Editorial on government snooping and press privacy
The piece condemns AT&T for sharing reporters calls with government agencies and warns such spying threatens constitutional rights. It argues courts should authorize access through due process and stresses the broader danger to press freedom and democratic openness.
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American Telephone & Telegraph Co
United States
Bread price surge tied to Soviet grain deal
A Bakers Association leader warns a 24 ounce loaf could hit one dollar this spring due to a major grain agreement with the Soviet Union. The detente-linked deal allegedly shifted grain to Arabs and sold U.S. grain abroad at high prices, impacting bread costs for consumers.
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Soviet Union
Israel
United States
Kremlin
U.S
India
Africa
Bugging of Democrats and NBC tied to 1968 campaign
Reader recalls NBC involvement in a 1968 Democratic Platform Committee meeting bugging in Chicago and the later indictment of Enid Roth for intercepting oral communications. The piece notes similar 1968 and 1960s surveillance episodes, including Nixon remarks tape leaks and Reston’s press freedom appeals.
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Washington
National Broadcasting Company
New York Times
Times
NBC
Democratic Platform Committee
Chicago
Hale Boggs
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NBC News
Enid Roth
New York City
Roth
Miami
Florida
Richard M. Nixon
Miami Herald
St. ‘Petersburg Times
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Food Production Inefficiency Critique Sparks Letter to Progress
A reader questions Harriet Van Horne's January Progress piece on food production. He argues more government controls harm the economy, cites SEC paperwork delays and meat shortages, and urges practical, profitable reforms over scare tactics. He signs ROBERT W. ALSTRIN Paradise Valley.
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SEC
Harriet
van Horne
Robert W. Alstrin
Paradise Valley
KGB influence and the Oswald dossier tale in Barron book
The piece outlines a Moscow dispatch to fetch Oswald's KGB file after his arrest, says the file shows no link, and discusses Barron's Readers Digest Press book KGB The Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents. It cites Yuri Nosenko, detente, and Western cooperation with Barron's portrayal of KGB expansion and power.
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Robert Novak
Washington
Lee Harvey Oswald
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John Barron
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Institute For the Study
Soviet Chamber of Commerce
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Barron
Soviet Union
Pitovranov
Chamber of Commerce
Bonn
Nikita Khrushchev
West Germany
Khrushchev
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