Editorials: South Korea's CIA Oversight and Unrest
The piece analyzes South Korea under President Park Chung-hee, detailing CIA involvement in suppressing dissent and controlling media and churches. It notes Park's 1971 third-term move, dismissal of Lee Hu-rak, ongoing censorship, and the likely rise of unrest if authoritarian rule persists, with world attention on reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Korea
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
Park Chung-Hee
Park
Lee Hukak
Lee
Lee Hu Rak
Tokyo
Pee
Computers vs Editors Stir National Observer Casserole Rows
A cartoonish skirmish unfolds as editors and readers clash with computer misreads over a National Observer casserole recipe. Misprints swapped curry and soup amounts trigger letters accusing authors of payoffs and faulty taste judgments while computers mutter errors like NOT ALLOWED and sign on, please.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Observer
Jacksonville
Fla
Navy
Washington, D.C
Letters to the Editor from Long Beach readers
Readers thank the Postal Service for recovering lost tickets after a vacation mishap. Others mock bus token changes and joke about White House tape rumors with Nixon. A writer signs as Tom Labubert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Postal Service
Long Beach
White House
Richard Nixon
Johnny Cash
Washington Redskins
New Orleans
Philadelphia
Mark Spitz
Henry Kissinger
United States
Tom Labubert
The Saturday Night Special and Gun Debate
Book review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt discusses Robert Sherrill s The Saturday Night Special, critiquing its bleak view of American gun culture and politics. The essay notes Sherrill s sharp humor and despair, arguing guns reflect frontier myths and societal waste.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Sherrill
Julio Fernandez
Charterhouse
Splentie
Sherrill
America
Emma Lazarus
Ife
Killing a few hogs in the hills
In SCRABBLE VIRGINIA Tommy and Doro Taylor with sons Tom and Bill and a crew slaughter hogs by the Thornton River. The piece paints a fading rural rite as regulation and markets push out home but the Taylors and neighbors persist with traditional processing from slaughter to lard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scrabble
Tommy
Dorothy Taylor
Tom
Bill
North Fork
Thornton River
Rappahannock County
Culpeper
Warrenton
Taylors
Paul Alther
Lee Fincham
Sleepy Fincham
Washington
Johnny Alther
Hilda Alther
Mywife
Hilda
Thompson
Susan
Althers
Odd Quotes From Published Pieces
A collection of aphorisms and quotes from various publications. It references a mad dash by a wild turkey outrunning a horse in November and notes on temptation and female empowerment. Includes lines from Christian Science Monitor Front Line Cedar Rapids and Irish Digest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Science
Manua
Senator Soaper on Metrics and Public Safety
The speaker predicts highway signs will switch to metric units to imply greater distance and notes fears that new belt/clog platform designs could endanger women drivers and even pedestrians. The remarks touch on governance, legitimacy of laws, and the challenge of finding consensus on the law.
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Real Postal Service
Long
Jerome Manhein
Simca
Christopher Lehmann
HAUPT
New York Times News Service
Calamity Jane
Jesse James
Hollywood
Congress
National Rifle Association
NRA
Cvis Ptc
James J
Cedar Rapids
Irish Digest
Senator Soaper
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