Defenders Say Great Society Won Real Gains
Washington report notes Sar A. Levitan and Robert Taggert defend the 1960s Great Society programs in The Promise of Greatness. They argue initiatives in income support health care housing civil rights manpower and community organization delivered substantial benefits and reduced poverty. They urge new, targeted reforms to extend progress beyond the 1970s.
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Lyndon Johnson
Sar A. Levitan
Robert Taggert
Harvard University Press
Levitan
Center For Manpower Policy Studies
Taggert
National Manpower Policy Task Force
Great Society
Ford
Newark Drug Kingpin Convicted In Six Week Trial
Frank Lucas and brothers Vernon Lucas and Stacy Andrews along with Geraldine Lucas and Gregory Turman were found guilty of conspiring to distribute heroin in the Newark New York area. The six week trial of the Country Boys ring concluded with multiple convictions and looming life sentences for Lucas and relatives.
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UPI
Frank Lucas
Newark-New York City
Lucas
Teaneck
Vernon “Shorty” Lucas
Geraldine Lucas
Newark
Stacy Andrews
Gregory Turman
Country Boys
North Carolina
Thailand
Harlem
Bronx
River Kwai Guards and POWs to Meet at Bridge
About a dozen former POWs from Britain Holland and Australia will meet former Japanese guards at the River Kwai bridge in Thailand to bury WWII enmities. Led by Australian Lance Lowe and Japanese interpreter Takashi Nagase the delegation travels via the river rail line to the bridge and war cemetery for an overnight visit.
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Australia
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Lance Lowe
Sydney
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Thailand-Burma
Alec Guinness
Singapore
Malaya
Lowe
Nagase
Aoyama English Academy
Kurashiki City
Australian Broadcasting Commission
Drought Sparks Record Champagne Harvest in France
France enjoyed near record Champagne output as a hot dry summer sped the harvest ahead. French growers hailed an exceptional year with praised Beaujolais Alsatian and Bordeaux crops and Burgundy reporting the best yield in over a decade. Other nations faced reduced vintages with Italy down 5.5 percent Spain 11 percent and Portugal 30 percent as hail rain and drought affected quality and quantity.
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Chianti
Spanish Agriculture Ministry
Valencia
la Mancha
Armando Ferreira
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Oporto
Champane Wine Committee
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Turkey Sees Itself as European in Westward Pivot
Turkish politicians debate Europe identity as Ankara balances East and West. Many want stronger Western ties, yet frustration over the Cyprus arms embargo and EM-COM Market issues pushes toward broader trade partners and possible arms diversification.
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Turkey
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Cyprus
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