Blame for War Hearings Tactics Lands on Speaker Albert
The piece attacks Speaker Carl Albert and Rep. Ronald Dellums for backing partisan war crimes hearings in the Capitol. It argues the ad hoc committee aimed to portray U.S. Southeast Asia policy as immoral, citing concerns from Rep. Edward Hebert about potential legal and procedural violations.
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Capitol
Ronald Dellums
California
Left House
Carl Albert
Dellums
Berkeley
Vietnam
Edward Hebert
Louisiana
Armed Services Committee
Hebert
Albert
House
House of Representatives
Street Muscle Warning From Senator Jackson on Protests
Senator Henry M. Jackson urges against street force as a tool for change amid antiwar protests in Washington. He warns that "raw, purposeful and determined force" in the streets risks democracy and describes rioting as a danger to institutions. He calls for change through lawful avenues and condemns militant disruption.
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Henry M. Jackson
Democratic Party
Washington
Jackson
America
National
Dangerous Ground in New Jersey Hairdo Jibe at Martha Mitchell
Martha Mitchell, wife of the U S attorney general, drew sharp mockery from New Jersey hairdressers who labeled her hairdo scrumpy. The NJ Master Hairdressers and Cosmetologists Association joked at their annual convention calling her the leading woman in American public life with the worst hairdo. The gag suggests newspapers avoid quoting such remarks due to libel statutes.
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New Jersey
Martha Mitchell
U.S
Polls, Surveys and Pollsters Close to a Political End
Washington humorist ART BUCHWALD sketches a city besieged by questionnaires from airlines hotels taxi stands and street surveys. He meets pollsters from government and market research groups in New York sideshows a minister's church questionnaire and a briefcase carrier asking about Lindsay Nixon and hot pants.
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Washington
New York
New York City
Lindsay
Nixon
Fifth Avenue
Hanoi Woes Indicate Vietnamization Policy Progress
Washington officials study reports of declining morale among Communist troops in South Vietnam and shortages of food and war supplies. The signs, coming from the top political general in the Communist command, suggest Nixon's Vietnamization policy is at a delicate but working stage.
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Washington
South Vietnam
Hanoi
Nixon
Cuo Long
Tran Do
Colvin High Command
U.S
Colvin
Nixon policy cited in antiwar protests and Hanoi leaks
Andrew Tully profiles a young antiwar protester who believed in a Nixon win while White House aides and Davis Hirsckkop leaders guided the movement. The piece contrasts the demonstrators with Nixon’s plan to buy time for Saigon and a deteriorating Communist war effort revealed in a Hanoi broadcast.
Democratic aide appeals to LBJ in Maryland race
In a Maryland special congressional contest to fill Rogers Morton’s seat, Elroy Boyer backs a local, anti outsider stance while William Mills touts Nixon and Agnew ties. The race tests national sentiment as voters weigh economy and war protests amid a Democratic edge in the Eastern Shore district.
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Washington
Congress
Lyndon Johnson
Nixon
Agnew
White House
Democratic National Committee
Maryland
Rogers C.B. Morton
Morton
Johnson
GOP
Chesapeake Bay
Nastern Shore
Northeast
Elroy Boyer
William Mills
Mills
Allison, Treleavan, and Reitz
Republican Party
Boyer
James Exon
Nebraska
Marvin Mandel
Mandel
Memory Lane News Briefs From May 10 1951
In Korea Allied forces killed or wounded about 6000 Reds as a Communist offensive failed to flank Seoul. In Washington President Truman called relaxation the worst enemy and urged price and wage controls for two more years. In Wichita Falls severe weather caused extensive damage including to a J C Penney and a drug store, with losses around 200000 and 80000 dollars respectively.
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Lubbock
Seoul
Korea
Washington
Harry Truman
King Ludwig's Dumbwaiter Dining Room Tale
A historical note recalls King Ludwig of Bavaria detesting waiters and converting a kitchen floor into a dining area with a rope lowered table. He used a dumbwaiter system to move meals and waste between floors, dining alone and sometimes flinging scraps below. The piece then segues to a beetle riddle about a headstanding, odor-squirting insect found around the Southern California deserts.
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King Ludwig
Bavaria
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Rennie Davis
Philip Hirschkop
Alexandria
Davises
Hirschkops
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Saigon
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South
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Tran Co
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John Halsey
L. M. Boyd
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P.O
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