Fremont council ends agribusiness license exemption
Fremont councilmen voted to bring agricultural firms into the city business license tax system, aligning agri business with retailers and manufacturers. The move, supported by Mayor Geoffrey Steel and Councilman Hugh Block, aims to share city costs more evenly and curb special agribusiness exemptions.
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Fremont
Fremont Agricutural
Thor
Hugh Block
Don Driggs
Black
Geoffrey Steel
Don Dillon
Steel
Block
Dillon
Massive forced migration reshapes China’s urban to rural move
Countdown Red China reports one of history’s largest compulsory population transfers with millions shifted from cities to countryside. A Wisconsin federal judge rules school boards cannot bar male students from growing long hair or beards, a ruling likely to provoke strong reactions.
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Red
China
Wisconsin
Garrison Under Fire Over Kennedy Probe Blunder
The piece criticizes New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison for prosecutorial overreach in the Clay Shaw case. It argues his pursuit stemmed from a mistaken conspiracy belief about Kennedy’s assassination and describes Russo’s unreliable testimony and hypnosis.
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Jim Garrison
Garrison
New Orleans
Kennedy
Dist
Atty. Garrison
Clay Shaw
Perry Russo
Russo
Adventure In Haiti With An Old Sponger
The narrator, Tim Kane, recalls seeking Yanni Yanni an aging Greek sponge hunter living near Gonaives Haiti. He journeys by jeep and donkey to the coastal area above the Artibonite Valley to meet the renowned sponge trader who travels twice yearly from Port au Prince with loaded donkeys and a new indigenous girl.
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Port Au Prince
Haiti
Tim Kane
Yanni Yanni
Yanni -Yanni
Artibonnete
St. Marc
Gonaives
Tim
Gulf of Gonaives
Bitter Woods review and a tropical interlude
A reader discusses Dwight Eisenhower's son J D Eisenhower and his book The Bitter Woods about the Battle of the Bulge, noting mixed reviews and the book’s detailed maps. The piece then shifts to a travel vignette describing Yanni Yanni’s tropical estate, Haitian telegraph, and a generous, energetic host who extends a stay beyond the planned visit.
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Washington
Jatin
D. Eisenhower
Dwight Eisenhower
David Eisenhower
Julie Nixon
Putnam
Hitler
Eisenhower
Putcham
Yanni Yanni
Ife
Conservation and Negro Employment Rule Convention Talk
At a New York electrical power convention, speakers focused on conservation and Negro employment. The piece notes Nixon era shifts, utility fishery and aquaculture efforts in Long Island Sound, and rising corporate openness to race and social issues alongside energy policy.
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Rocky Mountain States
St. Regis Hotel
Long Island Sound
Arthur Herbert
Long Island Lighting Co
Long Island
Nixon seeks success in Europe and hints on Berlin
The White House asserts President Nixon achieved in Europe what he aimed to do. The remark raises questions about Western Berlin and possible Soviet gains. Senator Edward Kennedy has not decided whether to run in 1972, saying there must be a platform if there is criticism.
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Agricultural Land Bank
White House
Nixon
Europe
West Berlin
Russia
Sok
Edward Kennedy
Notable 20th Century Events That Shaped History
Events include the 1992 Ford Detroit riot over jobs that left four dead among about 3000 protesters during the Depression. Adolf Hitler’s 1936 Rhineland seizure violated Versailles. 1945 U S Army crossed the Rhine at Remagen signaling WWII nearing end. 1965 Alabama Selma protest clash injured forty civil rights marchers.
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Etroit
Adlof Hitler
Rhineland
United States
Rhine
Remagen
Cologne
Selmna
Ala
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