Baseball strike jeopardizes kids Saturday games and memories
Analysts debate salary caps and revenue sharing while children face no baseball on TV or at the ballpark. The piece laments that a protracted strike erodes a ritual shared by families, from glove prep to card collecting, chase for autographs, and the magic of the ballpark.
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Yankee
George Steinbrenner
Braves
Ted Turner
Minnesota
San Diego
Major League Players Association
Bank salutes volunteers in Roswell summer program
Bank of the Southwest thanked volunteers from the Retired Senior Volunteer Program for aiding a three week summer school session at Missouri Avenue Elementary. Three RSVP volunteers assisted two teachers, boosting one on one instruction and student learning quality.
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Roswell
Bank of the Southwest
Missouri Avenue
RSVP
Joe Mangum
N. Main St
Simple Cost-Cutting Plan for Health Care Funding
A reader argues for immediate 10 percent salary cuts for House and Senate to fund a universal health care plan. They urge halting grants for insect sex research and ending foreign aid to dictators and monarchies, claiming these steps would fund American needs without higher taxes.
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Washington
House
Senate
Roswell Leaders Push Head Start Reforms Aug 7 1969
Dr Robert T Smith Roswell dentist urged Chaves County to tighten Head Start controls at Thursday meeting. Commissioner Ronald Mayer pledged readjustments for efficiency. Paul W Adams son of Wayne Adams returned from a five week education tour of Mexico Central and South America. Tour funded by Dr Carl Parker ENMU Portales with a graduate course in comparative education. Mrs Pete Minnerly Benmar Oil guest speaker for Artesia Desk and Derrick Club covered dish dinner meeting.
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Robert T. Smith
Roswell
Chaves
Ronald Mayer
Paul W. Adams
Wayne Adams
Mexico
Central
South America
Carl Parker
Eastern New Mexico University-Portales
Luna defends run against incumbent governor in primary
Lt. Gov. Casey Luna defends challenging Gov. Bruce King in the June Democratic primary. The Albuquerque Journal accuses protocol violations, but Luna argues there was no official standard. The piece surveys historical examples of interparty and intra party campaigns, noting shifts in how incumbents and successors sought elected offices.
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Santa FE
Casey Luna
Albuquerque Journal
Bruce King
Luna
GOP
Miles
Ed Mechem
Congress
Dempsey
Joe M. Montoya
Joe A. Montoya
Little Joe
Crazy Joe
Kerry presses Clintons on crime bill critique
Senate member John Kerry challenges the Clinton administration over the 33 billion crime bill. He argues for more aggressive funding and police, warns of political risk for Democrats, and cites memos urging a stronger focus on crime before the Kennedy Library ceremony. The piece details in flight conversations with Hillary and Bill Clinton and notes the bill's compromises and his downpayment warning.
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Washington
John Kerry
D-Mass
Clintons
Hillary Rodham Clinton
United Nations
Bill Clinton
Kennedy Library
Boston
Clinton
Kerry
Congress
Department of Justice
White House
Bush
Los Angeles
David Gergen
FBI Files and Useful Idiots in Public Debate
In a brisk critique, the piece discusses The New York Times reveal of decades of FBI reports on Leonard Bernstein, labeling him a Lenin-era "useful idiot." It argues Hoover’s paranoia is only part of the story, noting legitimate government interest in pro-communist activity and recalling postwar US espionage trends and the 1948 Progressive Citizens of America as a communist front.
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Eric Breindel
Leonard Bernstein
J. Edgar Hoover
New York Times
FBI
Bernstein
New York Post
Breindel
Lenin
Hoover
Justice Department
Progressive Citizens of America
Congressional
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