Editorial urges freezing postal rate hikes to protect small publications
The piece argues that second class mail increases approved June 29 by the Board of Governors will mostly hurt magazines and readers of niche journals, not newspapers. It warns of a narrowed public dialogue if titles like Nation and New Republic are crushed and calls for Congress to freeze increases at 80 percent and extend the adjustment period to ten years.
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Secondass Mail
Board of Governors of
The
U.S. Postal Service
Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee
Congress
Sen. Gayloved Nelson
Wisconsin
Amtrak Saloons Debate Heads to Courts in Kansas Oklahoma
Prairie rail tale notes Amtrak trains with bar cars facing state officials in Kansas and Oklahoma who claim local liquor rules trump federal regulations. Courts may decide if beverage service must end or adjust while Amtrak contemplates responses and potential judge recusals.
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Amtrak
Kansas
Oklahoma
U.S
Letters to the editor raise church race, taxes, and crime concerns
Readers from Long Beach weigh in on sensitive issues. Bob Marshall objects to coverage of LDS Church president Joseph Fielding Smith’s death and defends opposition to Negro priesthood doctrine. Lem Levinson questions reassessment value and social security relief. Marie Paul condemns Mafia family violence and urges harmony. Margaret J Queen criticizes sensationalist depictions and advocates community goodwill.
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Elden L. Ashcrafl
Joseph Fielding Smith
LDS Church
Mr. Ashcraft
Long Beach
Bob Marshall
Keaven
Margaret J. Queen
Nixon Odds and Cold War Tensions Echo in 1960s Rhetoric
The piece weighs Nixon’s reelection odds at five to one as Jimmy the Greek Snyder offers political forecasts. It recounts Chou En-lai's Geneva handshakes with Dulles, Chinese-American tensions, and Sadat’s expulsion of Russian advisers amid worries of renewed Arab-Israeli conflict.
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Wasitington
George McGovern
Nixon
Jimmy
Dulles
Old Chau
Hale Uoggs
D-La
Gerald Ford
Mich
Peking
Chau
Bedell Smithy
Smith
Cairo
U.S
Egypt
Sadat
Leonid Brezhnev
Brezhnev
Israel
Nixo
Nawley
First Amendment Survival Amid Court Controversy
The June 29 Branzburg ruling sparked outcry, yet the term overall preserved First Amendment freedoms. The court upheld religious rights and free speech in notable cases, while some decisions on press confidentiality and surveillance drew critique. Despite tensions, the term showed more good than bad for free expression overall.
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Supreme Court
Branzburg
IRA split deepens as Provisionals clash with Officials
The Irish Republican Army is riven by ideological and strategic rifts between the Provisionals and Officials, each side pursuing a united secular Ireland. Officials advocate Marxist democracy and nonviolent tactics, while Provisionals push militant methods, aiming for peace through negotiations yet ready to use force if needed.
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John Montage
Irish Republican Army
Ireland
IRA
Britain
Ulster
Dublin
Marx
Lenin
Castro
Stalin
Tito
Mao Tse- Tung
Miss de Burea
Nixon
David
Davey) O'Connell
Provisionals
O'Connell
Ths
Che Guevara
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Sion
America
Nation
New Republic
National Review
Human Events
Lem Levinson
Sterling Bemis
Preying Together
Geneva
Indochina
Chou
Hlale
Fack Andorzsen
Wen TR
Laird
Tati
Kleindienst
Mandel
American University
Pappas
Caldwell
Justice Powell
Powall
Central Connecticut State Collegea
Students For A’ Democratic Society
Massachusetts
Rockford, Ill
James
Sinn Fein
Maria de Burea
Kildare
CL. Sulzberger
NEW York Times News Service
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