K. Inouye
Hawaii
Senate Intelligence Committee
Humphrey
Mills
Inouye
Congress
Watergate
Federal Power Commission
National Gas Survey
Speaking Freely Will Carter Have Secrets?
The CIA paid foreign leaders in secrecy for years with King Hussein's case spanning two decades. The public still debates benefits, risks, and the balance between national security and an informed electorate. President Carter ended Hussein payments and ordered a review, but public knowledge of such actions remains incomplete. The piece questions democracy's limits when facing espionage and state secrets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Oakley
Central Intelligence Agency
Hussein of
Jordan
Republic
Washington
CIA
Cult of Intelligence
Victor Marchetti
John D. Marks
State Department
United States
People’s Tribune
Ford
Carter
Hussein
Mystery accoster identified as 15 year old in Indiana
A 15 year old boy was named as the person behind Indiana's longstanding mystery accosting incidents. The report notes his pleasure in annoying women without plausible reason and marks a chilling local development in March 1952.
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Indiana
Indiana Legion
Richard W. Watson
IUP
Temple University
William G. Buchanan
Higher Education Committee
House of Representatives
Ghostwriter Paid by Taxpayers Ties Rhodes to Book Profits
Washington column details how Rep. John Rhodes used ghostwriter J Brian Smith to produce a hostile book about Speaker O Neill While Smith was paid by taxpayers Rhodes kept royalties and a stake in a public relations firm Raising questions about kickbacks and ethics under the old and new code It also covers Carter era advisory committees and a Senate panel finding 250 bodies advising on energy policy with heavy corporate representation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Anderson
Les Whitten
Washington
House
John Rhodes
Thomas P. O'Neill Jr
Rhodes
Tip O'Neill
O'Neill
O’neill
Massachusetts
J. Brian Smith
Smith
Smith and Harroff
Jimmy Carter
White House
Senate
Meany’s grip on AFL-CIO power tests Carter alliance
Victor Riesel examines George Meany’s enduring leadership at AFL-CIO, noting the boss’s influence over retirements, nominations, and labor reform bills. Carter’s White House talks reveal Meany’s leverage as the labor federation prepares a broad organizing drive and legal push, shaping the Democratic presidential year strategy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victor Riesel
Washington
George Meany
Afl-Ci
Jimmy Carter
Meany
White House
Carter
U.S
Afl-Cio
Bal Harbour
Fla
Executive Council
Labor
Council
New Jersey
Frank Thompson
House Labor Management Relations Subcommittee
House
National Union
Mr. Carter
Congress
Pennsylvania Avenue
Rose Garden
Meany and Company
Labor Confederation
Allan Kistler
Department of Organization and Field Services
Committee On Political Education
COPE
South
Atlanta
Samoa
South Pacific
Roots talk reveals tangled family myths and humor
A family scene turns on exaggerated ancestry claims as siblings argue over generations and names. The narrator notes Alex Haley’s restraint in Roots, praising his choice to avoid discussing lineage with his own relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Art Buchwald
Washington
Alex Haley
Haley
Gambia
Rare stamps worth half a million fit in a wallet
The world’s rarest post stamps could be valued at half a million dollars or more, yet the entire collection would fit in a man’s wallet. The 1850 Angers bridge disaster in France killed about 200 during a regiment passage.
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Angers
France
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R-Ore
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D-Okla
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Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Ravenna
Ohio
Babes
Asan
Indiana Evening Gazette
Water St
Indiana Printing & Publishing Company
Indiana, Pa
Ray
Lucilla KR
Frank B. Hood
Associated Press
Associated Prova
Wee
AP News
Carrier Boy
Iodiana
Armstrong
Cambria
Clearfield
Jefferson
Weatmoreland
Indana
Purchase Line
Exxon
Consolidated Edison
United Feature Syndicate
Tne
Government Employes
Clyde Webber
New American Federation of Government Employes
Kenneth Blaylock
Maritme Trades Department
Paul Hall
Abe Abel
Jim Housewright
Lane Kirkland
Public
Howie McClennan
New York State Federation of Labor
Franklin Roosevelt
Austria
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Galicia
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Are
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Molly
Oscar
Vienna
Hungary
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Arthur
David
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Thad
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