Weather politics and the cold winter make or break Nixon
The piece argues that Nixon's political fate depends more on a cold winter and heating oil shortages than Watergate or tapes. It portrays a parody address from a winter White House blaming Congress and the media for a cold nation, and promises aid to the truly cold while denying aid to the able-bodied.
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Art Buchwald
Washington
Nixon
Supreme Court
White House
United States
Antrobus
President Nixon
Key Biscayne
State of the Union
Congress
Florida
Texas
California
Arizona
New Mexico
New England
Minnesota
Senate report blasts antidrug effort as inadequate and corrupt
A confidential Senate subcommittee report criticizes federal drug enforcement as weak and disorganized. It cites inflated arrest tallies, falsified data, and skewed funding, with a shift needed from heroin focus to broader drug abuse and organized crime connections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Anderson
Washington
Nixon
Senate
FBI
Abraham Ribicoff
Justice Department
Capitol Hill
White House
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs
Connecticut
Ribicoff panel finds federal drug effort fails against crime
A Time magazine analysis cites the Ribicoff panel blaming federal drug enforcement for uneven focus on organized crime and for failing to pool intelligence between agencies. It urges joint informant use and closer FBI DEA cooperation while criticizing drug raids on private citizens as overzealous.
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al Capone
Ribicoff
FBI
New
Drug Enforcement Administration
DEA
Charles Percy
R-Ill
Collinsville
John Bartels
Opinion roundup on water research and public issues
A collection of editorials praising Roswell Test Facility support and officers for funding brackish water research while noting highway fatalities in New Mexico and calls for defensive driving. It also mentions potential college cooperation, White House inflation remarks, county fair plans, and Viet Cong fighting with high casualties and a stalled cease-fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Runnels
Pete Domenici
Joseph Montoya
Roswell
Eastern New Mexico University
New Mexico Military Institute
Vietnam
Tunney's diet experiment highlights inflation impact on poor
Sen John V Tunney begins two week diet limiting daily food cost to 1.25 dollars to feel how low income Americans live under rising prices He plans to back legislation to stabilize food costs and hopes the exercise informs policy The piece notes the difficulty of subsisting on eight dollars and seventy five cents per week and the broader need for relief for older Americans facing escalating prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John V. Tunney
Dcalif
Tunney
Mrs Clara Armstrong Watkins Builds New Home in Roswell
In Roswell on Sept 23 1948 Clara Armstrong Watkins received a 30000 building permit for a residence at 512 North Missouri with city inspector I J Brooke issuing the permit. A downtown grocery fight sent a woman to the hospital and one arrest followed. Ideal weather aided valley crop gathering. Mrs E L Lusk surprised her husband with a stage party for his birthday.
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Clara Armstrong Watkins
Missouri
I. J. Brooke
E. L. Lusk
New Mexico Military Institute
Col. Lusk
Mansfield Tweedy
Jess Corn
Tommy Bookshier
Roswell Coyotes
Jerry Heine
Today in History September 23 Highlights
On this date 63 B.C. Augustus Caesar the first Roman emperor was born. In 1730 Maj. John Andre was captured at Tarrytown with papers on Benedict Arnold's West Point surrender. In 1806 the Lewis and Clark expedition was completed.
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Associated Press
B.C
Augustus Caesar
John Andre
Tarrytown
N.Y
Benedict Arnold
West Point
Lewis and Clark
Mississippi River
Skeen Eyes Governance Focus in Governor Bid Announcement
Former Sen. Joe Skeen plans a performance oriented bid for New Mexico governor announcing in Albuquerque. He highlights leadership, legislative partnership, and board policy roles while stressing reduced ceremonial duties and emphasis on women in state government.
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Fred Buckles
Santa FE
Joe Skeen
Skeen
Lincoln County
Albuquerque
Joe
Brumlow
Grant Brumlow
Las Cruces
Jack Dillon
Bobby Lee
Les Chavez
George Koran
Hester Eastham
Julian Garcia
Stephen Durkovich
Milas Hurley
Bramlow
Eastham
Bernalillo County
Mary Helen
Mike
Elisa
State Election Bureau
GOP
Republican Party
Sen. Apodaca
University of New Mexico Football Lobos
Jerry
UNM
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Act Tze1d
Merry
Bureau of Narcotics
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Small Society
Brickman
Briekman
Mane
V. V. Pack
Safeway
State Capitol
James L. Hughes
Walter Bruce
Hughs
Air Force
Apodaca
Jerry Apodaca
Sen
Senate Judiciary Committee
Senate Education Committee
Bobby Mayfield
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