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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1967
Page
10
A brief item from Monday January 16 1967 in Long Beach California references local happenings and a succinct note about Blu. The readable fragments imply a community brief or notices column detailing a short event or announcement within the city.
The piece argues that China’s internal convulsions under Mao and Lin Piao, with Liu Shao chi factions, create uncertain futures for foreign relations. It warns against assuming calmer external risks, noting 800 million Chinese become faceless amid power struggles and information blackouts, reducing the One World ideal to a casualty of upheaval.
The 1987 county grand jury, 15 men and eight women chosen from 124 nominees by Superior Court judges, will spend a year in secret inquiry with broad self directed powers. The jury skews older, with many retirees and managers, raising questions about representativeness and civic duty. They face scrutiny over whether they will seek cures as much as expose ills while considering poverty and underachievement.
Gov Reagan plans continued enforcement of capital punishment despite ACLU requests to spare six men sentenced to die at San Quentin. He says he will review cases on their merits, not grant a blanket reprieve, and notes the law limits his power to end the death penalty. court action or legislative and voter avenues may follow.
The article compares President Johnson's 1968 budget estimate of 135 billion dollars with a possible 100 billion rise since Truman's 1948 budget. It notes postwar deficits, wartime outlays, and projections for fiscal 1968 and beyond amid rising federal outlays and Vietnam-era costs.
The nation faces rising tax burdens as Johnson advocates targeted increases to fund deficits, amid debate over the effectiveness and political risk of broad tax boosts. lawmakers weigh the durability of the 1984 tax cuts while pressing for administration reforms to extract more value from every dollar.
A satirical piece describes an advance team for a mock Ninth Crusade to Cuba, detailing fake refugee leaders and fractured groups in a fragmented Miami scene. The narrator jokes about recruiting Cuban refugees and cites figures like Jure and Manuel Artime amid a playful takedown of refugee politics.
Arthur Hoppe outlines militant and moderate Cuban exile factions and possible backers within the FBI or CIA. A character offers an invasion plan for 50 gees with payment due on capture, suggesting targets like Haiti or Guatemala, and jokes about attempting Cuba.
The piece debates Black Power as a phrase and concept in the Negro movement, noting white alarm at Black Power while acknowledging long-standing white control. Richmond Flower reflects on reactions to Stokely Carmichael and the idea that Black Power represents organized influence rather than violence.
Reporter notes how Black Power, shaped by Carmichael and SNCC, wields collective power and pride. It sparks white discomfort and Black anger, seen not as a call to violence but as a warning that restraint breaks under frustration. The younger generation demands change on its own timetable.
Br C Eric Lincoln, sociology professor, argues Black Power rhetoric could benefit the nation by giving oppressed Black Americans a vicarious outlet for hostility. He notes white reactions reflect own attitudes and consciences, and that Black Power seeks equality through power rather than superiority or takeover.
Mrs Joyce Carsten of Seal Beach writes to Open Forum opposing tuition charges in the University of California and state college systems. She notes students self fund, recounts her daughter’s low wages, and urges educational expansion while resisting increased political control over universities. She warns against regressive social programs and calls for broader taxation on business.
Editor Compton endorses Open Forum writer Clifford Hertley for criticizing hospitals and doctors. He argues medical providers should serve people over profit and chastises the industry for exploiting human misery.
Mrs Tracy Snider is urged to respond to a December 30 1968 piece. The writer says a gracious gesture at a time of death was misinterpreted and that gratitude is not required, criticizing the assumption friends are ingrates if they do not reply. Long Beach signer T M Shallensberger.
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