Warnke Confirmation Intensifies US Arms Control Debate
The New York Times notes Paul Warnke's Senate confirmation as Carter's top arms negotiator sparks a national split over nuclear strategy. Advocates push for rapid arms control talks while opponents warn that more weapons may entrench parity and provoke a new Soviet buildup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Warnke
Carter
Senate
Warnke
Soviet Union
New York
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Moynihan
America
Vietnam
Kissinger
Vance
Brown
United States
Moscow
New York Times
Blossoms satire sparks Klan push for equal time on Roots
A satirical piece proposes a TV rebuttal titled Blossoms. It follows Kinte on a beach in Africa and a cruise to Atlantic City, where he finds work and a new life with Massa Greene before a choral tease about race and track stars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ku Klux Klan
America
Africa
Kinte Kunta
Asner
Fun Times Travel Service
Kinte
Atlantic City
Gambia
Annapolis
Massa Lorne Greene
Massa Greene
Civil Service bill faces House vote in West Virginia
The Democratic majority moves a revamped Civil Service bill through the House Finance Committee toward a floor vote. It aims to restore about 8,000 jobs previously state employees and restructures the three member Civil Service commission. Some Democrats oppose patronage restoration citing partisan aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dell
James Teets
Larry Swann
House
Finance Committee
Teets
George Farley
D - Wood
Arch Moore
Moore
Del
Larry Souis
D - Kanawha
Robert Harman
Harman
Federal
Congress
Civil Service
Soviet critique of U S rights spurs call for reform
The piece argues U S rights rhetoric clashes with realities under McCarran Act and Smith Act. It cites visa denials for Australian Communist Mundey and Italian Communist Anita, and cites Carter moves toward Helsinki compliance. It urges repeal of political tests for admission and broader refugee openness. It frames liberty as law based and urges removal of restraints on dissent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tass
United States
State Department
Jack Mundey
Mundey
U.S
AFL - Cio
Justice Holmes
Ford Administration
New York
Council On Foreign Relations
Anita
Washington
Helsinki
McCarran
Carter
Junta
Jefferson
Katie Dunn and Dr Ralston Lead Bridge Handicap Scores
Mrs Katie Dunn and Dr M M Ralston topped a bridge handicap event under the Southern West Virginia Contract Bridge League scoring 85 points to share high honors this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katie Dunn
M. M. Ralston
Diary notes shed light on early 1900s rural communication
The 1901 diary of Table Rock farmer merchant Oliver Scott reveals how news traveled by drummers from Pittsburgh Cincinnati Roanoke and Charleston and mail by horseback or wagon twice daily from Washington and Cincinnati. It records Victoria's death and local events plus road upkeep funded by taxation and severe late April 1901 weather with heavy snow and river damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver Scott
Times
Table Rock
H. H. Lowery
Queen Victoria
Cincinnati
Lena Cunningham
Grandview
Scott
Pittsburgh
Roanoke
Charleston
Scott's
Prince Station
C&o
Washington
Points East
Points West
Pony Express
Herblock
Washington, D.C
Register
The
Post
Enquirer
Crow
Disputed Islands Loom Over Soviet Japanese Fishery Talks
A territorial clash over four Kurile Islands shadows planned fishery talks in Moscow on March 15. Japan seeks return of Habomai Shikotan Kunashiri Etorofu as a precondition, while the Soviet Union rejects any unsettled dispute. Interims aim to regulate Japanese fishing in the Soviet zone with annual catches totaling about 1.8 million tons for Japan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Moscow
Soviet Union
Dmitri Polyanski
Habomai
Shikotan
Kunashiri
Etorofu
Kurile Islands
Four Islands
United States
China
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Thomas
Tucker County
W. Va
R.R
J. N. Smith
Disputed Islands
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