There's a Reason and Real Courage in Viet Nam talk
Editor's Lagniappe reflects on a Sunday thought about a reason for suffering and trust in God. It then analyzes public sentiment on Viet Nam and President Johnson, noting poll drops, political shifts, and policy critiques. The piece discusses Reagan’s California victory and debates over war strategy, Civil Rights, and education, ending with questions about dreams and psychology and their link to the psyche.
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Mary L. Scalia
U.S
Viet Nam
Senate
Southeast Asia
White House
Johnson
Richard Nixon
California
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
Towa
Des Moines Sunday Register
Iowa
George Romney
Michigan
Lyndon Johnson
Great Society
Congress
BOAC
Young Provocateurs
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Welfare
Labor Party
Gerard Nederhost
Chicago
Nguyen Cao Ky
South Viet Nam
Ngo Dinh Diem
Asia
Saigon
Nguyen Chanh Thi
da Nang
Rae
Nguyen van Thieu
U. S
De Gaulle Moscow Trip Signals Europe German Reunification Clash
The article recalls June 6 1944 and charts De Gaulle’s Moscow visit amid NATO, German reunification debates and Soviet French ties. It notes shifts in Europe including troop movements and rising Cold War tensions. It highlights Ky Vietnam policy and US poverty politics, plus a New York harbor collision investigation.
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Normandy
Charles de Gaulle
Robert S. McNamara
U.S
Air Force
England
de Gaulle
NATO
Europe
United States
Bonn
Rainer Barzel
Ludwig Erhard
Germany
East Germany
West Germany
Soviet Union
Washington
Free World
Moscow
France
West Monroe aldermen bid farewell amid election week
The Week in West Monroe covers a solemn farewell as four aldermen exit office after four years with one, George Wylie, dead this year from a heart attack. The piece notes budget borrowing, debts paid, and city gains including a utilities and street department complex, while detailing local election results, looming primaries, and boundary disputes affecting Ouachita and Monroe school systems.
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Richard Tyler
Ballyhoo
West Monroe
Charles Anding
Earl Duncan
Joyce T. Smith
A. L. DeLoach Jr
George Wylie
Tyler
J. Allan Norris
Sterlington
Winnfield
Jonesboro
Gilbert
G.O.P
Bert Hatten
W. G. Haynes Jr
Horace Eyre
Kenneth Adams
Henry Jones
John FE. Plunkett
James H. Rainwater
Baxter T. Sinclair
Phillip M. Spencer
Jess Cain
Hatten
Unlimited
Demos
Mary W. Allen
Franklin
Lantz Womack
Monroe
Ouachita
Jamar Adcock
Marie Louise Snellings
Ouachita Board
W. S. Gannaway
Adcock
George Wood
Womack
Baton Rouge
Jim Williams
Monroe Chamber of Commerce
Kiwanis Club
Williams
Quachita
H. Austin Miller
Peter J. Dowd
Robert S. Kennedy
Mary Burt Coverdale
Odis Russell
Hewitt B. Johnson
William Logan Crowe
Billye L. Adams
George Fink
Richard E. Reitzell
G. D. Glasscock
W. C. Oglesbee
Charles W. Towers
Pete C. Holcomb
John McCormick
Parish
B. A. Tarver
Leon T. Shamlin
Morris
Ward 5
Allan Rawls
Bentz and Elmore
Northeast Louisiana State College
Bayou DeSiard
Louisiana Highway Board
Calhoun-West
Oak Grove
Mohler Yates
Marlene Bond
State Education Department
Claude E. Carpenter
Bastrop
Abilene
Tex
Ralph Hooks
Texas
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Lagniappe
By Jack Gates
Selective Service System
America
Sigmund Freud
New York Harbor
Empire State Building
Brooklyn
Alva Cape
Texaco Massachusetts
Hawthorne
Sgt
Howard
Kontu
U.S. 11St Airborne
1St Cavalry
Kontum
el Paso
Jimmie Howard
San Diego
Calif
Hill
Chu Lai
Repub
Sargent Shriver
Office of Economic Opportunity
House
OEO
Shriver
Peace Corps
Couve de Murville
Foreign Affairs Commission
French National Assembly
Kremlin
Leonid I. Brezhev
Soviet Communist Party
Brezhnev
O. W. Wilson
Twin Cities-Area
Jack Cameron
Lelon Swanner
Henry Runyon
Jack R. McKee
Marshal J. D. Jones
Ward 3
Curtis Joiner
City
Chamber
T. W. Humphries
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