U S Soviet Summit Seen as Landmark in Diplomacy
The Ponroe News-Star reports on the U S Soviet talks as a landmark in Big Power diplomacy with expectations of momentum from the first Nixon Brezhnev summit. Brezhnev pushes for large scale economic ties while Nixon faces Watergate scrutiny and aims for arms limits and regional stability.
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Georgy Arbatov
U. S
Moscow
Henry Jackson
D-Wash
Nixon
Brezhnev
Europe
Middle East
Flood Insurance Debate Grows in Congress Over Damaged Homes
Congress debates federal funding for flood losses in low areas with rising annual flood counts. The Nixon administration curbs disaster loans to citizens to five percent interest and pushes a flood insurance mandate for communities. Officials cite political pressure from builders for local hesitance to join the program.
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Small Business Administration
SBA
Senate
House
Sea Law Conference Faces 200 Mile Ocean Claims Debate
The United Nations Law of the Sea Conference may decide whether to ratify a 200 mile limit as Latin and African states claim wider jurisdiction. Offshore oil finds and pollution control drive the dispute, but critics warn such claims hinder basic ocean research and scientific study across the water column.
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Africa
Dean's Credibility Under Attack
Washington reports detail how White House defenses question John W. Dean III's credibility amid Watergate scrutiny. The piece notes prosecutors' claim he did not tell them in April he had no evidence implicating Nixon, and that Dean offered to testify for immunity before Nixon fired him. It discusses the impact on his Senate testimony and the campaign against him.
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Washington
Nixon
White House
John W. Dean III
Dean
Mr. Nixon
Senate Watergate Committee
Charles W. Colson
Colson
ABC
Howard K. Smith
David Shapiro
U. S
Colson-Shapiro
CBS
H. R
Bob) Haldeman
John Ehrlichman
John Mitchell
Ervin Committee
Watergate
Leonid Brezhnev
Soviet Union
United States
Ple
Lixon
Brezhnev
Vietnam
G. Gordon Liddy
Henry A. Kissinger
Dr. Kissinger
Old Southern Strategy Gains Ground Across the South
The piece notes Republican advances from Virginia to Georgia fueled by the Watergate era realignment. Mills Godwin emerges as Virginia’s likely 1973 nominee and 1972-74 GOP fusion prospect, while Mississippi and Greenville show strong GOP gains in municipal races. Columbus elects a Republican mayor as GOP momentum extends below the Mason-Dixon Line and into Texas figures.
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Washington
Daniel Ellsberg
G. Gordon Liddy
Virginia
Mills B. Godwin
GOP
Our Party
Henry Howell
Mississippi
Clarke Reed
Texas
John Connally
White House
George Bush
Bush
Mason - Dixon Line
Watergate preoccupies Washington amid national tension
In Washington the Watergate saga dominates public thought eclipsing inflation energy and Vietnam legacies. A columnist notes local obsession with Nixon and Watergate while Brezhnev and Kissinger seem distant and the public pressures build toward potential political upheaval.
Energy Policy Proposed and Dreadful Transport Risks
An editorial argues for a composite national energy policy blending coal hydroelectricity oil natural gas and atomic power. It cites tanker collisions near New York and Sabotaged ports, critiques environmentalist fears, and urges learning from Britain Ireland and the Netherlands to safely expand deepwater oil terminals.
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Sea Witch
Esso Brusses
New York Harbor
Appalachian
Joe Moody
National Coal Policy Conference
Richard Nixon
John Kennedy
New Jersey
Sandy Hook
Philadelphia
Delay River
New York
U.S
United States
Maine
Machinsport
Big Stone Beach
Delaware
Britain
Milford Haven
Gulf Oil Company
Bantry Bay
Ireland
Rotterdam
Holland
Monroe News-Star Details Editorial Staff and Affiliations
The Monroe News-Star published in Monroe Louisiana outlines its publishing history from 1929 to 1972 with key editors and officers including Joan Ewing and Wilson Ewing. It notes the paper’s independence, Associated Press affiliation, and distribution as an afternoon daily except Saturdays and Sundays.
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Joan Ewing
Wilson Ewing
Robert Ewing Jr
William H. Bronson
News-Star—World Publishing Corporation
North 4Th and
Olive Streets
Monroe
Mildred Hunt Ewing
Edmund Graves Brown, Jr
Robert Eying
Decratary
Patricia Wis Hendrick
Esther Ewingynne
Kenneth C. Barranger
Robert Ewing Brown
Toulmin Hunter Brown
John D. Ewing, Jr
Paula Wray Ewing
Virginia Clay Hill
John A. Hendrick
Harrison Kelly Wynne
Monroe la
Jack S. Campbell
Edmund G. Brown
Jack C. Gates
William
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