Dickens Warnings Echo Through Time On Doomsday Fears
A columnist compares modern gloom about crime, debt, protest, and politics to a 1842 letter by Charles Dickens noting a decayed free state. The piece recalls his fear of a headless nation and rampant party press, but tempers doom with faith in freedom and ongoing public discourse.
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Public relations staff in federal agencies under review
The AP found 6,858 public relations workers in government three years ago at an estimated cost of 425 million dollars. The Nixon administration now asks agencies to count their PR staff and determine spending, with a potential prune to improve taxpayer relations.
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Asahi Shimbun's Expo 70 roll to print at home idea
Japan's largest paper with about 9 million readers faces delivery gridlock in Tokyo. Expo 70 may showcase a low cost device that transmits signals from the office to print the paper at the subscriber's home, though reproduction quality lags behind the standard product.
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Today's Books and Trials Review Taste of Navajo and Law
Walter L. Bateman’s The Navajo of the Painted Desert surveys 1000 years of Navajo life in northwestern Arizona through tribal storytelling and careful research. Six Trials edited by Robert Brombaugh analyzes Socrates Galileo John Brown Dreyfus Scopes and Sacco and Vannetti, noting courts favored law and order in each verdict.
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Caliphate lesson for Nixon on listening to youth
The letter urges President Nixon to meet cabinet members individually to gain insight into public issues. It notes growing presidential isolation, bureaucratic inertia, and reliance on staff reports, with examples from Haroun al Rashid, Johnson era outreach, and Nixon’s home-front knowledge gaps highlighted by university presidents and a Cambodian invasion poll.
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Armageddon fears flare as regional tensions rise
The piece discusses growing hostility between Israel and Arab states, warning of intensified guerilla raids and air incidents amid a grim potential for broader conflict in the Holy Land.
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Quaker Plan for Middle East Peace Faces Skepticism
Russell Kirk discusses a recent Friends Service Committee document advocating international buffer zones under UN authority to calm Israel Arab tensions. The piece questions feasibility of policing disputed territories and suggests Turkish troops as a neutral force to avert a direct US Soviet clash and preserve access to Jerusalem.
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Letters on social issues from Long Beach readers
An editor's page features letters criticizing a 12th Step house for men, teachers during strikes, school buildings, and modesty in church. Contributors from Long Beach discuss responsibility, discipline, and public conduct, naming professions and behaviors with pointed moral judgments.
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