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A good case for future statehood for Puerto Rico was made in a letter by Rep. Paul Simon. D-Ill. to his constituents. Puerto Rico is a commonwealth and that status means “second class citizenship” just as it formerly did for Hawaii andAlaska. said Simon. “The day will come,” he asserted. “when Puerto Rico will either… Continue reading Should Puerto Rico Be c1 State?

It seems reasonable to suspect that somewhere, somebody has information that could help police track down the cyanide killer (or killers) responsible for the seven Tylenol capsule deaths in the Chicago area, Evidence indicates the psrpet;-Iafor “salted” s ore s e ves at a number of establishments wpth one or more lgottlies o con aminate… Continue reading We Must Find Poison Killer

Politics may be the name of the game with some congressional issues, but you’d think a subject as crucial as nuclear arms limitation should be handled on a basis of merit and objectivity with political implications held to a minimum, Perhaps both sides have gotten a bit “political” on the issue between President Reagan’s strategic… Continue reading ‘Freeze’ Too Serious for Politics

Several problems contribute to the slump in the American Steel Industry but the No. 1 culprit is “Illegal dumping” of imggrted steel at prices low production costs, made possible by subsidies by some governments. That’s the consensus of House of Representatives Steel Caucus members who addressed the issue during a “special order” on domestic steel… Continue reading Steel Victim of lllegulities

When the northward widening and improvement of Provo’s Second West Street was planned. the prime objective was a traffic artery that would move cars with safety and dispatch. Obviously there wasn’t much immediate concern about sidewalks, understandable because there were rvery few businesses along the street north of 1230 North. Things have changed. Eating houses,… Continue reading Second West Needs Sidewalks

The national election process, so vital in America’s democratic society, has shown signs of deterioration in the past few decades. It needs a shot in the arm maybe some overhauling. Voter turnout has declined in every presidential election since 1960. That year 62.8 percent went to the po s – not exactly impressive even then.… Continue reading Stop Voter Borticibotioun Decline

Because it’s usually the newspapers that lead the fight to preserve freedom of the press, some people tend to consider the First Amendment guarantee a special privilege for the news media. This is not so, of course. Freedom of the press means the right to a free flow of responsible information and opinions to the… Continue reading Freedom of Press Helps AII

When Congress adjourned without acting to lring down staggering federal deficits, it followed a road paved with the good intentiors but quest.ionable actions of many pre. vious Congresses which have i allowed the national debt to more than quadniple in the past 20 years. : The lawmakers temporarily pulled thermelves out of the current fiscal… Continue reading U5, peb; Rumpcmtly Out of Line

Solidarity, the Polish experiment in worker democracy, was “killed” under a new unionism law adopted by Poland’s Parliament-but it obviously has a very live “ghost.” Unrest has been evident in intermittent strikes, riots and demonstrations since the repressive action Oct. 8. Recently 10,000 people crowded a small Nowa I-luta cemetery for the burial of a… Continue reading Solidarity Isn’t Dead Yet

The economic recovery, to this point, has underlined an accepted axiom: Wha: business is good, most people benefit. Employment goes up; the general level of prosperity rises; the government gets more tax dollars and slpends less in jobless an welfare benefits. Yet, despite all that business and free enterprise do to elevate the standard of… Continue reading Youth Need Lesson in Economics