Law Enforcement Not Job For The Gun Buyer
California Attorney General Thomas C. Lynch warns of an arms race in private gun purchases. California sees a sharp rise in handgun sales, while nationwide estimates show guns in private hands possibly reaching 100 to 200 million. The piece argues policing and addressing violence root causes over gun buying, urging well funded police and laws to enforce them.
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California
Thomas C. Lynch
California Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation
Stanford Research Institute
United States
What Gets The Frank
Postmaster General Watson and Senator Griffin of Michigan shelved their dispute over franking privileges until after the election. The issue is whether franking mail constitutes campaign material and how to prevent abuses. Congress may need to more clearly define campaign material to curb improper use of franking.
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Watson
Griffin
Michigan
Congress
Post Office Department
Transition signals firm foreign policy stance across administrations
David Lawrence notes President elect Nixon and President Johnson stress a unified foreign policy during the transition. Nixon warns against vacillation and promises joint discussion with allies. He suggests establishing a civil service continuity to preserve agency efficiency beyond political cycles.
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Washington
Elect Nixon
Johnson
White House
United States
Nixon
Quote outlines condition for progress across foreign policy
The speaker says progress on Vietnam the Middle East crisis and US Soviet relations depends on the other side realizing the current administration will push through policies carried by the next administration. He stresses that actions now must align with future administration plans.
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Sovit Union
North Vietnam
Middle East
United States
Vietnam
Mideast
Soviet Union
Middletown News-Post Subscription Rates
Subscription details for the Journal published by News-Journal Inc. in Middletown Ohio include per copy and weekly rates for weekday and Sunday editions, in city and suburban routes, with annual mail options inside and outside the trading area and outside the USA. Payments are listed as advance.
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The
News- Journal, Inc
First Ave
Middletown
Ohio
USA
A Most Frightening Book Review on The Great Terror
Joseph Alsop assesses Robert Conquest's The Great Terror as the first authoritative account of Stalin's mass killings. He notes a 20 million dead estimate, compares with earlier regimes, and argues the book's value as a contemporary warning about political violence and leftist intellectual reaction. He highlights Brezhnev era links and future dangers in China and Mao.
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Washington
Robert Conquest
Josef Stalin
Soviet Union
Conquest
George F. Kennan
Siberia
Earth
Adolf Hitler
Mao Tse-tung
China
Brezhnev
Kosygin
England
Kingsley Martin
The
New Statesman
Stalin
Edmund Wilson
Walter Durany
United States
Harold Laski
Vyshinski
Owen Lattimore
Belsen
Auschwitz
Sidney
Beatrice Webb
Jean-Paul Sartre
Che Guevara
Humphrey Forms Shadow Democratic Body for 1970s
Vice President Humphrey plans a Democratic shadow government to steer party rebuilding, guide issue task forces, and back 1970 candidates. He would chair with Muskie as vice chair and recruit key leaders like Kennedy and Boggs, while debates over inclusion and approach continue.
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Humphrey
Nixon
Johnson
Richard Nixon
Congress
National Committee
Edmund Muskie
DNC Advisory Council
Adlai Stevenson
Sam Rayburn
Lyndon Johnson
O'Hara
House Democratic
DNC
Eugene McCarthy
Sen
Edward Kennedy
House
Hale Boggs
Cleveland
Carl Stokes
San Francisco
Joseph Alioto
Clark Clifford
HEW
Wilbur Cohen
NAACP
Roy Wilkins
UAW
Walter Reuther
Terry Sanford
Lawrence O’brien
Adlai Stevenson III
Agriculture
Orville Freeman
Ban Polls Before Primaries Urged by Carlisle Letter
A reader urges Congress to ban polling a month before presidential primaries, to count ballots only after all precincts close, and to abolish the electoral college. The letter is signed by Kris Brommel and 970 Timothy Lane Carlisle and sent to Representatives Lukens and Whalen.
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Donald E Lukens
Longworth House
Washington, D. C
Charles Whalen
Kris Brommel
Timothy Lane Carlisle
Bad Manners and Teetotalers Spar Over Modern Youth
A column riffs on ancient quotes about youth misbehavior and authority, then shifts to a British sobriety test joke where a driver, attempting to prove defective bags, quizzes a wife and baby. The punchline has the officer admitting the bags were faulty and the mother noting a TV set purchase.
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Socrates
B.C
Confucius
England
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