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Newspaper
Lincoln Journal
Location
Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1977
Page
5
The piece argues the Ford pardon prevents a Watergate verdict, keeping doubt alive. It claims Nixon acts as a leader in exile, with the pardon used to portray him as not legally guilty and to cast Ford as deserving impeachment in a provocative critique by Chris Lyford Lincoln.
The note laments no winners this year and urges a new baseball coach. It cites poor Big 8 and conference finishes for football and basketball, and notes track and cross country as nondescript. It attacks federal funding, taxation, and President Carter.
Mike Niederhaus notes city sidewalks and streets are city property requiring maintenance. He planted grass seed and railroad ties to improve curb appeal and protect city property, but received a notice to remove the ties as obstructions. He compares city downtown furniture to larger obstructions and calls for ordinance changes.
The letter writers recall a 1930s coal mining education that warned coal reserves would last only a few years. They note a 50 year shift to 200+ years due to new discovery and fewer regulatory hurdles. They also critique imposing human rights ideas abroad, warning against coercive suggestions.
Letter argues the energy shortage is contrived to expand federal control and tax burden. It urges stopping forced busing, abolishing the ICC and DOT, expelling EPA and environmental groups, and advancing atomic power as the future.
Nobel hopeful Sir William Arthur Lewis argues the North underestimated threats from rising developing nations and vice versa. He notes the modern rich poor divide began around the Industrial Revolution and stresses terms of trade, labor productivity, and the need for South centered growth via regional trade and domestic agricultural and industrial revolutions.
Art Buchwald argues reruns drain American life as TV dominates viewers and seasons shrink to rerun and regular periods. Rademacher notes fewer new shows, more repeats, and public fatigue, with Cronkite stepping away to avoid appearing like a rerun. The piece riffs on TV's grip and the irony of Nixon interviews.
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