Editorial on Labor Defiance and Nixon Policy Reactions
The piece analyzes organized labor's denunciations of Nixon's economic policy with longshoreman Harry Bridges and AFL-CIO leaders weighing in. It argues wage freezes partly constrain labor but corporate profits and interest rates rise, criticizes some labor critiques as misguided, and notes possible smarter moves to include profits and interest rates in the freeze while stressing the difficulty of a perfectly fair plan.
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Welkin
Nixon
Harry Bridges
Ohio Afl-Cio
Frank King
House of Labor
United Auto Workers
Leonard Woodcock
Significant crack in Berlin wall seen in Brandt remarks
West Berlin native Willy Brandt recalls the August 13 1961 entry of East German forces to the city boundary and the immediate barrier of wire and stakes. He notes the 1961 to 1971 crisis era and praises the four power accord as a step toward ending division and reducing war risk.
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Federal Republic
Willy Brandt
Stern
Brandt
West Berlin
People’s Army
West
Europe
Mary Niklas Ecological Notes On Animals And Insects
New York AP columnist HAL Boyle shares reader Mary Niklas's ecological curiosities. Toads eat thousands of pests including cutworms. bees patrol blooms with precise daily returns. rabbits swim and punch, jack rabbits sprint, and grasshoppers can jump 16.5 feet. Polar bears declined to about 8,060 from 20,000 since 1966. kurtus fish incubate eggs on the male’s forehead. zoos use adopting goats for orphans. Pomeranians, bred from large guards, herd bugs.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Mary Niklas
Mary
United States
Niklas
Australia
Germany
Ants Show Varied Roles Challenge Simple Ants Tale
Scientists note ants defy the old fable by displaying diverse roles from workers to farmers and storage ants. Queens mate once and live up to 15 years while some colonies practice slave making, leaf farming, and nutrient storage, revealing complex social structures across species.
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Washington
National Geographic Society
Tropical
America
Today in history highlights 1783 treaty ends war
Key historical events mark September 3 across centuries including the 1783 Treaty of Paris ending the Revolutionary War, Cromwell's death, the USS Vincennes voyage, and Wilson's 1919 League of Nations tour. Other notes include Verdun 1916, Thieu's 1967 election, Tito’s disarmament proposal, LBJ speeches, and a 1970s perjury case.
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Associated Press
United States
Britain
Oliver Cromwell
England
Vincennes
New York
Gilbert Islands
Central Pacific
Verdum
France
Woodrow Wilson
League of Nations
Nguyen van Thieu
Tito
Lyndon B. Johnson
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
John W. McCormack
Martin Sweig
Dundee parks breed birds to boost city variety
Dundee parks department breeds gold pheasants partridges and other birds to release in city parks. The birds roam the area and residents are told not to interfere or attempt to catch them.
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Dundee
Scotland
Planet Man Notes Drowning Myths Horoscopes And Whale Foam
A collage of quirky musings and reader questions by L M Boyd covers drowning myths with autopsy notes, zodiac profiles from Capricorn to Pisces, a remark on Eagle Scouts linked to a Texas killer, whale foam and nitrogen bubbles, sugar grain counts, and a mailing address for submissions from Fort Worth Texas.
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LM Boyd
Fort Worth
Texas
Assault on Privacy. Brain Watching or Your Life
A New York era analysis warns that digital tracking could store a 12 page dossier on every American on a single reel of magnetic tape. Professor Arthur Miller argues centralized data banks risk misuses and privacy invasion, with medical and financial records exposed to varied interpretations and targeting.
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Washington
NEA
U.S
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Arthur Miller
University of Michigan Law School
Ann Arbor
Miller
Internal Revenue Service
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
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