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...recently released documents show that underneath its public statements, the administration was really criticizing public broadcasters for their anti-Nixon viewpoints. A memo to H.R. Haldeman from Clay T. Whitehead, then head of the Office of Telecommunications Policy, reveals a plan to quietly purge public television's anti-administration spokesmen. John Erlichman advised that the "best alternative would be to take over the management of public television and thereby determine what management decisions were to be made...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: A Little Too Scalpel Happy | 3/9/1979 | See Source »

More than 1200 Dartmouth College students gathered yesterday to hear spokesmen air grievances about the status of minorities at the college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Minorities Outline Sexism and Racism Charges | 3/9/1979 | See Source »

...Spokesmen for Hispanic and Native American students criticized the lack of minority representation among students and faculty. The college's unofficial Indian symbol particularly offends Native American students, Lennie Pickard, spokesman for the college's 40 Native American students, said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Minorities Outline Sexism and Racism Charges | 3/9/1979 | See Source »

...balanced-budget amendment is wise in the first place, and whether an Article V convention is a safe way to propose one. On both questions, the lines form predictably between liberals and conservatives. Convention supporters argue for a budget amendment with familiar Proposition 13 attacks on big government. Spokesmen for the National Taxpayers Union, which has pushed the convention proposal since 1975, admit that they are trying to "straightjacket" the federal government, but contend that a budget amendment could leave reasonable loopholes for national emergencies and wars...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Invasion of the Budget Snatchers | 3/3/1979 | See Source »

...this year's election, the county soundly rejected Kelly, returned two anti-desegregation spokesmen to positions of power and over-whelmingly approved a Proposition 13-style tax measure, prompting the Post to comment, "The voters seemed to be seeking a return to the days when life in Prince George's was simpler...

Author: By Lisa A. Newman, | Title: A Maryland County Goes on Trial | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

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