Prison Riots Across States Prompt Death Penalty Talk
The piece links uprisings in Oklahoma Ohio Virginia Walpole Rhode Island Baltimore and Lompoc to a supposed revolutionary conspiracy noted by the House Internal Security Committee and California corrections. It argues reforms risk softening prisons and cites a California investigator on prisoner fearlessness, suggesting death penalties for guards' killers as a deterrent.
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Oklahoma
Ohio
Lucasville
Virginia
Walpole
Mass
Rhode Island
Baltimore
Lompoc
California
House Internal Security Committee
Cuba under Castro shadows and shortages endure
The piece traces Cuba’s 20 year arc from Fidel Castro’s 1959 seizure to ongoing hardship under regimentation and Soviet influence. Despite a grand 52 foot statue in Santiago for July 26, daily life remains strained with shortages and fear, while some regional observers note limited gains abroad. The writer contrasts Castro with Batista and cites religious reflection from Colossians 2 6 7.
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Cuba
Fidel Castro
Sierra Maestra
Havana
Batista
Santiago
Soviet Union
Caribbean Island
Castro
Sinatra incident and publishing shifts headline in 1968 era
In a Christmas Day shock at Hanoi Hilton prisoners heard Frank Sinatra on the prison loudspeakers. Sinatra's What America Means to Me inspired Col. William Baugh to vow to seek him out upon return. Later at a Waldorf dinner Baugh presented Sinatra a foundation jacket. Angela Davis biography deal flagged as a publishing revolution with large paperback advances and shifting dynamics between paperback and hardcover markets.
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New York
William Baugh
USAF
Hanoi Hilton
Frank Sinatra
Baugh
Sinatra
America
U.S
the Waldorf
Bill Fugazy
All American Collegiate Golf Foundation
Foundation
Angela Davis
North Vietnam
Bernard Geis
Bantam Books
Random
Geis
Avon
Jim Bryans
Popular Library
Warren Committee
Kennedy
Watergate
Jim Fiebig
G.L.H. Cooper
Sarasota
Fla
Cooper
The Journal Middletown Ohio Subscription Rates 1857 Founded
The Journal published by News Journal Inc in Middletown Ohio lists subscription rates for weekdays and Sundays, home delivery options, motor route payments, and mail rates. It notes advance payment, service charges, and regional pricing including outside USA annual rate.
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The
News Journal, Inc
S. Broad
First Ave
Middletown
Ohio
Post Ice
U.S.A
Debating national security in Nixon era politics
William F. Buckley Jr argues overreach in executive power during crises from Ellsberg to Roosevelt. He notes civil liberties risks, recalls Lincoln habeas corpus, and urges measured critique of Ehrlichman and Segretti while defending national security authorities.
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Nixon
Daniel Ellsberg
Fire Department
Coast Guard
Roosevelt
Earl Warren
California
Warren
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Ehrlichman
Segretti
Dean
A Compassionate Farewell to Malcolm Cowley and Friends
John Roche reflects on Malcolm Cowley as a perceptive critic and poet who illuminated the lost generation. He praises Cowley’s A Second Flowering for outlining a generation’s ethos, innocence, and wartime shift, offering a compassionate farewell to his comrades and a thoughtful critique of literary culture.
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Jan Sibelius
Ralph Ellison
Ellison
Cowley
William Faulkner
Scott Fitzgerald
Thomas Wolfe
Ernest Hemingway
John Dos Passos
Viking
American Legion
Biak
Sicily
Normandy
Foul weather blamed on growing TV picture sizes
Reader argues weather woes stem from mass TV broadcasts and giant 25 inch screens crowding the atmosphere. The columnist echoes and suggests a federal law capping future TV picture tubes at six inches.
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McCarthy
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Franklin Roosevelt
China
Sen. McCarran
Sen. Ervin
Ervin
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Americans For Democratic Action
James Reston
Republic
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John Roche
Malcolm Cowley
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