Saigon Seen as Center of Drug Traffic and Immorality
A historical column labels Saigon as the Pearl of the Orient and accuses it of drug trafficking and prostitution linked to American troops. It contrasts wartime costs, moral decay, and warnings from ancient civilizations, urging readers to heed moral decay as a fate of nations.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Judah
Israel
America
Rome
Greece
Egypt
Spain
France
England
Charley Waller the last great pitchman fades away
A long portrait of Charley Waller, a veteran pitchman born in the 1890s, who hawked games, gadgets, and dreams from three-sucker traps to candy boxes. The piece recalls his era, methods, and decline as modern advertising and waning tricks erode his craft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charley Waller
Ben Parker
Plant City
Miami
Fla
Charley
Jack J. Jinson
Charley Wallers
No-Trump
Tampa
Yesteryear
Bartow
Haines City
New Orleans
Haven
Pie
Agonna
Id Harp
McClellan Quietly Blocks Consumer Bill Until Arkansas Primary
Sen. John McClellan orders a subcommittee to delay action on the consumer protection bill until after Arkansas’s June 13 primary run off with challenger Rep. David Pryor. McClellan seeks to avoid alienating consumers while not angering business interests backing his long career.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Anderson
Washington
John McClellan
D-Ark
Arkansas
David Pryor
McClellan
Little Rock
First National
Dillard
Ray Hemp
Les Whitten
Senate Executive Reorganization
Ralph Nader
House
Chet Holifield
Ccalif
Nader
Senate
Madison Hotel
Senate Government Operations Committee
Today In History Highlights From 1972 AP One Date
Events mark key moments across 1940 to 1961 including the Battle of France start the Grant nomination at Philadelphia the banana debut at the Centennial Exposition and the Marshall Plan outline These items reflect notable milestones reported by the Associated Press on June 5 1972.
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Associated Press
France
Mexico City
Philadelphia
Ulysses S. Grant
United States
U.S
George C. Marshall
Harvard University
Europe
U.S. Supreme Court
Communist Party
Justice Department
Energy diplomacy in a world of five power blocs
John Chamberlain argues that amid arms races and costly proxy wars the five major blocs led by the United States, USSR, Western Europe, Japan, and China must race to secure energy supplies. He says nuclear energy offers future growth but faces ecological and waste disposal challenges.
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John Chamberlain
New York
U.S
Soviet
Russia
Japan
Australia
Western
Europe
Ussr
China
Age of energy diplomacy and nuclear power projections
The piece argues the U S will import 60 percent of oil by 1985 with a $15 to $20 billion annual payments gap, forcing energy diplomacy and naval expansion. It cites Vincent Abajian and centrifuge tech, predicting 25 percent nuclear power by 1980 and 50 percent by 2000, and outlines pipelines, offshore drilling, and maintaining sea power as priorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
George McGovern
Vincent Abajian
Electro-Nucleonics
Atomic Energy Commission
Signal Oil
Union Carbide
Gemot Zippe
Herr Zippe
trans-Alaska
North Slope
A Viewpoint on McGovern Jobs Plan and Congress
Marianne Means analyzes Senator George McGovern’s proposal for a universal minimum income and broader societal reform. She notes his pledge of a decisive mandate if elected, but points out Congress will scrutinize costs and budget constraints, likely resisting deep defense cuts to fund the program.
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Marianne
Los Angeles
George McGovern
McGovern
Wall Street Journal
Congress
McGovern Program Faces Harsh Congress Budget Barriers
The piece argues Congress unlikely to accept a large McGovern plan given a $28.8 billion deficit projection and mood to cut new expenditures. It highlights interlocking program elements, potential inequities, and the political difficulty of passing reform in taxes, Social Security, and health. It quotes critics wary of a four year standstill.
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Congress
McGovern
Nixon
House-Senate
House Appropriations Committee
George Mahon
Ways and Means
Wilbur Mills
Mahon
Mills
Senate
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Lee E. Kelly
Okinawa
Orient
Italy
Carthage
Persia
Benito Mussolini
Meditteranean Sea
Albania
Ethiopia
Adolph Hitler
Sen. McClellan
ITT International Telephone and Telegraph
Chile
ITT
Seas Private Investment Corporation
OPIC
Salvador Allende
Chile Telephone Company
Allende
Hanoi
Moscow
Kremlin
Vietnam
Leonid Brezhnev
Brezhnev
Nikita Khrushchev
Signs OF the Times
Senate Armed Services Committees
Capitol Hill
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