Editorial endorses Rancho Palos Verdes incorporation
The editorial urges August 28 vote to create a new city on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. It notes 36,000 residents across about 10 square miles, with motives to preserve coastline and gain local control. It argues the Local Agency Formation Commission finds viability and urges voters to approve incorporation despite a protest petition tied to land value.
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Palos Verdes Peninsula
Rancho Palos Verdes
Los Angeles
Peninsula
Rolling Hills
Rolling Hills Estates
Palos Verdes Estates
Soviet critique labels Sesame Street neocolonial cultural flood
A Soviet cultural paper denounces Sesame Street as neocolonialism and warns that global television aims to penetrate homes. The same text notes Mighty Mouse and Lassie aired in Russia while Brezhnev proclaims detente, hinting at enduring cultural paranoia.
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Mickey Mouse
Mickey
Sovetskaya Kultura
Ali Baba
Little Red Riding Hood
Huckleberry Finn
Mighty Mouse
Lassie
Letters to the editor stir coastal views on post office
A Long Beach reader defends the postal service amid growing complaints about mail delivery amid high rise growth and complex dwellings. Other letters criticize welfare assertions and urge fair treatment of poor and real-world conditions, noting personal hospital experiences and public policy critiques.
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Long Beach
Loma
Fourth
Fair City
Postal Service
Uncle Sam
You
Elliott
Dana Howe
Sacramento
California
Hawaiian Gardens
Blaksler
Dope Tycoons Live in Splendor Across Europe and US
Washington reports on a classified Justice Department document describing the hidden heroin trade. It portrays European and global operatives living lavishly, with Mercedes and elite connections, while U.S. demand feeds the network. The report notes no single boss, but small groups control morphine base facilities and investment capital.
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Washington
Europe
United States
Justice Department
The
Justice Narcotics Report
Jacques
Strasbourg
Engelhardt
Georges
Jim
Narcatics
Maurice Castellani
New York
Paris
Claude Marceu
Laneia
Congress should move warily on pension laws
Congress faces a pivotal fall debate on two private pension bills outlined after August recess. The issue affects about 85 million workers in 200,000 plans with assets estimated at 160 to 200 billion dollars. Critics urge cautious federal regulation, citing safeguards while warning against radical reform as the system proves broadly functional.
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Senate
House
Congress
Labor Department
Bracy D. Smith
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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Mario Biaggi
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U.S
Paul Vionees
Ala
Jack Anderson
Ralph Naderane
Michigan
Philip Tart
Senate Labor Committee
Pensioners of Horn & Hardart
Philadelphia
National Broadcasting Company
Cafe Galvani
Royal Bus
Madrid
Ranch Kentucky
Marseilles
Gagnes Tace
America
West Germany
France
Plaza Athenee
Toriton
Robert
Pierre
Pierrot” Roggiero
Henri Ronesio
Andre Hirsch
Humane Society
Gainesville
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Army
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