Editorial on violence in mass media and news coverage
The piece debates crime and violence in reporting asking if coverage is excessive while noting studies showing violence comprising 4 to 11 percent of front page content in papers. It contrasts newspaper restraint with estimates of violence in books and television and defends selective local coverage.
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John B. Haskins
Syracuse University
New York
Haskins
Col. Eisenhower
Cornell expert ties abortion access to hunger relief
Dr. Michael Latham testified before a Senate hunger committee that legalizing abortion would reduce malnutrition and infant mortality by preventing unwanted births. He argued poverty is hereditary and more robust birth control access, including abortion laws, would aid the poor.
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Cornell University
Michael Latham
Senate
Nixon taps Rogovin to lead Law Enforcement Office
President Nixon plans to name Charles Rogovin, a crime expert and former National Crime Commission staffer, to head the new Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, challenging FBI Director J Edgar Hoover over policy control. The move signals a shift in influence on crime enforcement and angers some Republican allies.
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Justice Department
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FBI
Hoover
Rogovin
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White House
Richard Kleindienst
Law Enforcement Assistance ‘Administration
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Gordon Allott
Colorado
Allott
Bryce Harlow
Senate Republican Policy Committee
New England
Immigration Service
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John
Tower
Texas
Jim Wells
Humphrey-Muskie
Tina Villanueva
Hillary Sandoval
West Texas
Small Business Administration
SBA
Court upholds school beard ban in grooming policy
California Court of Appeals affirms a school board’s no beards rule as part of a good grooming policy. The decision reasons that maintaining classroom discipline and minimizing disturbances outweighs individual privacy claims. The ruling notes similar precedents and states schools may require shaving for a distraction free learning environment.
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California Court of Appeals
Setafaiah
East German travel curbs as West German delegates seek new president
New York dispatch reports East Germany restricting West Berlin travel for West German delegates seeking to elect a new president. Soviet pressure and border checks slow convoys to West Berlin while Air Force One nears the city for President Nixon’s visit.
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New York
West Berlin
East Germany
Plot to spark student uprisings tied to SDS and Black Panthers
Congressional investigators reveal a detailed plan by Students for a Democratic Society allied with the Black Panthers to mobilize protests and disturbances in universities and high schools nationwide. The document, titled Smash the Military Machine, calls for a Washington mass mobilization in April and outlines five nonnegotiable demands including no ROTC and no draft in high schools.
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Revolutionary Students For A Democratic Society
Black Panther Party
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Vietnam
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Board of Education
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