Editorial on Con Son tiger cages and prisoner rights
The piece argues Saigon's disclosure of the Con Son tiger cages harms US leverage and undermines calls for humane prisoner treatment. It warns Hanoi will resist Geneva Conventions and urges Saigon to honor the agreement, noting the bleak future for American prisoners in North Vietnam.
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Con Son Island
Can Son
Sargor
United States
North Vietnam
Con Son
Hanoi
Saigon
Progress readership survey results thanked and explained
The Progress reports a reader survey with a random sample of subscribers and notes higher response in areas like bridge while comics may be affected by ages over 16. Editors seek comments to improve the newspaper and state results appear on page one.
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Bridge
McCormack's Last Hurrah Rocks House Leadership Fight
Washington report details John McCormack's blast at liberal Democrats as contenders circle for the House floor leader post. The piece outlines Boggs and Rostenkowski rumored pacts with Daley influence, aiming to corral southern and urban votes and shape the succession to Carl Albert's soon-to-be-vacant speakership.
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Chicago
Richard Daley
Washington
Boggs
Rostenkowski
Liberal Democratic Study Group
DSG
McCormack
Carl Albert
Oklahoma
Hal Boggs
Louisiana
Dan Rostenkowski
Illinois
John McCormack
Congress
Albert
Bab Boggs
Morris Udall
Arizona
James
O’hara
Michigan
Udall
Wdall-O’hara
Rosten‘kowski
South
Texas
Florida
Daley
Udall, O'Hara
Edward Bolard
Massachusetts
Apathy and action in Scottsdale School Board debate
Scottsdale residents clash with Rev Shaw over apathy and citizen participation at the January meeting. The letter criticizes board spending, funding gaps, and calls for accountability while praising community volunteers and the Scottsdale Jaycees for the Fourth of July success.
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Scottsdale School
Shaw
Notorious Ladies of the Frontier reviewed by Fay Freed
Book review of Harry Sinclair Drago's Notorious Ladies of the Frontier 1969 edition. Highlights Drago’s critique of frontier legends and profiles of figures like Mammy Pleasant and Ah Toy in San Francisco during the 1800s Barbary Coast era.
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Fay Freed
Harry Sinclair Drago
Dodd’ Mead& Company
Empire
Barbary Coast
San Francisco
Mammy
Pleasant
Fromm
Chinatown
Ah” Toy
Notable Frontier Women and Their Legends in American History
A readable survey chronicles famous frontier women from Calamity Jane to Cattle Kate and Ella Watson, tracing myths around figures like Martha Jane Cannary and Baby Doe Tabor. It surveys Iola Montez Madame Moustache Mattie Silks Diamond Lid and others who shaped western lore.
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California
China
American West
Calamity Jane
Cattle Kate
Martha Jane Cannary
Cattle Kate Maxwell
Ella Watson
Ella
Iola Montez
Madame Moustache
Mattie Silks
Diamond Lid
Baby Dee Tabor
Agreement on limited SALT progress eyed for Vienna talks
Washington sources say a principle agreement is possible at the Vienna strategic arms talks this summer as Gerald C. Smith guides a generalized deal. It would cap total strategic delivery systems and ABM activity while omitting MIRV limits and on site inspections. Foster warns unilateral moves could undermine SALT success.
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Washington
Vienna
Russia
U.S
Europe
Nixon
Pentagon
John S. ‘Foster
United States
Beauty pageants in the 1970 era criticized as vacuous
A critical view denounces Miss Anything 1970 contests as tedious and superficial. The writer condemns the obsession with self and body, arguing these pageants distract from urgent national crises and fail to reflect intelligent young women involved in real-world issues.
Boring Women Called Out as Inadequate Spectacle
The writer ridicules the supposed talent and myth of womanhood in contemporary performances. They describe these acts as anachronistic and insulting, labeling them as blooming bores and dismissing the idea that such spectacles reflect real womanhood or charm.
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Arizona
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Odell
NCI
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Burnkrant
Mike Dicerbo
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Bud Tims
Herb Drinkwater
Ray Garder
Jaycees
Fowles
DuMaurier
Strand
Susann
Love Machine
Robbins
Inheritors
Reuben
Fraser
Mary, Queen of Scots
Segal
Roth
Portnoy
Caldwell
Great Lion of God
Davis
Gerald C. Smith
Soviet Union
Smith
U. S
Moscow
Foster
Robert Allen
John
Sation
Aphrodites
Mary McGrath
Charlie
Scottsdale Progress
Jonathan Marshall
Jerry McElfresh
W. B
Doc” Wright
Scottsdale Daily Progress
Scottsdale Publishing Inc
E. Earli
Ariz
Garrier
Newe Apes Associaton
Arizona’ ‘Newspapers
Association For, Greater Public Service
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