Editorials in Alabama ethics law questioned by critics
The piece argues Alabama's ethics law, praised by Gov. George Wallace, is weak in practice and may impermissibly target reporters. It notes only two of five enforcement commissioners appointed, no prosecutions planned, and a provision requiring reporters to file detailed financial disclosures. It warns the law could chill press coverage and impose prior restraint, while highlighting political maneuvering behind its passage.
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Alabama
George Wallace
Wallace
Ethics Commission
Birmingham
Common Cause
State Senate
Senate
Crossword Fun Warns Readers About Misspellings
A reader notes a puzzle editor’s demand to spell egg center or part as OK E read as OKOE. Action Line jokes about oxen in an egg. The paper warns crossword lovers they may need to misspell to stay accurate about clues.
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Action Line
Action
Letters to the Editor Raise Urban Decay and Postal Frustrations
A reader complains about filthy sidewalks in the Cherry Anaheim and Pacific Coast Highway area, wheelchair access concerns, and neglect by business owners and city street sweepers. The letter laments high rents, asks for solutions, recalls Pat Horgan’s sidewalk cleaning, and mentions a lost fraternal bulletin mailed via the Long Beach Post Office. It ends with nostalgia for the Pony Express and a tip to mail Christmas cards early.
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Tara
Cherry
Anaheim
Parific Coast Highway
Pat Horgan
March
Adecor
Pony Express
St. Joseph
San Francisco
Cesert
Long Beach
Impeachment talk sidelines Nixon and Ford future
The piece argues impeachment is constitutionally limited to high crimes and misdemeanors, not political acts. It finds Ford unlikely to be elevated and notes the Twenty fifth Amendment flaws. Historian Irving Brant proposes a special presidential election after a non elected vice president succeeds.
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Washington
Richard Nixon
Nixon
Michigan
Ford
Free
Jerry Ford
Senate
Harry Byrd
Virginia
Janes Buckley
New York
Carl Albert
White House
Agnew
Albert
Oklahoma
Stete Irving Brant
Madison
Congress
Republic
Irving Brant
Israelis See Detente as a Ruse in Kissinger Visit
In Tel Aviv amid Kissinger’s Moscow trip to advance détente and an Arab-Israeli ceasefire, Israeli leaders and elites intensify anti Soviet and anti détente rhetoric. Begin and Dayan accuse Moscow of deceiving Washington to broaden Soviet leverage east of Suez, while pro Israel voices in Congress bolster hard line scrutiny of detente.
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Tel Aviv
Henry Kissinger
Moscoy
U.S
Soviet Union
Loth
Union
Robert Novak
Moshe Dayan
Israel
Henry M. Jackson
Jackson and Co
Kissinger
Nixon
Kremlin
Menachem Begin
Golda Meir
Knesset
Suez Canal
Mediterranean
Suez
Somalia
Aden
Saud Arabian
Tan
America
Begin
Mrs. Meir
Dayan
Moscow
Middle East
Egypt
Anwar Sadat
Fireworks loom in U.N. on Korean unification
A U.N. debate on Korea at the 28th General Assembly highlights a split over unification terms. China and Algeria back North Korea seeking to annul the UN flag and withdraw foreign troops, while the United States and allies push Security Council action within the armistice framework. The irony layers as the commission for Korean unification winds down, and North and South Korea approach membership with divergent goals.
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Vietnam
Soviet Union
China
United States
U.S
Algeria
North Korea
United Nations
South Korea
United Nations Command
Korea
U.N. Security Council
I‘tis
Couid
U.N
Commission For the Unification and Rehabilitation of
North
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