Editorial: UN's limits and the path to peace
The piece notes the United Nations 25th anniversary highlights its flaws in achieving world peace. It critiques power politics and sovereignty, U Thant's cautions, and the UN's impotence amid Arab Israeli tensions while urging the US to maintain strength to pursue peace with justice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations
General Assembly
Maldive Islands
Indian Ocean
Staten Island
U.S
United States
U Thant
Israel
Egypt
Jordan
Syria
Iraq
Thieves in Soviet Russia Spark Embezzlement Scandal
The Los Angeles Times reports a large scale embezzlement ring at the Memory of Lenin collective farm in Azerbaijan with officials from chairman to pickers involved. Across the USSR thefts flourish as shortages drive private sales and state goods rot or are diverted. The piece notes the existence of a term carrier for theft and questions whether such acts reflect failures of communism or echo latent enterprise in the West.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Azerbaijan
Ussr
Los Angeles Times
Communist Party
Siberian
Yakutsk
Rostov
Moscow
Ryazan
Kzvestia
Soviet Union
Harry Trimborn
Autumn daydreams in Boyle column spark offbeat schemes
HAL BOYLE riffs on autumn daydreams in a humorous list of wild ideas from placing vodka in the office cooler to launching a fake opium den and tying Santa to the North Pole. The column playful satirizes office life and mid century social quirks with grandiose schemes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hal Boyle
New York
Singapore
Bagatelle
Park Avenue
Sophia Loren
Ku Klux Klan
Jacqueline Bisset
Margaret Mead
Spiro Agnew
National Brotherhood
J. Edgar Hoover
North Pole
Today’s Funny Women Spend 95 Percent A He Rest
A quirky column notes women humorists allocate most spending to a few key items while others go unused. The piece blends playful social observation with light satire on budgeting and trend quirks.
Decade Of The Deep Foresees Ocean Era Of Discovery
A Scripps Institution of Oceanography director writes that the 1970s may exceed the space decade in scientific gain and economic benefit. He envisions floating platforms, underwater bases, and vast new fishing grounds while warning against pollution and international tensions over ocean use. The piece discusses energy, desalination, plankton, and the Deep Sea Drilling Project as pivotal steps toward deeper exploration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mariner
America
William A. Nierenberg
Associated Press
LA Jolla
Calif
United States
Russia
Beneth
Sea Lab
Pacific
Tektite
Atlantic
Agnew Dims GOP Chances in Texas
A NEA analysis argues Nixon Agnew tactics hurt GOP Senate hopes in Texas. Lloyd Bentsen trails in polls against Rep. George Bush, who faces fundraising strain and must mobilize 200000 Democratic votes to close a two million vote total. The Texas race remains close with LBJ Connally backing Bentsen and limited liberal support for Bush.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Nea
Senate
George Bush
Texas
Bush
Lloyd Bentsen
Ralph Yarborough
Lyndon Johnson
John Connally
Agnew
Bentsen
GOP
Yarborough
John Tower
Sen. Tower
Tower
Afl-Cio
Linwood Holton
Virginia
East
Nixon
Leninist Deceit in Soviet Middle East Strategy
A historical critique argues the Soviet Union uses negotiation as a tool for revolution and deceit. It cites Leninist doctrine, Brezhnev era policies, and past actors like Khrushchev and Gromyko to warn U.S. policymakers that good intentions may backfire against Marxist-Leninist aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations
N.Y
NEA
Mideast
Suez
Lenin
Kremlin
Brezhnev
Nixon
The
Guardian
Britain
Geneva
Middle East
Khrushchev
Eisenhower
Moscow
Russia
Mediterranean
Andrei Gromyko
Kennedy
Cuba
Ioe
Gromyko
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Bob Moore
Ord Rowden
Bonnie Clarley
South Cedar Street
Pecos
Boyle
Donald Jordon
Fort Worth
Tex
NEA, Inc
Elath
Berry's
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
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