News & Observer Index, 1926-1992

Sitton, Claude (Column)

Change brings opportunity for education - Ja 6 85 4D
Helms would air his own brand of bias - Ja 13 85 4D
Big-time basketball corrupts a campus - Fe 17 85 4D
Martin budget disappoints state schools - Mr 3 85 4D
Helms expands drive against his critics - Mr 24 85 4D
Democratic disarray marks tax debate - Mr 31 85 4D
Religionists press drive for conformity - Ap 7 85 4D
State schools caught in verbal crossfire (Dept. of Public Instruction; Conservatists) - Ap 21 85 4D
Martin forging a do-little government - Ap 28 85 4D
Keys to writing lie beyond schools' reach - My 19 85 26A
Helms poaches on Tar Heels' birthright - My 26 85 24A
Sports scandals reflect wider problem - Jn 2 85 38A
'Buddy-system ethics' undermines trust - Jn 9 85 18A
Tax debate profiles state's new politics - Jy 7 85 24A
Martin puts politics first, schools second - Au 4 85 30A
Jim Hunt: victim of a political clubbing - Se 15 85 8A
Nash Square welcomes back old citizen (Josephus Daniels statue) - Se 22 85 12A
UNC laterals a hot potato to its chancellors - Oc 13 85 16A
Martin favors study, not action, in education - No 3 85 12A
Nature has shaky grip on state's mountains - No 17 85 12A
Fundamentalists would rule or ruin schools - No 24 85 8A
Drive for public school reform moves ahead - De 15 85 18A

Sitton, Claude (Column)

Death penalty: A search for justification - Ja 15 84 4D
Jury selection adds suspicion in Klan case - Ja 22 84 4D
Teachers offer promising plan for schools - Ja 29 84 4D
1984 demands best that press can offer - Fe 5 84 4D
Storm cleanup brings out Tar Heel best - Ap 1 84 4D
State dedication to school reform in doubt - Ap 22 84 4D
Campaign tells what candidates think of us - Ap 29 84 4D
Helms appeals to Tar Heels' dark side - My 27 84 4D
Political future promises a look at past - Jn 10 84 4D
Reagan boasts a 2-Jesse foreign policy - Jy 1 84 4D
the week ends hope for clean campaign - Jy 8 84 4D
Campaign gives state voters look at selves - Se 16 84 4D
Hunt camp wakes up to Helms strategy - Oc 7 84 4D
Which Hunt will be on Tuesday's ballot? - No 4 84 4D
A look backward at 'Terrible Terry's tax' - No 18 84 4D

Sitton, Claude (Column)

Hard times, hard challenge for Tar Heel (Massengale) - Ja 10 82 4-IV
Spending brings circuses but little bread - Ja 17 82 4-IV
Vote for new runway is a vote for safety - Fe 21 82 4D
Scandals tar campus sport conglomerates - Mr 14 82 4D
Spring recalls fight to save the New River - Ap 18 82 4D
Utilities panel has scheduled a p. r. circus - Ap 25 82 4D
Race issue still demands priority status - My 9 82 4D
Time to question economic growth policies - Jn 6 82 4D
Helms' filibuster gives state a black eye - Jn 20 82 4D
State has its own 'Hinckleys' on the street - Jn 27 82 4D
'Senator No' becomes 'Senator Flip-flop' - Au 8 82 4D
Helms' dual role raises vexing question - Au 22 82 4D
Helms' tactics convert victory into defeat - Se 26 82 4D
Budget crunch finds education in trouble - No 21 82 4D
Money talks and Monte walks at North CarolinaSU - De 5 82 4D
Sens. - No and No-No draw nations' jeers - De 26 82 4D

Sitton, Claude (Column)

Helms' Senate switch means trouble ahead - Ja 25 87 6D
It's a make-or-break session for Bob Jordan - Fe 15 87 6D
State Senate needs a few good Samaritans - Mr 15 87 6D
Symbolism carries the day in King dispute - Mr 22 87 6D
State's highway program takes wrong turn - Ap 5 87 6D
Needed tax hikes gain popularity, but not here - Ap 26 87 6D
What a friend Martin has in the Democrats - Jn 7 87 6D
Would the real North Carolina please rise? - Jn 14 87 6D
Legislative meddling threatens UNC system - Au 16 87 6D
Public school reform remains a local problem - Se 13 87 6D
Fundamentalists are bringing in the sheaves - Oc 18 87 6D
Trends favor day-care role for public schools - No 15 87 6D
Crum's case provides some grubby insights - No 22 87 6D

Sitton, Claude (Column)

Highways show it's time to pay the fiddler - Ja 12 86 10A
Helms' shift shows how Mideast hopes die - Ja 26 86 8A
State should listen well to those who teach - Mr 2 86 2A
Higher education seeks to revalidate its title - Mr 23 86 12A
Campaigns for Senate struck few sparks - My 4 86 18A
Two Tar Heel races pit PACmen against voters - My 11 86 6A
School plan mixes the good, bad and dubious - My 18 86 12A
Tough decisions needed in public education - Jn 1 86 12A
Legislature rushes to judgment on insurance - Jn 15 86 10A
Friday's retirement raises an old question - Jy 6 86 8A
Democrats play fly to the Republican spider (financing highways) - Jy 13 86 10A
Broyhill, Sanford head for war of the labels - Au 10 86 12A
State still has time to save its national forests - Au 24 86 12A
Schools' most difficult problem can be solved - Au 31 86 22A
Senators would keep our loggers in the chips - Se 21 86 14A
Sanford erred by ducking challenger's role - Se 28 86 18A
Tar Heels want a government with answers - Oc 26 86 14A
Television pollutes the democratic process - No 2 86 14A
Election discloses new trends among the old - No 9 86 14A
Law of torts will challenge legislators again - No 23 86 6D
Arrogance undercuts education's support - No 30 86 6D
State's school reform ignores key to progress (reduction in class size) - De 14 86 6D

Sitton, Claude (Column)

Lean times demand political courage - Ja 9 83 4D
State ignores answers to money problem (State of the State address) - Ja 23 83 4D
Is it diamonds of glass for state's future? - Fe 13 83 4D
One who brought hope in time of despair (Wright) - Fe 27 83 4D
Hunt takes risky turn to the political right - Mr 6 83 4D
New Raleigh-Dee, a gateway to the world - Mr 13 83 4D
State's education in sad need of overhaul - Mr 27 83 4D
Lawmakers breach wall on Good Friday - Ap 3 83 4D
Green's vocational plan misses the point - Ap 10 83 4D
Economic factors urge tobacco's rescue - Ap 24 83 4D
Education report calls for difficult choice - My 1 83 4D
Reporting ignores state's classroom ills - My 8 83 4D
Tobacco issue puts Helms in political vise - Jn 5 83 4D
Legislators squeeze public schools again - Jn 12 83 4D
School problems go far beyond teaching - Se 4 83 4D
Northeast Piedmont poisoning the well - Oc 2 83 4D
King debate followed old Dixie pattern - Oc 23 83 4D
State makes start toward school progress - No 6 83 4D
State schools face window of opportunity - No 27 83 4D

Sitton, Claude (Column)

Time for a new scrutiny of U.S.-Israeli ties - Ja 10 88 6D
Education clipped by our sports fanaticism - Ja 17 88 6D
Politics and politicians were not always dull (Talmadge) - Ja 24 88 6D
Press has put Bush and Hart to a fair test - Ja 31 88 6D
Robeson presents a throwback to earlier day - Fe 7 88 6D
Candidates run for cover on Arab-Israeli issue - Fe 21 88 6D
Our freedom of speech can never come free - Fe 28 88 6D
Curtain falls on the Super Tuesday follies - Mr 6 88 6D
Poorhouse waits just over the hill for America - Mr 13 88 6D
School reform errs when focused narrowly - Mr 20 88 6D
Southern parallels seen in Arab-Israeli dispute - Ap 3 88 6D
Some Tar Heel women trapped beyond hope - Ap 10 88 6D
State faces vital choices a week from Tuesday - Ap 24 88 6D
U.S. plays a partner's role in Israeli killing - Ma 1 88 6D
Campaign will test state's desire for progress - Ma 8 88 6D
It's too soon to say this is a new Jim Gardner - Ma 15 88 6D
Legal reform needed but not the Martin kind - Ma 22 88 6D
Public and press shaping journalism's future - Ma 29 88 6D
North Carolina, the state of the working poor - Jn 5 88 6D
Victory by no means in the can for Dukakis - Jn 12 88 6D
Cippollone case reflects abuse of free speech - Jn 19 88 6D
Hope and despair live side by side in Chile - Jy 10 88 6D
Argentines weary of waiting for tomorrow - Jy 17 88 6D
Yankee by birth, Southerner by persuasion (Silver) - Jy 31 88 6D
Press dirties itself by playing the rumor game (Dukakis & psychiatric treatment) - Au 7 88 6D
State's officials split on insurance regulation - Au 14 88 6D
Even Bush must wonder 'Why Dan Quayle?' - Au 21 88 6D
1988 promises one of dirtiest campaigns yet - Au 28 88 6D
School reform results present mixed picture - Se 4 88 6D
Candidates' positions ignore Mideast history - Se 11 88 6D
Voters get another dose of voodoo economics - Se 25 88 6D
Chileans get a crack at an old Helms friend (Pinochet) - Oc 2 88 6D
Bush failed at a president's first responsiblity - Oc 9 88 6D
'New pioneers' figure in swing to the right (political commercials) - Oc 16 88 6D
Bonas left a hound dog's hell in the Balsams - Oc 23 88 6D
Character issue makes presidential pick tough - Oc 30 88 6D
Sing no sad song for American liberalism - No 13 88 6D
Bush must break stalemate over Palestinians - No 20 88 6D
Are Democrats among the quick or the dead? - No 27 88 6D
Klinghoffer case shapes opinion on Mideast - De 4 88 6D
Schools need to reach out and touch families - De 11 88 8D
Reagan raises star of hope over Bethlehem - De 18 88 6D

Sitton, Claude (Column)

U.S. has yet to learn the lessons of Vietnam - Ja 8 89 6D
Democratic disarray dashes progressive hopes - Ja 15 89 6D
'Mississippi Burning' recalls a sorry past - Ja 22 89 6D
It's time to send college sports to the cleaners - Fe 5 89 6D
School reform has been an academic failure - Fe 12 89 6D
Some fans want coverage that skips the warts - Fe 19 89 6D
GOP now knows South doesn't come cheap - Fe 26 89 6D
Blind American loyalty serves Israel poorly - Mr 5 89 6D
NCSU has ag college team can be proud of - Mr 12 89 6D
Pressure rising for basic health care changes - Mr 19 89 6D
Gun lobby's finger a bit shaky on the trigger - Mr 26 89 6D
High court turns its back on battered wives - Ap 9 89 6D
Pro-choice must mean the right to do wrong - Ap 23 89 6D
CNN wants a place in the school curriculum - Ap 30 89 6D
Bush leadership lacking in a changing Europe - My 7 89 6D
'Nyets' from NATO irritate West Germans - My 14 89 6D
Old friend (Brandt) seeks U.S. patience, understanding - My 15 89 8A
The two Berlins - cities of myth and reality - My 16 89 8A
Leaderless Democrats spinning the compass - My 28 89 6D
Helms dusts off his old campaign standby - Jn 4 89 6D
TV strikes a blow for freedom, or so they say - Jn 11 89 6D
Press sometimes uses a racial double standard - Jn 18 89 6D
Where, oh, where have those tax dollars gone? - Jn 25 89 6D
No reason exists to tinker with Constitution - Jy 2 89 6D
Court puts a radical spin on 'conservatism' - Jy 9 89 6D
In scrap for UNC funds, roundball wins again - Jy 16 89 6D
When sport corrupts, it corrupts absolutely - Jy 23 89 6D
It's 1-and-1 in fight to keep singable hymns - Jy 30 89 6D
Silent six clinch state's claim to its tag slogan - Au 6 89 6D

Sitton, Claude (Column)

Events in Mideast boost outlook for peace - Au 13 89 6D
Sports tests the mettle of UNC presidents - Au 20 89 6D
Spangler offers aspirin for sports migraine - Au 27 89 6D
The eagle's death sends a signal to mankind - Se 10 89 6D
State's SAT scores should surprise no one - Se 17 89 6D
Press drifting toward a celebration of trivia - Se 24 89 6D
Bush accelerates U.S. free-fall into fiscal folly - Oc 1 89 6D
On the subject of schools, Bennett has a point - Oc 8 89 6D
Free speech under attack all across the nation - Oc 15 89 6D
Separatism dims King's dream, nation's hope - Oc 29 89 6D
State's schools sailing into uncharted waters - No 5 89 6D
American idea brings walls tumbling down - No 12 89 6D
Thanksgiving in the '30s on a Georgia farm - No 19 89 6D
NCAA TV deal makes cheating a sure thing - No 26 89 6D
Readers' help needed to make a better N&O - De 3 89 6J
Court weighs right to die vs. right to torture - De 10 89 6J
State infant death rate signals larger problems - De 17 89 6J

Sitton, Claude (Column)

Tar Heels are amusing their children to death - Ja 14 90 6J
Promise of two-party South yet to be fulfilled - Ja 21 90 6J
Panama turns out to be a hot tamale for U.S. - Ja 28 90 6J
Talk of bulldozing Civic Center bit premature - Fe 4 90 6J
Debate about German unity tests U.S. beliefs - Fe 11 90 6J
TV, but not Channel One, has role in schools - Fe 18 90 6J
Americans give in to intimidation on Israel - Fe 25 90 6J
Press and public miss point of Valvano story - Mr 11 90 6J
Time to stop the giveaway of public's timber - Mr 18 90 6J
Wolfpackers lost a battle but not yet the war - My 6 90 6J
Easley was right to call for runoff with Gantt - My 13 90 6J
Travel today leaves traveler bent out of shape - My 20 90 6J
State neglects its children and thus its future - Jn 3 90 6J
'New day' yet to arrive in Tar Heel politics - Jn 10 90 6J
Tar Heel officials tell state to eat its seed corn - Jn 24 90 6J
Tax issue catches Democrats napping again - Jy 1 90 6J
Outsider asks if we are still the 'to be' state - Jy 8 90 6J
Partisan brawl no way to pick state's judges - Jy 22 90 6J
Gantt's do-it-my-way campaign set to fail - Jy 29 90 6J
U.S. GIs face history as well as Iraqi troops - Au 12 90 6J
Education's candle sheds dim light in crisis - Au 26 90 6J
Gantt talks common sense to those who listen - Se 9 90 6J
College sports turns education into sideshow - Se 16 90 6J
Finally, a commonsense school reform plan - Se 23 90 6J
Politics turns up the heat under state judges - Se 30 90 6J
If it's to be war, let the U.N. take the point - Oc 7 90 6J
Lack of debate in Senate race cheats voters - Oc 14 90 6J
Personal thoughts on 22 years at The N&O - Oc 28 90 6J

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