Pryor Challenges McClellan In Arkansas Senate Fight
The day of safe seats fades as David Pryor 41 percent and John McClellan 45 percent in Arkansas primary signal a shift. Pryor accuses the 30 year Senate veteran of arrogance and wealth while McClellan faces a rising young, diverse electorate and calls for better voter contact. Ben Nett Johnston and Allen Ellender also see youth challenges, underscoring the new demand that incumbents stay in touch with the people.
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Congress
David Pryor
Arkansas
Deep South
Sen
John McClellan
Pryor
Washington, D. C
McClellan
Senate
Louisiana
Senate Government Operations Committee
HUD to hold Houston hearings on land sales abuses
Houston complaints against land developers prompt HUD to announce public hearings next November in Texas. George Bernstein says misrepresentation, overstatements, bait and switch, and other gimmicks lure buyers to recreational and investment lots. Hearings aim to raise awareness, spur legal action, and tighten regulations.
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Houston
U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
Texas
George Bernstein
Interstate Land Sales
Not Against Wars if They Serve Leftist Interests
A Washington dispatch notes Nixon Re-Election strategists study George McGovern’s foreign policy record to portray him as opposing wars to aid leftist regimes while backing military aid to leftist or Communist movements. The piece highlights quotes from 1948 to 1971 on Greece, Czechoslovakia, Korea, Vietnam, and antiwar positions. It also mentions intra party rifts over anti-busing legislation and July platform fights.
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Washington
KIS
Nixon
George McGovern
McGovern
Tokyo
Russia
Czechoslovakia
Greece
U.S
The
Methodist Church
South Dakota
Northwestern
China
South Africa
Rhodesia
Portugal
NATO
GOP
House of Representatives
Louisiana
Joe Waggonner
South
First McGovern Humphrey Debate Rated F
Washington review says the CBS Face The Nation exchange between Senator Hubert Humphrey and Senator George McGovern failed to clarify policy. The hour highlighted charges and defenses, with little on Vietnam, taxes, or future plans, while Nixon’s path and foreign policy loomed.
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Washington
CBS
Hubert Humphrey
George McGovern
Johnson
Nixon
McGovern
Humphrey
Vietnam
Southeast Asia
Congress
Peking
Moscow
Nuclear energy and naval build up reshape U S power plan
The text argues a shift from fossil fuels to nuclear power as essential to meet growing electricity demand and avoid a large oil import bill. It notes ecological challenges, a need for energy diplomacy, and naval expansion to project power, with forecasts that 25 percent of U S power will be nuclear by 1980 and 50 percent by 2000, led by firms like Electro-Nucleonics.
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Frederic Cassidy
University of Wisconsin
DARE
Arkansas
Arizona
U. S
Soviet Russia
Japan
Australia
Europe
Nixon
Nikita Khrushchev
Ussr
China
U.S
George McGovern
Vincent Abajian
Atomic Energy Commission
Signal Oil
Union Carbide
There’s A New Humphrey In California Primary
Washington reports a mock dialogue between the Old and New Humphrey as they debate strategy after a debate with George McGovern. The New Humphrey argues that being liked won’t beat McGovern, stressing a tough, muscular stance and working-class support.
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Washington
Nixon
Humphrey
California
George McGovern
Hubie
Muriel
Hubert
Ilumphrey
George
United States
Ranks split over anti-busing within Democratic reps
The main anti-busing bloc came from Southern and border state Republicans and a few urban Dixie liberals. Northern Democrats largely opposed the resolution though an identifiable anti-busing minority emerged in urban districts with representatives from Italian Irish Polish and Jewish communities in cities like Chicago New York Philadelphia Baltimore Pittsburgh St Louis and Milwaukee.
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Erners
Border State
Fascell
Miami
Pepper
Preyer
Greensboro
N.C
Boggs
New Orleans
Eckhardt
Houston
Gonzalez
San Antonio
Brooks
Galveston
Annunzio
Chicago
Biaggi
Bronx
Delaney
Queens
Ejilberg
Philadelphia
Garmatz
Baltimore
Gaydos
Pittsburgh
Giaimo
New Haven
Conn
Hicks
South
Boston
Kluczynski
Nedzi
Detroit
O'Hara
Sullivan
St. Louis
Yatron
Pennsylvania
Zablocki
Milwaukee
Monroe News-Star details leadership and press affiliations
The Monroe News-Star lists publishers from 1929 to 1970 and names current officers, directors, and key staff. It notes Associated Press affiliation, national advertising reps, and its stance as an independent newspaper printing news impartially and opposing wrongs regardless of party politics.
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John D. Ewing
Wilson Ewing
Robert Ewing Jr
News-Star—World Publishng Corporation
North 4Th and
Olive Streets
Monroe
William H. Bronson
Mildred Hunt Ewing
Edmund Graves Brown, Jr
Robert Ewing III
Patricia Ewing Hendrick
Esther Ewing Wynne
Kenneth C. Barranger
Robert Ewing Brown
Toulmin Hunter Brown
John D. Ewing, Jr
Paula Wray Ewing
Helen Clay Hall
Harrison Kelly Wynne
Eerie
Jack S. Campbell
Edmund G. Brown
Jack C. Gates
William C. Hardin
Associated Press
Branham-Moroney Company
National
New York
New Orleans
Chicago
Atlanta
Detroit
St. Louis
Kansas City
Minneapolis
Dallas
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Charlotte
Boston
Miami
Monroe News-Star
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Bennett Johnston
Wisconsin
By Kevin Phillips
Munich
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Clummy Editorial
BlicksmAn
McGovern-Humphrey
America
Jeffrey Hart
Baloney
Brother
Viet
Art Buchwald
Nam
Odd Coalition
Che Monroe
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