Editor's Lagniappe on Viet Nam War and Draft
A reflective column contrasts mortality and hope with war’s grim toll. It criticizes U S policy in Viet Nam, calls for decisive victory, questions leadership, and condemns sales of strategic materials to Communist regimes while noting draft avoidance tactics circulating on campuses.
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Viet Nam
U. S
William Fulbright
Defense
Robert McNamara
Truman
Korea
Europe
Department of Commerce
Commerce Department
Yugoslavia
House Appropriations Sub-Committee For
God Johnson
Balaguer
Bosch
United States
Johnson Down
Trujillo
Juan Bosch
Johnson
Santo Domingo
Political whirl dominates Twin Cities week in review
A packed week of political drama centered on firemen pay, sales tax proposals, and looming elections in Ouachita Parish. Tensions rose between Monroe Mayor Howard and Rep. Gibbs as debate over a 1 cent district tax and school salary raises intensified, while broader state efforts and candidate announcements colored Baton Rouge talk.
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Ouachita Parish
Monroe
West Monroe
Sterlington
Olin Mathieson
John McKeithen
U.S
Otto E. Passman
Surveyor
Baton Rouge
Twin Cities
W. L. Howard
Ouachita
Lawrence Gibbs
Capital
Louisiana Municipal Association
Jamar Adcock
Senate
Ouachita Police
Parish Fire Department
Gibbs
George Wood
Twin City
House
Adcock
Franklin
Lantz Womack
West Monroe Chambers of Commerce
Studier
Howard
Fifth District
Womack
van Dodom
Quachita
State Education Board
Monroe and
Ward 5
McKeithen
State Sovereignty Commission
John B. McKinley
McKinley
Public Service Commission
John Hunt II
Meerthen
Webster
Parey Branton
PSC
H. D. Ruffin
State Department of Occupational Standards
Hunt
U.S. Senate
Allen Ellender
State Highway Board
James W. Moore
Washington
Federalia
State Human Rights Commission
Harold Montgomery
Rep
Judiciary Committee
Moon Surveyor 1 makes soft landing and images stream in
U S space teams celebrated as Surveyor 1 touched down on the Moon after a 63 hour flight, sending photographs within 38 minutes. Gemini 9 pursuit of a target satellite continued in orbit as space milestones dominated a week of foreign and domestic news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Moon
Earth
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena
Calif
Thomas Stafford
Eugene Cernan
Joaquin Balaguer
Rafael Trujillo
Juan Bosch
Dominican Republic
William Scranton
Pennsylvania
Scranton
Congo
Mobutu
Leopoldville
Eamon de Valera
Ireland
de Valera
Thomas O'Higgins
Educational Policies Commission
National Education Association
American Association of School Administrators
EPC
National Safety Council
California
Nevada
New Jersey
South Carolina
Viet Nam
JPL
Russia
Surveyor
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Lagniappe
By Jack Gates
Twin Cities-Area
Richard Tyler
Parti
Mary Burt Coverdale
Bert Coverdale
Odis Russell
Billye L. Adams
Ouachita School Board
B. A. Tarver
Erals
Pasadena Jet Propulsion Lab
Edward C. Welsh
White House
Little Island
Puerto Rico
Hector Garcia Godoy
Hemispheric Command
Gop
Nelson Rockefeller
New York
Rocky
Michigan
George Romney
Romney
Goldwater
Rockefeller
Nixon
Goldwater Ranch
Phoenix
Macon County
Georgia
Tuskegee Institute
Lucius Amerson
Bullock
Greene
Hale
Perry
Groes
Baltimore
Humphrey
China
Red China
Peking University
Peng Chen
Peking
Chen
Mao Tse- Tung
Viet Nan
Tenterhooks
Hue
Saigon
Thich Tri Quang
South Viet Nam
United Nations
Quang
James Marlow
North Viet Nam
Hanoi
Haiphong
Gov. Scranton
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