War herbicides in Vietnam prompt moral debate in AAAS panel
Editorial notes the Herbicide Assessment Commission findings that over nine years U S forces sprayed more than 55 million acres in South Vietnam destroying forests and crops. It questions whether the effort saved lives and whether the campaign’s costs and moral implications justify the war strategy as a gradual U S troop phaseout begins.
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American Association For the Advancement of Science
United States
South Vietnam
Association
Chicago
U.S
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Delaware
White House
Vietnam
Pledge of Allegiance Revisions Stirs National Debate
A magazine article notes former LS Commissioner James E. Allen proposing a revised pledge and the NEA's push for adoption by Congress and schools. Delegates at the White House Conference on Children weigh the change as debates over under God and indivisibility resume. Aiming to spur individual commitment, the discussions cast doubt on the sanctity of Bellamy’s 1892 text and recall past amendments from 1920s and 1954.
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James E. Allen
United States of America
National Education Association
Association
Allen
Congress
Washington
White House
Conference On Children
Republic
Francis Bellamy
United States
America
Bellamy
Winter fears and phobias headline a columnist’s playful read
HAL BOYLE turns a gloom-filled season into a cheeky catalog of winter fears and phobias. The piece playfully suggests readers may suffer from chronophobia, dipsophobia, pedophobia, nyctophobia, and other conditions as they endure cold weather and long indoors.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Quick Quiz Q A on crops actors and a university
A quick quiz reveals corn as the nation's most valuable crop with soybeans now second. An actor is called a thespian from Thespis, founder of Greek drama, and the largest French language university outside France is the University of Montreal in Montreal Quebec Canada.
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Thespis
France
University of Montreal
Montreal
Quebec
Canada
Democrats eye 1972 run as Bayh weighs bid
AP reports Sen. Birch Bayh of Indiana weighs a presidential bid supported by a 40 member staff plan while Sen. Harold Hughes of Iowa says odds against a candidacy. Other possible contenders include Muskie Kennedy Humphrey McGovern and Jackson.
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Carl P. Leabsdorf
Washington (Ap
Birch Bayh
Indiana
Harold E. Hughes
Iowa
Henry M. Jackson
Washington
Jack
Senate
Congress
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
Edward M. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
George McGovern
South Dakota
Bayh, Hughes, Jackson
Fred Harris
Oklahoma
Walter F. Mondale
William Proxmire
Wisconsin
Nixon
Hughes
New Hampshire
Bayh
White House
Supreme Court
Muskie
Ed Muskie
Lyndon B. Johnson
Jackson
Texas Legislature Faces Tax Crisis and Reforms at Austin
Hundreds of lawmakers converge on the remodeled Capitol as Texas braces for a fiscal crisis with tax hikes possible. Lt. Gov. Barnes warns the session may be the most difficult in state history while debates on welfare, redistricting, liquor by the drink, and payments to lawmakers dominate the early agenda.
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Sanford
Texas Press Association
Austin
Tex
Ben Barnes
Texas
Barnes
James McGrew
Texas Research League
Gus Mutscher
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Ronald L. Katz
Denman Moody Jr
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Dallas
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