Merfite Editions Begins The Day On The South Plains
The Lubbock Avalanche Journal announces Merfite Editions starting the day on the South Plains. It is published each weekday with Sunday consolidation and supplied by wire services AP and UP. Robert Honorris serves as vice president and general manager.
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Robert Honorris
Old Glory and Flag Day Spirit in Bicentennial Year
The article extols the American flag as a unique emblem grown with the nation since 1777 and notes Flag Day observed by proclamation. It mentions a 1917 Wilson quote and a pending Congress bill to make Flag Day a national holiday amid rising flag sales in Lubbock during the Bicentennial year.
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SPAG Debate Over Minority Board Seats Sparks Federal Pressure
SPAG leaders delay August vote on bylaws to add minority directors as critics warn of federal coercion. The EDA ties eligibility for a $1 million job studies fund to district status, while opponents fear bureaucratic overreach and the erosion of government by elected representatives.
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Dallas
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Office of Economic Opportunity
Japan Watches U.S. Military Presence in Pacific
Japanese leaders confront dwindling confidence in Washington as doubts linger about the duration of U.S. military stay in the Western Pacific after Vietnam.
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Washington
Sakata
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Japan faces push for rearmament amid defense doubts
Virginia Payette reports that the nation contemplates weakness in defense prompting government leaders to favor modest increases for Japan. Private discussions within the establishment hint at major rearmament for Japan and East Asia.
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Japan
East Asia
Corleone Commission clears crime link with CIA and warns rivals
The Godfathers commission reports to the President claiming no major Mafia violations and defending ties to the CIA as limited and patriotic. It cites 51 witnesses, denies public release of assassination links, and asserts the panel’s thorough, reform-minded work.
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Don Corleone
United States
Mafia
CIA
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Godfathers
Hayden on TV as 1976 Democratic candidate challenger
Andrew Tully profiles Tom Hayden as a polished, conventional reformer now seeking the Senate seat against John Tunney. The piece recalls Hayden's Chicago days with SDS and HUAC testimony, noting his shift from radicalism to mainstream politics and questioning whether his clean image masks a strategic insurgent.
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Tom Hayden
John V. Tunney
D-Calif
Students For A Democratic Society
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Hayden
Chicago
George McGovern
Tunney
SDS
Random Tidbits From L M Boyd Column
A collage of trivia touches on Venetian blinds origin and Japan, Miami dirty films, football IQs, ventriloquism etymology, Dublin’s founding, dice probabilities, rainbows, women’s bust opinions, church giving trends, Anthony name ranking, and a note on Justinian permitting divorce by mutual consent with a burlesque aside.
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