Brezhnev Criticizes Soviet Media Prompting Reforms
Brezhnev blasts Soviet press and broadcasts for vagueness and lack of major statements. In a Central Committee address, he demands faster, clearer foreign news and more concrete reporting, signaling broader media reforms across newspapers radio and television.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Soviet Union
Brezhnev
Communist Party
Izvestia
Tass
White House
Radio Moscow
Voice of America
British Broadcasting Corp
Soviet State Committee For Television and Radio
BBC
Yuri A. Letunov
State Committee
Letunov
United States
Farmers Seed DC Mall Repair Effort After Protest Turf Damage
A group of farmers plow and plant seed to repair the grassy Mall area damaged by last month’s American Agriculture movement protest. Chuck Kanten from Milan Minnesota says about a dozen tractors with seeders and disks are used to seed and smooth soil while National Park Service directs sod removal on the showpiece center section already damaged by shallow roots. Maryland, Virginia and other farmers assist, with goal to prepare ground rather than sod it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
American Agriculture Movement
Chuck Kanten
Milan
Minn
Kanten
National Park Service
Maryland
Virginia
Salina
Kan
Union Pacific
Kansas City
Los Angeles
Kansas
Dick Lohr
Omaha
Manhattan
Hays
Transportation
Brock Adams
Hutchinson
Dodge City
Garden City
Amtrak
Congress
Ogden
Utah
Oregon
Oil Spill Victims Count Spurs Conservation Corps Work
In Emporia Kansas the Young Adult Conservation Corps began counting animals killed by a crude oil spill in Jacobs Creek wildlife area. Ray Woods, senior workshop leader, led 15 youths through the wooded area with the count expected to finish the next day as cleanup crews burn pools and transfer oil to transport trucks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Adult Conservation Corps
Emporia
Kan
Jacobs Creek
Ray Woods
Hartford
Woods
Williams Pipe Line Co
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China
U.S
Agriculture Department
Department
Vietnam
Cambodia
Egypt
Iran
Britain
Times
Gene Ward
Shields Motor Co., Inc
Osage City
Klmapp Ae
Greeley
JD Tractor
Allis-Chalmers
New Holland
Kewanee
David Bradley
Bendrag
Briggs & Stratton
Wisconsin
Dodge
Ford
Palmer
Tom King
Ratliff
al Roeckers
Williamsburg
Richmond
Dicky-John
Farmers Co-Op
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