Carter Farewell Reflections on Rights and Responsibility
The article analyzes President Carter's farewell remarks emphasizing the common good, human rights, and national responsibility. It contrasts Carter’s warnings with Eisenhower’s and anticipates tensions of the coming era under Reagan, urging restraint, adherence to law, and focus on nuclear, resource stewardship, and basic rights.
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Carter
Eisenhower
Kenneth Clark
Greece
Pericles
Reagan
Congress
America
Power and the Illinois Senate power play
An editorial condemns Gov. Thomp son for reshaping legislative rules to let Republicans control the Illinois Senate presidency and the redistricting commission. It argues the move disrupts constitutional balance, poisons bipartisan cooperation, and echoes Lord Acton's warning that power corrupts.
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Gov. Thompson
Illinois Senate
Illinois
Illinois House
House
Senate
Thompson
House of Representatives
Commission
Republican Party
GOP
Lord Acton
Haig near confirmation raises Nixon pardon questions
The Haig nomination faces the full Senate after a long Foreign Relations panel hearing. Controversy centers on Haig's alleged role in Nixon’s pardon and whether crucial White House tape logs and Sept. 1973 conversations were properly reviewed, with witnesses offering divergent recollections.
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Anthony Lewis
New York Times
Alexander Haig
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Haig
Nixon
White House
Ford
Gerald Ford
Robert T. Hartmann
Hartmann
al Haig
Archibald Cox
FBI
Senate Committee
Alan Cranston
D-Calif
Cranston
Nixon White House
National Archives
Senate
Five World War II generals shaped postwar policy
The piece argues generals Marshall Eisenhower Bedell Smith Clay and MacArthur used top ranks to influence postwar policy and diplomacy. It notes they stayed composed under attack, combined military skill with diplomacy, and helped sustain Western resolve during Berlin and Japan occupations while Haig’s NATO leadership is contrasted with their track record.
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Drew Middleton
New York Times
Alexander M. Haig Jr
George C. Marshall
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Walter Bedell Smith
Lucius D. Clay
Douglas MacArthur
United States
Harold Macmillan
Britain
Marshall
Council of Foreign Ministers
Moscow
Vyacheslav M. Molotov
Germany
MacArthur
Tokyo
Japan
Berlin
Haig
NATO
Letters Suggest Children Walk to School to Save Tax Dollars
A Southern Illinoisan reader argues for city residents in Illinois to require children in town to walk to school to promote exercise and cut costs. The letter promotes reducing physical education funding and reallocating savings to other programs.
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Southern Illinoisan
Illinois
Prison staff unfairly portrayed by Marion prison article
Reader argues the Southern Illinois editorial misrepresents United States Penitentiary Marion employees. He contends the piece misstates alleged unfair practices, ignores privacy limits, and harms diligent staff while criticizing reporter Henry for lacking eyewitness detail.
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Southern Illinoisa
United States Penitentiary
Marion
Henry
Mr. Henry
WIC program for Illinois praised by reader letter
Reader compliment to reporter Bonnie Marx on a Dec 22 Southern Illinoisan piece about the Women Infants and Children Supplemental Food Program notes WIC is offered in nearly every Southern Illinois county mainly via county health departments and related agencies like Christopher Rural Health Initiative. It quotes a WIC field representative and provides a Marion IL contact number for information.
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Southern Illinoisan
Bonnie Marx
WIC
Illinois
Christopher Rural Health Initiative
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