SIU medical school graduates urged to serve rural areas
An editorial urges the eight SIU Carbondale medical graduates and the first class of 40 to consider serving underserved rural Illinois and urban poor areas. It notes taxpayers funded the school and calls for personal duty despite lack of formal obligation, hoping many will pioneer care in East St. Louis and similar communities.
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Southern Illinois
Southern Illinois University- Carbondale School of Medicine
United States
SIU Medical School
Medical School
Illinois
East St. Louis
Betty Ford backing Reagan quietly, possible running mate tie
Betty Ford reportedly indicated support for Ronald Reagan and suggested he approached Ann Armstrong about a vice presidential bid. If true, it could place Mrs. Ford closer to Reagan on women’s rights than to her husband. Ford’s own stance on women’s liberation remains nuanced.
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Ronald Reagan
U.S
Great Britain
Ann Armstrong
Betty Ford
Reagan
Mrs. Ford
Mr. Ford
Letters defend state child and mental health spending
A reader challenges an editorial on state departments of children and family services and mental health. The letter notes increased funding for community mental health facilities, reduced patient discharges to community care, and calls for informed scrutiny rather than creating a super department to cut costs. It urges firsthand exposure to departmental work.
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General Assembly
Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities
Department of Children and Family Services
Editorials and Letters Show Southern Illinois Viewpoints
The Southern Illinoisan outlines opinion formats including editorials, letters to the editor, and staff signed columns. It notes the separation of news and opinion, with objective reporting stated for wire services and staff articles.
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Linoisan
M.E
Southern Illinois
Decline in U S hucksters and peddlers mirrors job shifts
The Wall Street Journal reports a government study showing 179,000 hucksters and peddlers employed last year, down from 230,000 in 1972. Credit managers drop from 71,000 to 57,000, while private housekeepers fall by 25,000. New roles rise with 46,000 bartenders and 42,000 insurance adjusters, and 115,000 more public relations specialists emerge, offering a hint at changing work patterns.
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THE
Wall Street Journal
United States
Clude
Futures conference at U of Illinois foresees storm of crises
Robert W. Sink reports at a U of Illinois Futures Conference that speakers warn of a storm of crises within 2 to 25 years, including possible nuclear war, mega-famines, and economic slowdowns, with varied remedies and a grim yet hopeful note from Heilbroner and Platt.
Nuclear war debate at university symposium predicts varying timelines
At an Illinois symposium top scholars debated nuclear risk from probable to inevitable. Morgenthau warned of inevitability with global government needed, while Heilbroner Platt and Schon offered mixed, cautionary views. The conference also featured women’s rights discussions led by Mead, Mazelis, and Henderson, urging social reform and caution about technology.
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Helilbroner
University of Michigan
John Platt
Hilbroners
Platt
Robert Heilbroner
University of Illinois
Hans Morgenthau
Morgenthau
University of Chicago
City College of New York
New School For Social Research
John Pratt
Donald Schon
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hazel Henderson
Princeton Center For Alternative Futures
Edward E. David Jr
Gould, Inc
Henderson
Adam Smith
Edward David
Margaret Mead
Irma Garcia Mazelis
Ms. Mazelis
United Nations
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Irma Mazelis
Robert Heilbronner
Dorse
Anne Armstrong
Lindsay-Schaub
John C. Gardner
William B. Cox Jr
U of
By Robert W. Sink
Robert W. Sink
Champaign-Urbana Courier
University of Illinois Alumni News
Heilbroner
North America
OPEC
France
Germany
Mead
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