Social Security age rise sparks GOP backlash
Washington analysis argues that proposing to raise full benefits eligibility from 65 to 68 shows Republican insensitivity to majority demand for security. The piece cites Packwood and Rhodes aides, contrasts Democratic caution, and recalls FDR’s New Deal era stability guiding the system’s popularity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha Angle
Robert Walters
Washington
House
Republican
John J. Rhodes
GOP
Ways and Means Committee
Bill Brock
Senate
Howard H. Baker Jr
R-Tenn
Sen
Robert Packwood
Ore
Franklin de
Lano Roosevelt
Rhodes & Co
Sen. Packwood
Oregon
Packwood
Roosevelt
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
The Overdrafts and The Lances
Art Buchwald comments on Bert Lance hearings focusing on overdrafts by Lance and family at Calhoun National Bank. He parodies President Carter and the bank’s stance, imagining a domestic scenario where overdrafts reveal broader attitudes toward money, responsibility, and banking practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Art Buchwald
Washington
Bert Lance
Calhoun National Bank
Lance
Carter
United States
Office of Management and Budget
Bert Bance
Comptroller's
LaBelle
Titanic Sinking and Historical Milestones Summary
The Titanic sank on April 14 1912 with 30 percent of 534 women and children and 80 percent of 1667 men losing their lives. The United Church of Canada formed in 1925 by union of three denominations. Rodrigo de Triana was first to sight the Americas on October 12 1492 and Columbus landed at San Salvador, likely Watling Island in the Bahamas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
United Church of Canada
Presbyterian, Methodist and
Congregational Churches
Canada
Rodrigo de Triana
Columbus
Land of the Americas
San Salvador
Watling Island
Bahamas
Full Employment Bill May Pass On Capitol Hill
Washington coverage notes Sen. Hubert Humphrey's terminal cancer and cheerful hospital visits as he and Rep. Augustus Hawkins push a Humphrey Hawkins full employment bill. White House figures, Carter aides, and economic advisers discuss goals, funding, and conflicts including unemployment targets, federal reserve oversight, and potential inflation risk. The piece also previews a Carter leadership push and mentions Milton Handler's anticipated antitrust study role.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Anderson
Les Whitten
Washington
Hubert Humphrey
D-Minn
Happy Warrior
Hubert
Congress
Capitol Hill
Humphrey
Augustus Hawkins
D-Calif
Humphrey-Hawkins
Jimmy Carter
Hawking
Ray Marshall
Stuart Eisenstat
Charles Shultze
Hawkins
Federal Reserve Board
Fed
Arthur Burns
Carter
White House
Milton Handler
Griffin Bell
Handler
FBI aims to protect civil freedom against terrorism subversion and espionage
Clarence M Kelley explains the FBI’s mission to defend civil freedom amid threats from terrorism subversion and espionage. He notes past wartime measures, new counterintelligence guidelines effective 1976, and closer Congress cooperation to eliminate guesswork, asserting 19,000 FBI personnel stay within legal and public expectations to safeguard liberty.
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FBI
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
Congress
United States
Republic
Bureau
Attorney General
Edmund Burke
Comment on Police Presence in Cities by Anthony Ripley
In a Denver backyard essay Anthony Ripley argues the police are too distant from neighborhoods. He calls for rethinking deployment toward local, integrated patrols, home placements, and civilian ties to restore trust and reduce violence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anthony Ripley
Denver
Ansa
Readers Write Dear Sir Upset Over Judge Griffith Ruling
Indiana County readers protest Visiting Judge Blair Griffiths ruling denying Jay B. Dilts reinstatement as chairman of the County Board of Commissioners. They note Dilts won the November 1975 election and was chosen chairman in January 1976, asking how June 8 1977 meeting overturned it and warning of chaos in county government. Virginia McBurney Coral signs.
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Blair Griffith
Cambria County
Jay B. Dilts
Indiana
Jack Dellafiora
Vaughn Davis
Indiana County
Chiffiths
Judge Griffith
Virginia McBurney Coral
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LaBelle Lance
Bloomingdale's
Los Angeles
Thines Syndicate
Indiana Evening Gazette
Water St
Indiana Printing & Publishing Company
R.H. Ray
sPresident
Joan Ray Reed
Joseph L. Donnelly
Russell M. Rickey
Joseph J. Donnell
Dvs
Eee
EMO
William B. Hastings
Frank B. Hood
Associated Press
AP News
Cboy
Indigna
Armstrong
Cambria
Clearfield
Jefferson
Westmoreland
Mingoum
Portage
Howie Kurtz
Tempora
Congressional
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
Victor Riesel
Clarence Kelley
Fai
America
Clarence M. Kelley
Washington, D.C
New York City
Pearl Harbor
Hitler
Abwehr
Secur
Field Newspaper Syndicate
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