New Mexico Presses for Local Say on WIPP Nuclear Plant
Deputy Energy Secretary asks Congress to empower the NRC to license the Waste Isolation Pilot Project near Carlsbad. Senator Harrison Schmitt says New Mexicans must approve storage, criticizing DOE for lack of candor and local input. Washington has not assured safety or asked residents about their preference.
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Carlsbad
John O'Leary
Congress
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
New Mexico
James Schlesinger
Leary
Washington
Harrison Schmitt
Rn.m
Congressional Committee
Department of Energy
Sen. Schmitt
Brooke denounces press in privacy dispute during Boston conference
U S Senator Edward Brooke criticizes The Washington Post and The Boston Globe over stories on his finances and family dependents. He accuses the media of a reckless invasion of privacy while defending his public duties and vows to let the facts speak, not engage questions at the briefing.
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Edward W Brooke
Washington
Senate
Washington Post
Boston Globe
Brooke
Post
Globe
Watergate
Massachusetts Republican
The
Caesar
Public forum questions City water master plan handling
Readers react to Grand Jury findings on the City water master plan. They challenge why a previously paid engineering plan not used and why an extra plan was needed. They deny CCGR harassment claims and criticize Mayor and Attorney General opinions on Ordinance 1019.
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Grand Jury
CCGR
Project Screendoor polio program at Walker AFB continues
Twenty five years ago on June 20 1953 Walker AFB retains Project Screendoor to fight polio. A base inspection by the 509th Air Refueling Squadron notes Wherry and base housing residents highly aware of the project. Monthly health and sanitation checks planned through polio season. City inspector Charlie Neal reports mistaken identity handling of a scarlet Ford once owned by Fire Chief George Daniels. Barney E Cross resigns Lake Arthur school head to take Ignacio Colorado post.
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Walker Air Force Base
509Th Air Refueling Squadron
Wherry
Charlie Neal
Katyn Massacre Censorship Exposed by VOA Report
Voice of America aired a censored Katyn Forest Massacre story amid Soviet style edits. Polish poet Andrzej Braun protested at the Writers Congress, with VOA dispatches revealing deletions of Soviet culpability and a 1940 Katyn date.
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Washington
Voice of America
Andrzej Braun
Polish Writers Congress
Kremlin
Poland
United States
Katyn Forest
Soviet Union
Polish Communist Party
Katyn
Warsaw
Ron Pemstein
Braun
Pemstein
Pernstein
Right to Work and Waste Dominate New Mexico Politics
In Santa Fe the coming general election is shaped by right to work and the cost of living with government waste cited as a key factor. The piece critiques state spending, commuting patterns, zero based budgeting, and calls for an interim auditing task force. It notes George Goldstein’s leadership in mental health and shifts in state laboratory work and announces a job opening in unemployment compensation management with a $1,300 to $1,800 monthly salary.
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California
New Mexico
Jimmy Carter
George Goldstein
State Health and Environment Department
Merry Round House
Goldstein
Duke City
Department of Finance and Administration
The
Post
Muggeridge on Equality and Individual Genius
Malcolm Muggeridge argues that progress and equality are misused ideals. He stresses discrimination as a natural, non hostile distinction and champions individual contribution over collective slogans. He cites Pasteur Edison Jefferson Franklin as examples of genius surpassing mass effort.
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Malcolm Muggeridge
Euclid
Pasteur
Edison
Jefferson
Franklin
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Roswell
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Small Society
Jack Anderson
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Adolf Hitler
Africa
Ernie Mills
Santa FE
Henry J. Taylor
Indianapolis
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