Carter shifts stance with 25 percent defense boost plan
The editorial notes President Carter backs a five year defense increase led by conventional forces amid Soviet buildup and Iran turmoil. It questions SALT II viability and warns against tying treaty approval to higher spending, arguing for measured arms control on its own merits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jimmy Carter
Soviet Union
Carter
Iran
U.S
Pentagon
Harold Brown
Henry M. Jackson
D-Wash
Senate
Reader letters touch animal cruelty and local law tone
Aiken letters condemn a driver who hit a dog and urge help for injured animals, plus critique local officials over welfare and store waste handling. Contributors include Artis Booth and several Wilds, with praise for shopping in Aiken and a call for humane conduct during holidays.
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Missy
Wrights Mill Pond Road
Do We Want A Strong President
Americans debate nominees and question strong leadership. Clare Booth Luce argues democracy’s strength lies in weakness, noting wartime presidents set aside constitutions. The piece cites Eisenhower and Cooke on leadership hopes and Congress’s domestic gridlock, ending by praising our constitutional limits.
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Clare Booth Luce
Luce
Mrs. Luce
Newspaper masthead and staff credits
The fragment lists the publisher Samuel A. Cothran and editor Scott B. Hunter along with advertising director A B Crabedge, indicating core masthead details for the publication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel A. Cothran
Scott B. Hunter
Why disasters happen sources of weather and sin in the world
AWS asks if disasters come from God or the devil. The reply stresses that God created and upholds all, permits events, and provides good, yet creation is affected by human sin. Despite calamities, believers are safe in God's hands through Christ, per Romans 8:20-39 NIV.
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DR. Graham
A.W.S
God
Christ Jesus
Our Lord
Felt fuel fears of president travel due to weakened FBI
Former FBI official Mark Felt argues domestic intelligence has eroded under Levi era rules. Secret Service warns Carter to avoid certain cities amid threats while Felt alleges Weather Underground links and a 1972 Dallas operation. He also hints he was Deep Throat and cites FOIA fears shrinking informants.
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Washington
FBI
U.S
Secret Service
Carter
Mark Felt
Weather Underground
Minist
United States
Felt
Patrick Gray
Edward Miller
FBI Intelligence
Gerald Ford
Stuart Knight
Senate Judiciary Committee
Edward H. Levi
FOIA
J. Edgar Hoover
Nixon White House
Watergate
Robert Woodward
Carl Bernstein
Dallas
Texas
Language shifts over football and lodging terms noted
The columnist observes pronunciation changes in defense and offense tied to football, and in hotel versus motel accents to distinguish categories. Readers send Christmas notes praising the column while critiquing views, and a Denver gossip item quotes Cat's Meow owner Mort Karman noting the escorts will stop dates with Iranians and offer free dates to Marines at the Tehran Embassy.
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Bennie B. Berry
Denver
Colo
Rocky Mountain News
Cat’s Meow Escort Service
Iran
Mort Karman
Cat’s Meow
Karman
U.S
Tehran
Marine Corps
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Aiken
Dorothy B. Siegmund
Brandy Rd
Paul Harvey
Eisenhower
Oval Office
Alistair Cooke
Moses
Congress
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A.B. Cubredge
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Rutland Drive
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James Cary
Knight
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