Senate failure blocks $3.5 billion California water plan
Editorial argues the California Senate blocked Sen. Ruben Ayala's SB 346, ending a $3.5 billion long term water program through a two thirds vote defeat. It notes drought pressures, regional fights around the Sacramento delta, and the need for northern and southern cooperation, urging January action to remedy the failure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
State Senate
Gay. Brown
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
San Francisco Bay
Ruben S. Ayala
D-San Bernardino
The
Sierra Club
Delta
San Joaquin Valley
Sacramento River
Long Beach
Colorado River
Metropolian Water District
Arizona
Colorado
MWD
Class of 41G wings at eight fields gather for reunion
The 41G AAC flying class, once 1000 pilots at Barksdale Brooks Kelly Craig Maxwell Alan Luke Stockton Mather fields, celebrated a four day reunion at the Queensway Hilton Hotel with about 150 members attending today. The group, now 482 strong with eastern and western divisions, first met in 1952 in Washington and holds a combined meeting every five years.
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U.S Army Air Corps
Barksdale Field
Brooks and Kelly Fields
Texas
Craig
Maxwell
Alan Luke
Field
Ariz
Stockton and Mather Fields
Cal
AAC
Pearl Harbor
Queensway Hilton
Washington
D.C
Pentagon
Mobile
Ala
Long Beach
Truth squads to dog Carter on canal issue
Don Shoemaker Kiaighi-Richter reports on the era’s canal treaty clash with references to Truth Sats following Carter and figures like Thurmond Helms and La Follette. The piece compares modern political strategy to Wilson and the League of Nations fight, noting intense opposition and the prophetic warning about future warfare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truth Squads
Carter
Ronald Heagan
Strom Thuemardl
Jesse Helis
Carolinas
Ronald Reazan
Henry Cabot Lorge
Case Rulns
William F. Borah
Strom Thurmond
Robert la Folletta
Woodrow Wilson
League of Nations
Wilson
Paris
League
Treaty
Wilson era Panama Treaty Debate and 1919 Senate Split
Fragmented account recalls Wilson collapsing in 1919 amid treaty battles. It contrasts then Senate opposition led by Lodge with today’s largely Democratic majority and mixed views on canal status. It notes Carter and Ford positions and hints at secrecy around treaty clauses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hal
England
Wilson
Pue- Wo
Colo
Senate
Joruly
Lodge
Crats
Paris
Jimmy Carter
Congress
Tony
Carter
Ford
Useos
Panama
Teddy
Roosevelt
League
Setrici
Oser
Copeland Principle Called For In Government Litigation
Federal observers urge reverse accountability after Barbara Copeland winner in a Pratt court ruling. The piece argues government lawyers should bear costs and fees when courts find abuses or frivolous proceedings, citing EEOC and CPSC cases as examples of prosecutorial overreach and the need for personal liability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Barbara Copeland
Consumer Services
Pratt
Copeland
Consumer Product Safety Commission
CPSC
Commission
Zan Tain
Equal Employment Opportunities Commission
EEO
EEOC
Fime
Occupational Safety and Health
EKOC
KGB Proposes Half‑Million Bribe to Tallinn Dissident
The report details a 1974 75 KGB operation to recruit Estonian nationalist Erick Adam with up to 500000 rubles to fund a dissident front. Adam refused, noting the plan sought to entangle anti Soviet activists through money and false information while pressuring him to recruit Americans. The saga links to Helsinki monitors and broader Soviet efforts to subvert civil rights movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Kremlin
KGB
Erick Adam
Yuri Andropov
Adam
Estonia
Tallin
Comenand
Helsinki
Samy
Moscow
Yuri Orlov
Finland
London Financial Times
David Satter
Riga-Tallin
Satter
Anatoli Scharansky
Belgrade
Tech
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Linen
Pengo TE
Don Shoemaker
Kiaighi-Richter
Untouchables
James F
Robert Novak
Inside Report
Rowland Evans
Independent — Press-Telegram
Daniel H. Ridder
Samuel C. Cameron
Miles Sines
Executve
Baitde
Dro Ohl
David Levinson
Bert Resnik
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