Keeping a cool head in a tense police encounter
An editorial recounts the Southland Sunday piece about Joanne Schiessmayer, a housewife arrested after her son rode a rail bike toward a block. She was handcuffed, choked, and yelled at, while the officer scolded her. Charges were dropped and the court gave a stern admonition. The piece urges citizens to cooperate and police to handle incidents with tact and restraint to avoid fear and resentment.
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Schuesmayer Yard
Tong Beach
California Board Mulls Tough New Graduation Standards
The California Board of Education considers statewide graduation benchmarks that would require graduates to read newspapers and tax forms, write a clear letter, perform basic arithmetic, and spell the 3000 most common words. Critics fear these are the nation’s strictest standards and warn of illiteracy among future voters.
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Californa Board of Education
California
Unfair accusation in letters to the editor
A reader denounces an accusation of vandalism against Mr Niven and recounts issues buying Cal State Long Beach tickets. Frustration with ticketing staff and ushers is voiced after a disappointing basketball game experience at Long Beach Sports Arena.
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Tyta Bernstein
Mr. Niven
USC
Ohio State
Vatricia Biorkman
Long Beach
Cal State Long Beach
Cal State L.A
Couns
Lvlcony
KGB ties to Oswald and the détente struggle
The account cites Yuri Nosenko and John Barron in a Reader's Digest Press book asserting a KGB link to Lee Harvey Oswald, involving secret dossiers and near-miss Moscow Minsk actions. It notes psychiatrists found Oswald abnormal but not insane, and details his 1950s to 1960s attempts to reenter the Soviet Union blocked by the KGB.
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Washington
Ube Ayrest
Lee Harvey Oswald
Kenwily
Bortber
Moscow
Minsk
Kremlin
Oswald
KGH
Feaders
KGB
Vasl
KOR
Yuri Nosenko
Sevret Police
Tachiy
John Barron
Nosenko
U.S
Rowianig Evansee Union
Babassy
Cuba
Dallas
Barron
Pervasi International
Reader’s Digest Press
KGB influence and detente tested by Western disclosure
Western security agencies push for more public details on KGB operations as the Kremlin widens its internal purge and expands overseas pressure. Barron and Cline argue KGB threats grow with detente, shaping Soviet commerce and policy from Moscow to Bonn and beyond.
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KGB
Thl
Kremin
TL Andon Based
Institute For the Study
NATO
Kremlin
Soviet Chamber of Commerce
Yevgenii Petrovich Pilov- Tangy
Barran
Soviet Union
Pilovranov
Chamber of Commerce
Bonn
Nikita Khrushchev
West Germany
Khrushchev
Moscow
West Europe faces labor squeeze as cheap energy ends
Western Europe’s postwar boom depended on cheap energy and abundant immigrant labor. With cheap petroleum gone, millions of migrant workers from Algeria, Morocco, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Turkey, and Yugoslavia face unemployment. Expected repatriation could trigger social unrest and depress economies in origin regions, while remittance losses threaten crisis-level downturns.
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Paris
Europe
Algeria
Morocco
Spain
Portugal
Italy
Greece
Turkey
Yugoslavia
West
Mediterranean Basin
Simon battles for credibility in energy drive
Washington. Federal Energy Office head William E. Simon faces a credibility gap as he pursues an aggressive open-government approach. He argues public belief in energy conservation hinges on trust in officials and industry restraint amid suspicions of profiteering and Watergate fallout. IRS raids 2200 stations yield 409 price violations as a deterrent to gouging.
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CPT
William E. Simon
Simon
Federal Energy Office
Nixon
Internal Revenue Service
Justice Department
Stimon
Big Business
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Economist” of London
Ford
Cologne
CG. Sulzberger
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