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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1968
Page
9
Public access rights under the Brown Act are defended as Assemblyman James A. Hayes promotes AB 202 to require open meetings for county or city advisory bodies that use tax funds. The measure extends Brown Act protections to boards commissions and committees created by charter ordinance or other acts, curbing private deliberations.
The Soviet Union wins a vote at the UN Commission on Human Rights to erase Arthur Goldberg’s protest about the imprisonment of dissenting Russian writers. Critics argue double standards allow Moscow to condemn U.S. policy while stifling its own. The piece links the rhetoric to Orwellian themes and declares 1984 is already here for the Soviet regime.
Readers criticize private rail ownership for limiting passenger service and argue for public control. Council members discuss Vietnam war costs and a call for a presidential plan with commitments. Readers question marijuana laws and demand clearer government research on the drug’s harm and policy.
The new price system for gold is a shortsighted stopgap and likely short lived. It may raise as many problems as it solves. President Johnson has pledged to keep the $35 an ounce price, and Federal Reserve Chair William McChesney Martin has pledged to...
Henry Hazlitt explains how central banks' gold pool and the 1961 1967 agreements create a two price system for gold and threaten dollar value. He notes a premium on gold at $40 and predicts continued doubts about dollar convertibility as private buyers shift to free market prices.
From the National Bureau a Washington observer notes McCarthy and Kennedy fault President Johnson over division and disaster in Vietnam policy. McCarthy argues America is not content with a costly war, while Kennedy defends executive responsibility and calls for a critical review of the administration, citing gold and balance of payments concerns and civil rights steps tempered by post‑south unrest.
The piece weighs how Lyndon Johnson moved past Congress, notes Senator Kennedy cannot prove his brother would not have acted as Johnson did, and asserts the Diem regime’s 1963 overthrow as a disaster amid reflections on national division and mutual accommodation.
Fragmentary quotation reflects on departure and next world, citing Jeremiah 22 30 and noting Dean Pal Richter as a source or recipient in a literary aside. The passage blends a biblical verse with literary commentary about departure and memory.
In a metropolitan tale of Byington Boone the self styled pathfinder longs for past days. He laments modern city life and rails against paternalistic machines while speaking to his wife Evangeline about understanding water and progress.
Arthur and Evangeline Boone abandon civilization for wilderness living during a strike and facing a harsh fate. The husband pursues log cabins and hunting while planning a self sufficient life. months later he dies of boredom as the wife and child stay on with garden and game. The county doctor warns that city folk are no longer fit for pioneer life.
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