Square deal for veterans in education health care housing
The piece argues for a broad square deal for returning veterans involving education support, health care, housing, and loans. It cites Roosevelt and Nixon, notes VA programs offering college allowances, on the job training, free hospitalization for service injuries, disability compensation, and guaranteed housing loans. It urges federal, state, local, and business action to expand veteran employment, highlighting a 1971–72 unemployment drop to 5.7 percent and calling for lasting measures to ensure veterans receive full opportunities in peacetime America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore Roosevelt
Nixon
Veterans
Korea
E. J. Klay
Veterans Administration Hospital
Long Beach
America
Credit vs cash feel the pinch at car rental line
David K. E. Bruce, newly named U.S. ambassador to China, tried to rent a car at Washington National Airport with a $400 cash deposit and a secretary of state certificate. A clerk demanded a credit card, sparking a lesson on the primacy of credit in modern transactions. The rental firm later corrected the policy, noting cash is acceptable against an estimated rental fee.
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David K. E. Bruce
U.S
China
Washington National Airport
Bruce
William Rogers
Tom Braden
Braden
Southland Sunday
Aras
Betty Edwards
Ms. Edwards
Edwards
Long Beach
Nixon says press should have been believed during Watergate
Washington reports that Nixon acknowledges taking reports from aides as truth and faulting the press for impugning his administration. He suggests earlier, firmer probes might have preserved White House credibility while noting the Post and others kept the matter alive. The piece debates whether media or Sirica broke the scandal and rejects the idea of a pure vendetta by a biased press.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
White House
Justice Department
Washington Post
John J. Sirica
Long Beach
Independent
Press-Telegram
Santa Monica
Stephen W. Solomon
Underground paper debate sparks Long Beach reader letters
Readers contest Denise Kusel's claim on underground school papers. Gregory Wesby, Greg Stuart, Stephen Solomon and others cite Loudmouth at Wilson High and Rising Star style efforts, noting decades of underground press activity, censorship battles, and district impact including 1968 1969 reforms and the 1989 Dialogue forum.
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Denise Kusel
Long Beach
Loudmouth
Wilson High
Wilson
Rising Star
Dialogue
The
Unitarian Church
Millikan, Jordan
Lakewood
Humph
Fiasco of Viet truce shames ICCS role in South Vietnam
A Hungarian ICCS official boasted of protecting the PRG, revealing how Soviet direction civilly undermines the Paris accord and Nixon Kissinger aims. The piece cites repeated, ludicrous Polish and Hungarian actions, the Canadian protest, and Indonesian doubt, warning the ceasefire is not real peace.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
International Commission of Control and Supervision
ICCS
PRG
North Vietnam
U.S
Henry A. Kissinger
Moscow
Hanoi
Hungary
Poland
Nixon
Kissinger
Sa Huynh
Vietnam
COS
Hang Na
Cambodian
Warsaw- Budapest
Canada
United States
Indonesia
Kremlin
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Helen WM. Arnett
Apt Pe
Rober Novak
Inside Report
Owls
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