A mandate for honesty and reform in state politics
Editorial urges openness amid voter discontent after Tuesday's election. It critiques Proposition 9 as unconstitutional in parts while urging honest campaigns and stronger public participation. It notes races statewide and locally, including Reinecke’s defeat, Flournoy’s nomination, and incumbent judges’ status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Reinecke
Houston Flournoy
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Bill Norris
Vincent Bugtosi
Sith
John Waterbury
Wayne Sharp
Waterbury
Sharp
Bill Bagley
James Flournoy
Los Angeles
Joan Dempsey Klein
Bonnie Lee Martin
Washington
California
Obscenity and censorship in a 1980s letters page
A reader catalogs perceived obscenities in politics and media from 1980s America including governor remarks on a botulism outbreak, wartime casualties, Watergate fallout, obscene content in magazines and libraries, and moral policing debates. The piece closes with a defiant wartime slogan and a fierce rebuke of opponents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom
Long Beach
Annapolis
White House
United States
Watergate targets Kennedy and O'Brien outlined in White House files
Washington sources say confidential documents show the Nixon White House viewed Senator Ted Kennedy as the major foe and planned to use staff and operatives, including O'Brien, to influence the 1972 nomination. Investigations into Kennedy and O'Brien were ordered, with surveillance and probes extending to Honolulu and Chappaquiddick incidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
White House
Ted Kennedy
D-Mass
Nixon
Kennedy
Larry O’brien
George McGovern
D-8.d
Honolulu
Ontani
Hawaii
Rome
Charles
Colson
Tom Charles Winston
Chappaquiddick
Caulfield
Hunt
Ulasewicz
Kenedy
Emk
Lloyd Mastin
Kenne
Huston
O'Brien
PAA
Haldeman
Howard Hughes
Hughes
Jack Anderson
O’brien
John Dean
GSA
McGovern
How secure is Social Security A critical look at a decade of funding claims
This five part series concludes with Warren Shore of Chicago Today arguing the U S Social Security system is bankrupt like the Penn Central. He contends payroll taxes have funded current benefits instead of a true reserve, masking a looming financial crisis for future workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren Shore
Chicago Today
United States
Social Security
Illinois Department
State Insurances Department
Congress
Social Security Administration
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Mike Cullen
Fred Chel
Sumner Offill
James Gray
Offill
George Deukmejian
Deukmejian
Bill Bond
Lakewood
Mark Hannaford
Southern California Rapid Transit District
Richard Nixon
Playboy
Vatican
Florence
Ted
Diamond Head Road
Honourus
Sai
Benvings
Shalom
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