Editorial: Invasion of Czechoslovakia a world calamity
The piece denounces the invasion by the Soviet Union East Germany and Poland as a world calamity echoing 1956 and 1938 actions. It argues it destroys hopes for rapproachement and self determination for Czechoslovakia and harms US Western Europe plans to curb nuclear arms and ease East West tensions.
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Czechoslovakia
Lov
Russia
East Germany
Poland
United States
Europe
Soviet Union
Hitler
Sudetenland
Alexander Dubcek
Romania
Czechs
United
Warsaw Pact
Dubcek
France
Italy
Yugoslavia
Democratic Party
Southeast Asia
North Vietnam
Vietnam
United Nations
Security Council
General Assembly
Shapiro vetoes pay hikes as belt tightening urged
Gov. Samuel H. Shapiro vetoed bills raising salaries for associate circuit judges and legislators, citing the need for belt tightening amid revenue deficits. He notes the move could affect the legislature’s credibility and warns against rushed increases, suggesting postponement to the next session.
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Samuel H. Shapiro
General Assembly
Gov. Shapiro
Downstate
Cook County
Sen
Everett Laughlin
Senate Judiciary Committee
Alan Dixon
Judicial Advisory Council
Senate
Shapiro
The Wind column recalls sassafras memories and October theater plans
David Felts writes of The Wind, sassafras as a spring tonic, and nostalgia for farm boyhood. He notes David Merrick's October plan for a play titled The Wind in the Sassafras Trees while recalling poems, overalls, and Emerson quotes, with domestic anecdotes from Oshkosh and Johnston City.
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David Merrick
Mr. Wind
Kenneth Grahame
Kipling
Longfellow
Normandy
Oshkosh
Penn Bearden
Johnston City
Kerner on Illinois three states and steady progress
Former Gov. Kerner says Illinois operates as three regions Chicago area, midstate farms, and Southern Illinois Egypt with shared fate. He cites Democratic Chicago versus Republican rest of state, redistricting limits, and efforts to rural revival, mental health reform, and modernized government. He predicts 1970 census revival and highlights Industry growth, education, and tourism gains.
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M. W. Newman
Chicago Daily News
Illinois
Otto Kerner
Sam Shapiro
Richard Ogilvie
Kerner
Ilinis
Linois
Gaul
Chicago
Midstate
Southern
Egypt
Cook County
Suburbia
DuQuoin
Harrisburg
Marion
State Board of Economic Development
Downstate
Francis Gerty
Hale Boggs Leads Democratic Platform Committee in 1968
Longtime Louisiana congressman Hale Boggs, chairing the Democratic platform committee, is portrayed as a reconciler and internationalist who backed JFK and Johnson while resisting civil rights legislation until 1965. The piece notes his early political rise, wartime service, and complex stance on race and policy.
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New York Times
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Johnson
Sam Rayburn
Texas
Kennedy
Thomas Hale Boggs
Louisiana
House
Beggs
Rayburn
Richard Nixon
Democratic Platform Committee
JFK
House Whin
Congress
Vietnam
Boggs
Tulane University
People’s League
Long
New Orleans
Veteran comments on age, politics, and GOP convention
A reader, age 90, weighs in on Lawrence Radcliffe and Dave Felts editorial themes. He supports younger leadership for the presidency and governor, praises some GOP voices but criticizes glamour. He recalls Nixon’s piano and FDR song and urges constructive discourse from both parties. The letter hints at upcoming Democratic and Republican conventions.
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Southern Ilinoisan
Southern Illinoisan
Lawrence Radcliffe
Dave Felts
Radcliffe
Felts
Nixon
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