Thieu Proposes Elections Plan for Vietnam War
Thieu proposes settling the war by elections in which the National Liberation Front and other groups could participate. He conditions renouncing violence and accepting election results, hoping international supervision to reduce rigging fears. The plan has U S backing and comes as American troops begin withdrawing, with a cautious but hopeful outlook for peace negotiations ahead.
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Thieu
United States
Nixon
Saigon
U.S
Red River
North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
Haiphong
Germany
Matronly models enter modeling scene challenging youth
Older women gain ground in modeling as demand shifts toward mature looks. The industry sees matronly figures competing with rail-thin teens, offering relatable image for women past youth. The trend echoes broader cultural shifts in beauty standards.
ABM Debate Heats Up Over Safeguard Controls
John P Roche argues the ABM debate is highly charged with symbolism and doubt. He cites Jerome Wiesner and Donald Brennan of Hudson Institute as thoughtful voices, while addressing charges of Pentagon influence and the book Why ABM.
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Wiesner
Donald Brennan
Hudson Institute
Joe McCarthy
Ted Kennedy
Kennedy
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Brennan
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Herman Kahn
Kahn
Hudsons
ABM
Mel Laird
Partisan Feud Over ABM Sparks Smear Tactics
The letters page feud between Albert Wohlstetter and George Rathjens spills into public discourse as hostile partisans accuse each other. National Review cites Jerome Wiesner allegedly censoring his ABM views to avoid offending Soviet scientists, a claim Wiesner’s associates doubt.
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Albert Wohlstetter
George Rathjens
Times
National Review
Richard Whalen
Jerome Wiesener
Wiesner
Whalen
Armstrongs' moon dream ties to local memory
Mrs William Warman recalls a year five ago near Lebanon when Neil Armstrong's parents visited her driveway. They spoke of their son’s space ambitions matching Tom Thornbury's MIT studies as he pursued astronautical engineering.
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William Warman
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Lebanon
McBurney Hills
Warman
Tom Thornbury
MIT
Boston
Mrs. Warman
Tom
Africa’s Ablest Leaders Fall in Tumultuous Span
John Chamberlain argues Western powers ignore famine as a weapon in Africa’s conflicts while Nigeria's siege of Biafra devastates civilians. He recalls Moise Tshombe’s death and Tom Mboya’s assassination, asking why Africa consumes its brightest minds amid turmoil.
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Kenya
Moise Tshombe
Africa
Gridiron questions on Biafra and world opinion
A critique of Obafemi Awolowo and Western inaction over Biafra questions the morality of supporting Thieu and Vietnam while Nigeria starves its own regions. The piece argues Biafrans were the enterprisers and workhorses in a disputed territory, contrasted with external pressures on other conflicts.
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Ho Chi Minh
Nigeria
Biafra
Red Cross
Obafemi Awolowo
Federal
Nigerian Executive Council
McGovern
Thieu
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Red River
Biafrans
The Journal Published daily oy Middletown Ohio
Subscriptions rates listed for daily and Sunday editions with in city subscriptions 70 cents weekly and yearly mail rates 321.00 in trading area 3000 outside area 3800 outside USA. All mail subscriptions payable in advance. Founded in 1857.
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Joseph Alsop on East Europe USSR Autocracy After Invasion
The essay argues the Soviet empire cannot retreat and must advance, contrasting U.S. views of Czech resistance with harsher evidence of repression. It cites Sakharov, Shub, and Solzhenitsyn to show harsher realities behind Western commentary and notes Chomsky’s rhetoric amid growing political prisoners in the USSR.
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London
Czechoslovakia
United States
Anatoly Marchenko
Josef Stalin
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Prof
Chomsky
Blood flows feared in Prague as Soviet pressure tightens grip
The text warns of Prague’s potential bloodshed as Czech people resist foreign rule while Soviet leaders consolidate power. It discusses Gustav Husak as a transitional figure, the rise of hardline Stalinist forces, purges of bourgeois nationalist elements, and the looming creation of an airless police empire under Soviet occupation troops.
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Marshal Jakubovsky
Gustav Husak
Czechoslovakia
Marshal Grechko
Husak
Lubomir Strongal
Aloisandra
Czech Communist Party
Eastern
Europe
Salem Witch Trials Death Sentences Stoked by Judge Sewall 1692
Judge Samuel Sewall pronounced death sentences on 19 women during the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts in 1692. Hypasthrus, skylight, opens ceiling to admit light. The ibis, sacred Egyptian bird, arrives at the Nile in summer and vanishes as water subsides. Zlatko Ralovic, celebrated Yugoslav violinist, dies en route to Yugoslavia for his 70th birthday celebration. Vanderdecken, legendary Flying Dutchman captain, condemned to sail endlessly around the Cape of Good Hope.
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Salem
Mass
Egypt
Nile River
Zlatko Ralovic
Europe
United States
Yugoslavia
Vanderdecken
Cape of Good Hope
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