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Monday, October 6 NET JOURNAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). "Speak Out on Drugs" brings together eight 15-to-20-year-olds who talk about their experiences with marijuana, LSD and "speed" (amphetamine). Questions phoned in by viewers will be answered and discussed by an M.D., a lawyer and a psychologist...
President Nixon's eight-month period of relative immunity from criticism on the Viet Nam war was over. The opponents of the war came out spoiling for a fight. A freshman Republican Senator, New York's conservative-turned-liberal, Charles Goodell, even had the temerity to introduce legislation asking the Congress to take the unheard-of step of cutting off all funds for U.S. participation in the war as of December 1, 1970. Of course, there is virtually no chance for his measure to become...
...billion budget. The number of people on relief has doubled, to roughly 1,000,000, and although city officials contend that the rate of increase is now slowing appreciably, this is scant consolation to the wage earner of moderate means who knows that one out of eight New Yorkers is getting welfare help. "Work is the answer to an awful lot of the problems we have here," says Procaccino typically, "just plain hard work...
...Pollock, general president of the Textile Workers Union of America, said that Haynsworth was part of a "conspiracy." The aim, said Pollock, was to limit the rights of workers. Samuel Tucker of the N.A.A.C.P. blasted Haynsworth's "persistent hostility" to the Constitution's promise of racial equality. Eight of the House of Representatives' nine Negro members endorsed a statement opposing confirmation. They said it would "unequivocally tell black people that the one significant route for peaceful resolution of society's racial injustices ... is gradually being phased...
Harvey Brooks, dean of Engineering and Applied Physics and chairman of the committee, announced the names of the eight committee members at Tuesday's Faculty meeting...