Ecotage critics warn against vigilante pollution blocks
The piece defines ecotage as vigilante tactics to block or expose pollution and discusses a contest by Environmental Action Inc. It condemns ecotage as unjustified vigilantism while noting its claimed aim to shock public awareness of pollution. It cites Udall Stansbury and a military official urging environmentalists to accept responsibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stewart Udall
Jeff Stansbury
Environmental Action, Inc
Purdue University
Indiana Air Pollution Control Board
Ecoteur
Udall and
Stansbury
Environmental Action
F. B. Koisch
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Editorials show shifting views on busing in Florida primary
The piece surveys a cross section of the United States where a 3 2 vote against forced busing to meet racial quotas contrasts with a 4 1 majority for unified quality education. Top Florida candidates Wallace Humphrey Jackson Muskie Nixon and others are noted with impact on delegate counts and campaign momentum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
United States
George Wallace
Hubert Humphrey
Henry Jackson
Edmund Muskie
Senate
Muskie
Wallace
Nixon
New Hampshire
Georgia
Shirley Chisholm
George McGovern
Wilbur Mills
Sam Yorty
Los Angeles
Setting a price on traffic death
A discussion of valuing a human life for safety policy cites figures from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the National Safety Council, with estimates from 45 000 to 300 000 for fatalities. It notes that cost benefit analyses are controversial and arbitrary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Insurance Institute For Highway Safety
National Safety Council
National Highway Traffic Administration
Safety Administration
Gary Fromm
Duke University
Fromm
Texans discuss Texas special sessions and political maneuvers
The piece surveys the history of Texas special legislative sessions since 1876, noting 74 in total with 30 since 1931, and outlines current factional battles over a new Speaker, potential impeachments tied to a stock fraud scandal, and the ambitions of lawmakers in the looming session. It also references Adm. Ernest J. King succeeding Stark as chief of naval operations on March 9, 1942.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Texas
Austin
Govenor
Preston Smith
Hilary Doran
del Rio
Smith
Senate
Bob Bullock
State Insurance Board
Larry Teaver
Raymond Williams
Adm
Ernest J. King
Harold R. Stark
Naval Operations
This Day in History March 23 Highlights Through Time
On March 23 events span 1775 Patrick Henry’s liberty or death plea in Virginia to 1743 Handel Messiah premiere in London with King George II. Mussolini’s 1919 movement, Hitler’s 1933 powers, Rhine crossing 1945, Anglican Catholic meeting 1966, Algeria 1958 crackdown, Apollo delay 1965, Brussels farmer protest 1980.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Patrick Henry
Virginia
Richmond
London
George II
George Frederick Handel
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Reichstag
Adolf Hitler
U. S
Rhine River
Germany
Canterbury
Arthur Michael Ransey
Pope Paul VI
Vatican
Algeria
U.S. Space Agency
Cape Kennedy
Brussels
Belgium
Letters to the Editor Guidelines Reprint Notice
A republication details how letters to the editor are printed if they meet criteria. Signatures and addresses may be withheld on request. Submissions must be under 500 words and of general interest, with poor taste rejection.
Quick quiz style Q and A on nations bears and banks
A list of questions and facts covers UN membership neutrality in Switzerland bears winter behavior and the Bank of America as the largest bank, noting Tafts unique path to U S chief justice. The tone reflects concise factual trivia with named entities including Switzerland United Nations Bank of America and William Howard Taft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Switzerland
The
United Nations
United States
William Howard Taft
Pecos Community Notes and Local Volunteer News
Following the New London disaster, Harvey Beauchamp and locals insured Pecos and Barstow school gas lines were safe with no faults found. Rotary elects Alton Hughes as president. other officers named. City voters briefed by City Attorney Jim Willis for bond election. Beta Sigma Phi opens season with a themed party at Miss Margaret Elliott’s. SMU Alumni Club Founders Day plans and a guest program by Mrs. Mary S. Woods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New London
Harvey Beauchamp
Southern Union Gas Company
Pecos
Barstow
Beauchamp
R. Henry Blackwell
Alton Hughes
Rotary Club
Barney Hubbs
R. L
Dan) Boone
William L. Kerr
George Sullivan
Paul Heiser
Jim Willis
Charles F. Manahan
Beta Sigma Phi
Margaret Elliott
Pecos Smu
Claude W. Ferebee Jr
James Gallemor
South Cherry Street
Mary S. Woods
Woods
Massachusetts
America
SMU
Gallemore
Claude Ferebee
Nixon hints at easing Moscow trade despite limits
U S officials expect President Nixon within months to loosen export restrictions on high tech machinery to the Soviet Union while easing Russian hurdles for American imports. Moscow’s specialists argue changes won’t close the industrial gap, given Soviet limits on payments and limited demand for American goods. The piece notes Russia’s underdeveloped resources and Japan’s ongoing, stalled joint-venture talks with Moscow, with conditions lingering in exploration of such deals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Nea
Nixon
Soviet Union
United States
Russia
Moscow
U.S
West Europe
Japan
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South Cedar Street
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King
Dick Turner
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San Francisco
U.S. Computer Tax Service
Sylvia Sandoval
Ray Cromley
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