Absurd Washington Uproar Amid Global Chaos
A cluttered New York to Washington dispatch notes a six alarm Brooklyn fire, congressional graft accusations tied to Korean agents, a Celtics defeat, capital punishment debate, stock market lull, and a Canarsie holdup. Theme shifts to Defense Secretary Vance, Legionnaires disease, OPEC rifts, a Peruvian train crash, and Cairo riots as global tensions mingle with domestic politics.
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Washington
Brooklyn
Boston Celtics
Stock Exchange
Canarsie
Carey
Buffalo
Yuma
Ariz
Defense
Cyrus Vance
Pentagon
Peking
Muhammad Ali
Senate
Byrd
OPEC
Zanzibar and Capitol Hill Global Dispatch
An outlandish miscellaneous news digest references Zanzibar political questions and energy concerns. It notes Bert Lance in a letter mishap, Elizabeth Taylor before Congress, oil import anxieties, Carter comments, Moynihan allegations, and energy shortage talks tied to Rhodesia and missile silo agendas.
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Bert Lance
Elizabeth Taylor
House
Ways and Means
Beame
Ehrlichman
Hubert Humphrey
Agriculture Department
Carter
Capitol Hill
Moynihan
Felix Rohatyn
Rhodesia
Zanzibar
Carter Competence and Critique of His Early Presidency
The writer argues Carter is competent but not yet tested by crisis. He admires calm White House entry and rejects ideologue rhetoric, while noting unresolved economic and foreign policy challenges. The piece cautions about Russia, Rhodesia, and domestic overreach, calling Carter’s measures “genial mistakes” and urging patience.
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Carter
Richard Reeves
Jimmy Carter
White House
Rhodesia
Salisbury
Nairobi
Amin
Andrew Young
Africa
Roosevelt
Britain
Humphrey-Hawkins
Congress
Humphrey
Hubert
Ford ex president fund mailer taints White House image
The piece notes ex presidents dominate the field with Ford and Nixon in California, mocks the White House campaign fund mailer as a cheap trick, and questions the ethics of using White House addresses for fundraising while recounting past ex presidents and the GOP push to elect more Republicans to Congress.
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White House
House of Representatives
Senate
California
Herbert Hoover
Calvin Coolidge
Harry Truman
Hoover
Truman
Lyndon Johnson
Nixon
Ford
Jimmy Carter
GOP
Spiro Agnew
Richard Nixon
John Ehrlichman
John Mitchell
E. Howard Hunt
H. R. Haldeman
Charles Colson
Ron Zeigler
John Dean
Gordon Liddy
Gerald Ford
Air Force 1
Congress
Michigan
John Quincy Adams
Washington
The
Washington, D.C
Boxing card postponed as ill main bout fighter pulls out
Patrick Perrott announces tonight's boxing card sponsored by the VFW is postponed. Harry Conley, matched with Lester Ryder in the main bout, is ill, and the substitute slated to replace Conley refuses to travel to Bennington without him.
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Patrick Perrott
VFW
Harry Conley
Lester Ryder
Conley
Bennington
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Torrington Register
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Silk Road
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George H. Phreaner
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Donald Sutton
Hoosick Central School Board of Education
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Sutton
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Howard F. Kelley
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John James
Henry Coley
Norman Lariviere
Virginia Horst
Agnes Jackson
Frances Woodcock
Maj
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University of Alabama
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