Aiken County 1976 elections offer chance for fresh start
Voters face a moment of truth as the Aiken Standard urges citizen scrutiny of issues and candidates. Key race is for Aiken County Board of Commissioners with terms expiring for three and four members, potential for new single member districts, urging registration, leadership engagement, and evaluating platforms over party labels. Joe Parham, editor. Macon News.
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Aiken County
Aiken
Messrs
Kirby
Davis
Ray
Edmunds
Age That Hath No Heroes
An op ed condemns attacks on dead national heroes who cannot defend themselves. It argues heroes are defined by public service, not private morality, and warns such literary trash erodes America by failing to offer replacements.
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America
Alex H. Washburn
Our Daily Bread
Hope
Bribery in Proverbs Refuted as sin and folly
A reader asks about Proverbs 17 8 and bribery The reply clarifies that the verse condemns bribery not endorses it citing Proverbs 17 23 Amos 5 12 and Galatians 6 7 The Christian call is to avoid involvement in evil and to pursue justice and integrity.
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DR. Graham
F. W
Amos
Hero Worshippers Have It Rough in the 1976 Campaign
Holmes Alexander laments that 1976 offers a lackluster field of Democratic and Republican candidates. He singles out Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford as the front runners while noting Reagan’s struggles and Udall’s limited appeal. He argues Congress in 1974–75 has failed to deliver decisive action, deepening voter disillusion.
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Georgia
Jimmy Carter
Jefferson
Simon
Carter
New Hampshire
Allende
Chile
Washington
Gerald Ford
Ronald Reagan
Muhammad Ali
Reagan
Ford
Mo Udall
Arizona
Birch Bayh
Fred Harris
Sargent Shriver
Democratic Party
Udall
Roosevelt
Truman
Stevenson
Eisenhower
Goldwater
Richard
Nixon
Congress
Democratic
CIA Traps Falcons For Sheikhs In Alaska Gifts
Washington CIA agents trap rare peregrine and gyrfalcons in Alaska and arrange their export to Middle East rulers as prestige gifts. A Chicago businessman, Anthony G. Angelos, tried to smuggle peregrines for Sheikh Zayed of Abu Dhabi but was caught. Angelos pleaded guilty to migratory bird treaty violations amid embassy denials of any intervention.
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Jack Anderson
Washington
Central Intelligence Agency
Alaska
CIA
Sheikhdoms
Middle East
U.S
Chicago
Anthony G. Angelos
Sheikh Zayid
Abu Dhabi
Angelos
United States
United Arab Emirates
Pakistan
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Larry Hood
State Dept
Nixon
Watergate
Chief Justice Drayton and Early South Carolina Leadership
Dorothy MacDowell recalls William Henry Drayton, the first to order firing on the British at Ft Johnson, and his rise from royal councillor to Chief Justice. The piece notes his Continental Congress service, early death at 37, and his family's prominent connections including Dorothy Golightly and children Mary, John, and a son who never married.
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Dorothy Macdowell
William Henry Drayton
South Carolina
Col
William Moultrie
Ft Johnson
Congress
Drayton
Continental Congress
Philadelphia
Carolina
Dorothy Golightly
Mary
John
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