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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1970
Page
5
A police station security debate in Southern California contrasts fortress mentality with public access. A sergeant warns against a police state while a lieutenant worries about being sitting ducks amid bombings and sniper fire. The exchange highlights tension between readiness and community trust.
A syndicated column contends that Spiro Agnew denounces media bias while Attorney General Mitchell subpoenas reporters and their notes. The piece, echoed by humorist Art Buchwald, warns about the implications for journalism and national life.
Readers defend and criticize Tom Wicker's column on the Chicago Seven. A letter urges strict punishment for rioters, praising Judge Hoffman for protecting rights while opposing street protests. Other correspondence criticizes doctor hospital economics and questions tuition policy impacts on future students and loans.
Lakesgood L. G. Sunderman thanks the Orange County Board of Supervisors for restoring public beach use from Sunset to Salt Creek. He recalls fishing there before developers restricted access and urges all counties to pursue Supreme Court decisions affirming the public right to view and enjoy the ocean and shoreline.
Washington reports Nixon must decide within a month on selling more Phantom jet bombers to Israel. The move raises questions beyond arms for Israel as global power shifts, with Soviet influence described as the era’s key strategic change since World War II.
James Reston argues Moscow pursues a multi track strategy in Europe and the Middle East, forcing Nixon to balance arms control with power dynamics. He warns that Phantom jets offer short term reach but real influence rests with US guarantees to Israel and Arab states amid Soviet expansion. The Middle East is the cockpit of world politics.
Washington reports that the Nixon Administration gained unusual Democratic support for its reshaping of welfare. Rep. Phillip Burton of San Francisco, a liberal Democrat with high ADA ratings, led a welfare panel within the 120-member Democratic study group to back the Family Assistance plan.
The article details Burton and Veneman shaping welfare policy to reduce poverty, with Burton advocating replacing the present system and Veneman defending work incentives. It notes California’s AFDC figures, the Nixon plan's $1600 family benefit, and Utt’s 1969 role in lifting a welfare freeze, amid liberal and conservative support.
New York report emphasizes that the Safeguard anti ballistic missile system is viewed as a diplomatic issue more than a military one. It argues the United States must keep pace in defensive weapons to maintain alliance cohesion or face European allies negotiating separately with Moscow as U S troops are reduced this decade. Senator Mansfield voices a national mood on the matter.
Senator Percy warns against shrinking US NATO funding and forces as European states pare their contributions. He argues for a return to mass retaliation without a robust allied conventional backbone and urges an ABM shield to protect North America and deterrence against limited Soviet strikes.
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