Editorial: Grand experiment lacks proper ingredients
The piece criticizes Michigan legislators for overusing mini sessions and paying themselves a 30 percent raise while budgets tighten. It argues the sessions fail to boost leadership or address tax and cost concerns and warns against rushing laws and weakening the committee process. It urges returning to normal session pace to properly handle the budget and reforms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William C. Harris
Pontiac
Samuel Shapiro
General Assembly
Geneal Assembly
Fortas Nomination Faces Petty Objections and Senate Review
Critics label Fortas as unworthy due to cronyism and a lame duck president argument, but supporters cite his qualifications. Fortas says he merely observed high level policy discussions and summarized them for the President, raising questions about influence and separation of powers. Senate confirmation is expected.
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Abe Fortas
U.S. Supreme Court
United States
Earl Warren
Justice Fortas
Senate Judiciary Committee
U.S
Vietnam
Fortas
Lyndon Johnson
Senate
Names and the race debate over Negro Black and Afro
A 1968 discussion by John A. Morsell argues against replacing the term Negro with black or Afro American. He cites Du Bois’s defense of Negro and warns against linguistic purity fueling division. The piece includes a Massachusetts gun law note with Gov. Volpe praising the measure.
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John A. Morsell
New York Times
Ian Smith
Rhodesia
Nasser
Morocco
Nigeria
Ghana
Kenya
United States
de Rigeur
Massachusetts
Boston
John A. Volpe
Cincinnati
Seabed accord time at 17 nation disarmament meeting
The Geneva conference reopened with a proposal to outlaw nuclear weapons on the seabed led by the United States and the Soviet Union. The talks note precedents from the 1960s including space and regional bans and Antarctica’s 1959 designation. No seabed installations have been reported.
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Geneva
United States
Soviet Union
Antartica
Central America
Mexico City
Call for White House role to unify domestic agencies
John W. Gardner, ex-secretary of health education and welfare and head of the Urban Coalition, argues the federal government needs an executive officer to coordinate domestic agencies. He cites overlap, proposes a home-front council, and notes funding, education, and city renewal as key targets amid the Vietnam era.
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Peter Kihss
New York Times
New York
John W. Gardner
Health, Education and Welfare
Urban Coalition
Gardner
Lyndon Johnson
Humphrey
Budge
White House
Office of Economic Opportunity
Home Front
Home Council
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W.E.B. DuBois
DuBois
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