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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1972
Page
2
A fragmented historical notice from the Lawrence Journal World describes its publishing details and staff lineage. It mentions The World Company, editors, and offices at Sixth and New Hampshire Streets in Lawrence Kansas.
The Atomic Energy Commission still considers Carlsbad New Mexico the leading candidate for a radioactive waste dump with Kansas briefly in contention. Gov. Docking and opponents in Lyons helped derail the Kansas plan while rail routes worry nearby states. Police strategist Rocky Pomerance faces renewed demonstrations at the Republican convention with plans to disrupt and a warning against fringe groups.
AP reports one year after Nixon price and wage controls that inflation fell to about 3.5 percent, unemployment near 5.5 percent, while domestic growth and a housing boom persist. The piece notes deficits and potential risk of dollar devaluation, with mixed long term conclusions and surprising business optimism in a regulated economy.
Policy aims to reduce underage drinking and late tavern hours after Kansas City area teens died in a Turnpike crash linked to drinking. Four injured in a three-vehicle wreck east of the Lawrence service area. costs exceed ten thousand dollars.
The piece traces Robert Kennedy and others arguing McGovern’s image differs from his rhetoric. It cites Nick Kotz, Carl Mundt, Jackson, and others, contrasting calls for unity with harsh attacks. It notes McGovern’s comments on Nixon, Johnson, Hoovers, and Indochina, framing the debate over decency and temperament.
Letters criticize Planning Commission chairman Don Haines for calling a West Campus Road stop sign ridiculous. A reader argues stops ease turns during class changes. Other letters debate liberal communal society and public day care, and urge churches to oppose obscenity in media, urging action in Lawrence.
Some scholars protest Margaret using her father Harry S. Truman’s private papers and memos to write a book arguing that access to HST’s papers should be public because he is a public figure.
In a fiery campaign claim Fielding Tagafly of the Democratic Committee to Get the Goods on the Committee to Re-Elect the President says about $114000 traced to those involved in a bugging job. He charges administration contractors overran costs and used funds for lavish living and unsafe equipment. Also reports a 4.9 magnitude aftershock near Sitka Alaska referenced with no damage reported.
McGovern names Robert F Wagner to run the New York campaign as a compromise amid feuding county chairs and reform blocs. Wagner, a Manhattan lawyer, is seen as a neutral choice to prevent a split while McGovernites and regulars argue over blueprint leadership and control.
Former U S Attorney General Ramsey Clark revises his stance on North Vietnamese prisoner releases. He now says POWs will be freed with a full settlement of the war, not immediately after halting bombing, and notes some prisoners could go free soon though not instantly. He cites a two hour talk with Foreign Minister Nguyen Duy Trinh and a letter delivered to his hotel, while denying near treason claims from Radio Hanoi.
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