High Cost of Peace and Global Defense Spending
An analysis of arms budgets from the United States and the Soviet Union showing their combined share of world defense costs at 70 percent, with $130 billion spent globally and per capita implications. The piece critiques aid to underdeveloped nations, calls for disarmament, and questions the ability to keep peace given human greed and aggression.
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United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Geneva
United Nations
United States
Soviet Union
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Great Lakes Pollution Sparks Senate Hearing On Standards
David A. Groh of the Lake Carriers Association told a Senate Public Works subcommittee that shore cities and industries foul the lakes with waste. He notes ships lack of treatment standards from the Public Health Service and warns without universal rules and enforcement pollution will persist.
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Great Lakes
David A. Groh
Lake Carriers’ Association
Senate Public Works
Groh
U.S. Public Health Service
De Gaulle's Memorable Words Meet With Forgetful Deeds
The 1945 Gosling message to American GIs is cited, then contrasted with De Gaulle's 1960s action banning the Lawrence Kelly memorial at the Invalides. The piece argues the French leader’s hostility to Roosevelt and NATO while predicting France will return to Western alliance, despite his stance. The critique highlights Raymond Drone's defense of American aid in liberation and calls for NATO reentry.
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Free America
Europe
United States of America
Charles de Gaulle
France
Benjamin Protter
United States
NATO
de Gaulle
Gis
Lawrence Kelly
the Invalides
Paris
Kelly
Moscow
America
National Assembly
Cision
Raymond Drone
Drone
Roosevelt
Johnson
Massachusetts Democrats face midyear advisory convention turmoil
National Scene analysis notes Boston Mayor John Collins and Edward McCormack contesting Senate and governor nominations as Ted Kennedy weighs influence. Donahue and O'Donnell vie for support, while Kennedy risks being drawn into a messy fall race and faces a ceiling on wider ambitions due to family dynamics and national image.
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Massachusetts
John Collins
Boston
Senate
Edward McCormack
John McCormack
Collins
Endicott
Chub
Kenneth O'Donnell
John F. Kennedy
Ted
Donahue
O'Donnell
Kennedy
John Kennedy
Sen
Robert Kennedy
New York
Bob
Fifty Years Ago items From the News-Post
Opening of Brad dock Heights in Frederick County sets a lively summer. Champs schedule a double header at Hanover pending weather. County school budget totals 145340.16 for 1916-17, total operating cost about 233112. Hood College gains new trustees Joseph H. Neff Alexanderia PA and John C. Motter York PA. Gymnasium swimming pool building projected at over 200000 with civil production admin authorization pending. Frederick’s municipal playground plans announce four sites Baker Park Harmon Field Washington street Mullinix Park and revised commissioner roles.
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Joseph H. Neff
Alexandria
John C. Motter
York
Hood College
Civilian Production Administration
Frederick
Playground Commission
Robert L. Smith
Baker Park
Harmon Field
Washington Street
Mullinix Park
Guardianship by giants in world affairs
Washington Today discusses a shared view that small nations require the guardianship of larger powers. It cites South Vietnam's request for UN observers for September elections, the Dominican Republic's peaceful vote under OAS guidance, and calls for a neutral UN role in Vietnam while noting Congo’s past failures and the need for durable guardianship.
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Washington
South Vietnam
Dominican Republic
U.N
United Nations
Johnson
United States
Congo
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Gerry's
NEA
Jaztee Hare
Viena
Aeek
Soldiers of Free America
Bruce Bioss
Ted Kennedy
News-Post
Braddock Heights
Frederick County
Hanover
Raiders
Washington Today
By David Lawrence
Organization of American States
Inter - American Peace Force
State Department
Dominican
Vietnam
U.N. Commission
Arthur Goldberg
Goldberg
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