Editorial on American responses to violence and Kennedy assassination
The essay argues Americans react with sympathy and restraint after violence, not hatred, citing surveys on trust, views of death, and school integration before and after Kennedy’s murder. It credits the national mood to political maturity and urges continued reflection on that temper.
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America
George Wallace
Lee Harvey Oswald
Sirhan Sirhan
Presi
Dent John Kennedy
Dallas
John Kennedy
Paul B. Shearsley
Norman M. Bradburn
National Opinion Research Center
University of Chicago
American Psychological Association
Letters to the editor Getting out of Vietnam
Readers clash with editorials on Vietnam policy. Long Beach resident Gene Wall argues for bringing Americans home and questions government aims while Jean Potter of San Pedro doubts the sincerity of administration peace terms and accuses Nixon of maneuvering to keep the war alive.
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Vietnam
Long Beach
Gene Wall
Thieu
Haiphong
Hanoi
Moscow
Thailand
San Pedro
Jean Potter
Pipeline Across Canada Meets Oil Pipeline Crossroads
The editor argues for a trans Canada oil pipeline, noting Rogers Morton approved the Alaska pipeline revealing environmental costs and security tradeoffs. The piece contends shipping oil by sea risks ecosystems and economies, urging Canada to host the line to protect wilderness and U S energy supplies.
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Secretary of the Interior
Rogers C. B. Morton
Morton
Canada
United States
Long Beach
Jon W. Sering
Law and Order and the Call for Justice
A Long Beach column criticizes how calls for "law and order" can mask injustice. It argues true law and order require justice, pointing to anti Jewish laws in Germany, Jim Crow in the U S South, women’s rights restrictions, and Indian injustices as examples of failed law without justice.
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George Putnam
Russia
Germany
U.S
Long Beach
Nations test common sense in Moscow talks
After long clashes the United States and the Soviet Union plan limited cooperation in arms control trade and space with talks in Moscow. Brezhnev and Nixon confront remaining ideological divides while acknowledging shared interest in avoiding war curbing the arms race and expanding trade amid pressures from Vietnam and global tensions in Europe and Asia.
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Washington
United States
Soviet Union
Berlin
Middle East
Korea
Vietnam
Cuba
Organization of Western Europe
Moscow
Poland
Nixon
China
Brezhnev
Hue
Swan Lake
Bolshoi
Europe
Mao Tse-tung
Peking
Chiang Kai-shek
Taipei
Eisaku Sato
Tokyo
European
Kremlin
U.S
Indochina
Britain
West Germany
East Germany
Israel
Suppressed reports say Calley unstable at time of massacre
Reports allege Lieutenant William Calley showed mental disorders during the My Lai massacre. Psychologists said he was unstable and possibly deranged, while Army psychiatrists deemed him normal. Suppressed documents reveal tests suggesting serious personality pathology and potential psychosis at the time.
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Calley
Washington
William Calley
My Lai
George Latimer
Latimer
Eugene Stammeyer
Washington, D.C
Artha Weider
New York City
Weider
Roosevelt Hospital
American Orthopsychiatric Association
Welder
Nixon may ask Connally to negotiate Vietnam peace
Washington sources say President Nixon might task John B. Connally with a short term effort to broker a settlement in Vietnam after Connally’s Treasury tenure ends. Possible targets include the Paris peace talks, with aims for a quick breakthrough and potential future roles for Connally in Nixon’s administration or party.
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Nixon
Connally
Vietnam
Washington
John B. Connally
Secretary of the Treasury
Moscow
Paris
GOP
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Beiter
Churchill
Jasa
James Reston
NEW York Times News Service
Stammeyer
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital
Catholic University
Wilbur Hamman
St. Elizabeth's
Albert LaVerne
LaVerne
Merry
Jack Anderson
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