Nixon secrecy reform deemed only marginal
Editorial argues Nixon executive order on classification offers little real reform. It narrows staff with classification power and sets declassification timelines but risks continuing secrecy to shield political embarrassment. Calls for a tripartite, transparent approach across government with clearer national security definitions.
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Nixon
New York Times
White House
Departments of State
Defense
Treasury
Justice
Army
Navy
Air Force
Central Intelligence Agency
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Atomic Energy Commission
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Agency For International Development
Department of Transportation
Federal Communications Commission
General Services Administration
Federal Power Commission
National Security
United States Information Agency
Executive
Congressional Judicial Commission
Alligator hazards at Jacksonville Open golf course
Professional Tom Shaw faced a rare hazard during the Greater Jacksonville Open last Saturday as a 12 foot alligator lounged on the bank across a pond. The sight prompted jokes about a two stroke penalty for an unplayable lie from the jaws of the gator and the challenge of salvaging par.
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Tom Shaw
Bureaucracy and housing issues in the Soviet Union spark debate
Izvestia presses officials to act on homeowners complaints amid a housing shortage affecting about 100 million private dwellers. The piece notes black market risks and compares Soviet controls to Prohibition era U.S. and modern drug restrictions, suggesting similar pressures elsewhere.
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Soviet Union
Izvestia
Communist Party
United States
Moscow
Kiev
Leningrad
Chicago
New York
Los Angeles
Instrument of Growth Airport Could Reshape Region
An environmental study argues a proposed international airport on the Illinois side of the Mississippi near Waterloo would spur regional growth, relieve Chicago delays, and create thousands of jobs. ERA projects 2,730 indirect jobs 1974–1979 and a regional income boost as activity expands through 1990.
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Robert Goodrich
Lindsay-Schaub
Argia
Airrport
Illinois
Mississippi River
Waterloo
St. Louis
Ors Toads
Federal Aviation Administration
Chicago
Midwest
Economic Research Associates of
Los Angeles
ERA
Anaheim
Calif
Disney
World
Orlando
Fla
Kansas City
Lake of the Ozarks
Missouri
Palmdale International Airport
Columbia
Springfield
Lambert St. Louis International Airport
Lambert
Woodrow D. Marriott
Marriott Motel and Food Chain
St. Louis Inc
Ed Reusing
Downtown
St. Louis Central Business District
Bistate
U. S
Kenneth Gray
Dwest
Melvin Price
East
Gray
Rend Lake
Benton
Crab Orchard
Kinkaid Lakes
Carbondale
Illinois creates single DOT budget for highways and mass transit
Governor Ogilvie proposes a 1.69 billion fiscal 1973 DOT budget unifying highways waterways and urban transit. The plan allocates 1.25 billion for roads, 82.8 million for mass transit, and 205.6 million in local aid from motor fuel taxes, funded by transportation bonds and federal matches.
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U. S. Army Corps of Engineers
Water Resources Council
Washington
Gray
Miami
Fla
St. Louis
East St. Louis
Carbondale
Price
U. S
O. T. Banton
Lindsay-Schaub
Springfield
Ilinois
Department of Transportation
DOT
Richard B. Ogilvie
Illinois
Ogilvie
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James K. Adams
Alfonso J. Cervantes
Signs of the Times
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Illinois Commerce Commission
NEA, the
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