Decent Interval Review by Frank Snepp
A New York review of Frank Snepp’s memoir Decent Interval critiques CIA and White House decisions during Saigon’s fall. It questions authority, military missteps, and moral failures, noting Snepp’s insider perspective from 1972 to 1975 and his postwar stance.
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Saigon
CIA
Vietnam
Frank Snepp
Random House
Asia
Snepp
Central Intelligence Agency
Thomas Polgar
United States
Graham Martin
Washington
Southeast Asia
Henry A. Kissinger
le Duc Tho
North Vietnam
Sneep
South Vietnam
Agency
Columbia University
van Tien Dung
Landon Still Keeps an Eye on Washington in Kansas Visit
In Manhattan Kansas 90 year old Alf Landon recalls 1930s campaigns and current politics. He praises Teddy Roosevelt style politics, criticizes Carter and Social Security taxes, and notes his ongoing interest in national affairs while visiting Kansas State University.
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Alf M. Landon
Kansas State University
United States
Landon
Carter
Congress
Teddy Roosevelt
Washington
Anwar Sadat
Sen
Bob Dole
Topeka
Santa at Haynes and Kane Tomorrow Last Day
Forty years ago in December 1937 Santa Claus is scheduled to depart from Haynes and Kane after a final appearance before Christmas Eve. The era notes a Vermont evergreen surplus powering American tree observances and a playful call to boycott Japan via wearing domestic stockings. Local youths take part in a DuCharme Dance School party with awards for acrobatics and dance, while area growers voice frustration over out-of-staters.
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Santa Claus
Haynes and
Kane
DuCharme Dance School
Karen Miller
Cecelia Greene
Gail Ann Horst
Voting and participation shape democracy in Vermont and beyond
Letters praise citizen involvement as essential to democracy alongside voting. The piece cites Vermont's 1977 environmental laws, notes opposition to antlerless deer seasons, highlights Red Cross and Colonial Dames efforts to connect families with deployed service members, and recalls historical milestones from Plymouth to Apollo 8 and a 1975 Vienna hostage crisis. It closes with a thought on power from poet Richard Trench.
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Vermont
Bennington County
Red Cross
Patriotic Service Committee
National Society of Colonial Dames
Letters to legislators drive environmental bills in Vermont
The Legislative Alert urges timely citizen letters to influence environmental legislation for the 1978 Vermont session. A weekly newsletter from VNRC VPIRG Vermont Tomorrow Lake Champlain Committee and others provides bill progress calendars and legislators' contact details to help constituents shape policy on waste storage bans phosphate pollution road salt and more.
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Robert V. Daniels
Burlington
Daniels
Vermont
Vermont Environmental Groups
Vermont Natural Resources Council
VNRC
Vermont Public Interest Research Group
VPIRG
Vermont Tomorrow
Lake Champlain Committee
Conservation Society of Southern Vermont
Vermont Sierra Clubs
C-O
State St
Montpelier
Bennington Christmas Reflection From the Editor
A poem titled For what he saw To the Editor of The Banner recounts a lamb’s gaze upon the star guiding shepherds to the savior child. The piece notes the child’s gold hair and a familiar bed as the boy kneels in silent awe within a house like his own.
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Book Review
John Leonard
N.Y
Times News Service
New York
Shepp
Boy Scouts
Texas Rangers
National Security Council
Hanoi
Martin
By David S. Broder
Manhattan, Kan
Kansas State
T.R
Kansas
House
Senate
The
Associated Industries
North Pole
America
Japan
Edward
Ted) Quinlan
Fordham University
Raymond Quinlan
Pharmacy College
Fordham
Quinlan
Pawlet
Plymouth
Mass
U.S. Supreme Court
Nevada
Frank Borman
James Lovell
William Anders
Vienna
OPEC
Richard Trench
Scar
Scearer
Ainavviia i Porcelain
Ainavia O
Sca Nava
Manchester
Fienberg
Bennington, VT
Cora
Banner
Bennington
Gladstone
This
WU Co K
Triacetate
S-M-L
Nichols
Main Street
Bennington, Vermont
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