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Newspaper
The Gazette
Location
Medina, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1972
Page
2
After talks with Canada France Britain West Germany and Japan, President Nixon improves standing with allies. The mini-summits reassure partners that the United States will consult allies as it pursues shifts in East West power before the Moscow and Peking meetings.
The Queen Elizabeth, famed for her majesty as a liner, served as a WWII troop carrier before luxury cruising. She later faced repurposing as a floating university and a fiery end in Hong Kong harbor, remembered for her stately voyage across the seas.
A reader argues the National Council of Churches created the Corporate Information Center to expose church investment disclosures. The writer questions whether donations and endowments must be categorically refused or redirected, noting moral ambiguity in war related holdings and the difficulty of total separation from evil. He suggests humility and self scrutiny as the study’s value.
Washington report notes lawmakers likely to fund higher defense despite Vietnam pullout efforts. Mansfield Amendment debates and potential late spring votes frame a split Congress while defense requests for fiscal 1973 rise by several billions.
Ralph de Toledano critiques Otto Otepka and the press after Washington Monthly reporter Taylor Branch allegedly falsifies the Otepka record. The piece argues Otepka did not leak classified material or lose his job in 1963, and contrasts Ellsberg’s actions with Otepka’s congressional testimony. The author links media bias to defense spending and election year economics.
President Nixon opts to skip television advertising in the New Hampshire contest against Reps. Paul McCloskey and John Ashbrook. He will rely on aides visiting the state to tout his record while a mobilization of young workers is organized by Sen. William Brock to bolster support.
A note invites readers to browse poetry in the library with titles by Bartlett and Stevenson and Bryant's Sourcebook of Poetry listing nearly two thousand quotable poems. It highlights Archibald Rutledge and Goudge with At Home selections, Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn, Harold Monro and Walter de la Mare, and notes themes of solitude, pets, comfort, music and love in Modern Love Poems edited by D J Klemer.
John Ciardi praises Alfred Tennyson and Ruth Rawson’s selections as he notes poems about brook songs flowers and kisses. He also reviews Ciardi’s interest in other poets and the idea that reading prompts sudden insight amid daily tasks.
Ann Matthews notes that Walt Whitman was fired from a Washington job for writing a dirty book. Scholars now hail Leaves of Grass as the greatest single work in American literature.
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