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...school committee's request is approved by the Air Force, Quincy will become the third Massachusetts high school to offer ROTC. Gloucester High School and Springfield Technical High are the others...
...since the spring. Now it took on a special urgency. By his presence, the President means to show the flag in the Mediterranean, where Russian naval strength has been growing. The point will not be lost when he appears at sea on the bridge of the guided-missile cruiser Springfield, a flagship of the Sixth Fleet, or when he calls on NATO's southern headquarters in Naples. His visit with General Franco in Madrid will be a much publicized reminder of the renewed agreement on American military bases in Spain, just across the water from the Russian missiles...
Agnew heeded his boss well. Even before his jet was airborne, Agnew began assailing anti-Administration demonstrators. "The primary issue is whether public policy in the U.S. is to be made by elected officials or by people in the streets," he declared at National Airport. At Springfield, ILL., he criticized the "caterwauling critics in the Senate" who oppose the President's Viet Nam policy. They are part of a "misguided movement-an ultraliberalism that translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy, and a pusillanimous pussyfooting on the critical issue...
...also created a new derogatory label: "radical-liberal" (he sometimes shortened it to "radic-lib"). The term seems to include nearly all opposition on the Administration's left, particularly in Congress and on the campuses. The Vice President used the expression with relish at his first stop in Springfield, delighting his Republican audience. As he jetted on to Casper, Wyo., and San Diego, Agnew embroidered on the theme. He hit at "a disruptive radical and militant minority-the pampered prodigies of the radical-liberals in the U.S. Senate...
...drugs in the same period. To slow one aspect of this lethal trade the committee members are studying the possibility of new legislation to control the sale of paraphernalia, including quota systems for the sale of heroin additives. In an attempt to help, the United States Envelope Co. of Springfield, Mass., which manufactures glassine envelopes, last week announced that it will sharply limit production and distribution of its bag-sized envelopes...