Carter Recognizes China and Reduces World Tensions
Editorial notes the weekend announcement of full diplomatic recognition of the Peoples Republic of China by President Carter, praising a step toward peace and noting potential gains in trade with nearly a billion Chinese consumers. It also discusses reactions from Taiwan and the Soviet Union, Brzezinski’s cautions, and shifts in U S policy with broader geopolitical implications.
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Meet the Press
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Peking Radio
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Nixon
New Fears Surround the Shift to Coal Fortune
The article notes rising concerns over coal dangers as the nation weighs energy security against environmental penalties. It cites evolving scientific findings suggesting greater risks from coal use and questions the assumed tolerable costs of relying on a major energy source.
New Castle News editorial on coal, acid rain, and costs
The piece discusses environmental risks of a coal based economy, noting acid rain harms Swedish lakes and aquatic life. It argues against rapid nuclear power expansion and warns coal carries hidden and known costs, urging prudent consumption.
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Scandinavia
Europe
Sweden
Tom Alexander
Pain as the hardest fact of life to understand
A reflective meditation on suffering and meaning from New Castle News letters lines the enduring pain of loved ones and the human struggle to fit pain into a rational pattern. The piece notes pain intrudes amid life’s ordered laws and gaps in logic, where suffering follows no clear rule.
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NEW Castle News
An Open Letter to George Meany on Wage Control Debate
An open letter argues against across the board wage and price controls linking inflation to government spending. It cites Schuettinger Butler study, contrasts WWII controls with Nixon era, and warns of long term failures by insisting controls. The author urges Meany to examine economic history and acknowledges pain as a personal vocation beyond policy.
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Afl-Cio
Robert Schuettinger
Heritage Foundation
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ken Galbraith
Dick Gilbert
Office of Price Administration
Schuettinger
Butler
Frederick Hayek
Egypt
Nile Valley
B.C
Babylon
Hammurabi
China
India
Greece
Rome
Diocletian
Schuettinger-Butler
Personal Reflections On Ventriloquism And Historic Facts
The author notes ventriloquism by birds like chickadees and doves. They discuss England public schools as private in origin and King’s School Canterbury dating back to ancient times. They mention Wagner’s works expanding beyond music and Western Union absorbing many rival telegraph firms. Noah Webster spent two decades creating a dictionary with unique words.
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King’s School
Canterbury
Richard Wagner
Western Union Telegraph Co
Noah Webster
Bits of trivia from research bits and bytes of science
A collection of curiosities covers senses and embryo size, dead hair, infrared thermography for heat mapping and tumor detection, tropical disease funding versus a fighter jet cost, single parent households, presidential protection history, the ladybug’s name origin, and surgical hand scrubbing rituals versus hygiene.
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United States
McKinley
Ehrlich View of Farming Seen Untrue by Editor
The News front page carries Dr. Paul Ehrlich's Population Bomb as alarmist and unfounded. Francis J. Rogan of New Castle rebuts with charges of flawed data, limited agricultural knowledge, and reliance on speculation while citing Stanford's Food Research Institute as a credible source.
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New Castle News
Paul Ehrlich
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Colin Clark
Food Research Institute
Stanford
Francis J. Rogan
New Castle
True meaning of Christmas needs thought
The article urges reflecting on Christmas beyond store hype, remembering Jesus birth and love. It calls readers to help orphans, the elderly, addicts, prisoners, and stray animals, and to give of themselves as Christ did, attributed to Kathleen Jennings Pulaski.
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Christ
Kathleen Jennings Pulaski
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