If U S backed Ho Chi Minh in 1945 reshapes Indochina
Speculates on a counterfactual where the United States supports Ho Chi Minh after WWII. Notes OSS contacts and French return, compares Yugoslavia’s Tito example, and argues backing could have produced a Communist but independent Indochina with less civil conflict. Raises whether that outcome would be a lesser evil than the actual war.
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OSS
Office of Strategic Services
CIA
Indochina
Ho Chi Minh
Washington
United States
Southeast Asia
State Department
France
Europe
Yugoslavia
Tito
Moscow
Marshal Tito
China
Marshal Tio
Peking
Letters to the Banner oppose satellite programs
A reader responds to Mrs. Rice arguing the two satellite programs cost about 85 000 annually while total program costs approach 500 000. The writer claims dropouts remain high, taxes rise, and programs encourage unfinished schooling, urging a return to structured education without the crutch of offsite courses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William H. Rice
North Bennington
Banner
Mauhs
Recalling Bennington Programs from the Core Facility
A Tennessee district official outlines reasons to end the Bennington alternative education program. He cites funding limits, higher costs, and the need to meet full core educational requirements while preventing bankruptcy. He argues the program was innovative but not permanent and calls for staff recall to the main facility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Capital punishment as government tax policy
A Hartford Courant perspective argues that capital punishment equates to government taxation aimed at funding state business ventures by taxing profits and covering losses. The piece frames taxation and public spending as competitive pressures on private enterprise.
Quagmire Tales of Mud Season in Friendship Maine
A first person reminiscence on Maine mud season quagmires from unpaved roads to gentle rescues. The narrator recalls blocks of winter autos, a famous Slough of Despond quagmire, and a humorous encounter with Win Smith over salvage law as a busload of sailors became his prize.
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Maine
Despond
Manners
F.D.R
Win Smith
Win
U.S. Navy
Bath
Baltimore
Law of the Sea
Bennington News Roundup Highlights Appointments and Incidents
Today Governor Charles M. Smith appoints Frank E. Howe to a 21 member safety council aimed at reducing automobile accidents. Bennington theatres owner John B. Harte returns from Florida tan and in good health. Graded School Board notes 80 first graders expected next fall. Two truck drivers, Cassius L. Davis and Glen W. Erwin, escape injury after a collision at the Brick Church intersection with live wires threatening cargo. Ayrshire herd from Fairdale Farms Inc. earns top producer recognition. Shaftsbury fire crews respond to a fire at William E. Dailey Inc. plant. Vermont House passes bill to let grocers sell beer and wine on Sundays. Historic snapshots note Whitman’s death in 1892, Salk polio vaccine, 1965 Klan probe, and Coward’s 1973 death.
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Frank E. Howe
Bennington
Charles M. Smith
John B. Harte
Florida
Cassius L. Davis
Benjamin Weeks
Castleton
Glen W. Erwin
North Bennington
Ayrshire
Fairdale Farms Inc
Ayrshire Breeders’ Association
Power jockeying at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave shows Ford era rivals
A closer look at who pulls the strings in the Ford White House reveals Rumsfeld's grip on levers of power, Cheney's ascent, Hartmann's falling influence, and a broader cabinet-wide push for autonomy. Kissinger, Colby, and Simon figure in a shifting balance as Ford weighs re election.
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White House
Donald Rumsfeld
Oval Office
Rumsfeld
Los Angeles
Nixon
Ford
Hartmann
al Haig
Treasury
William Simon
Simon
Henry Kissinger
Secretary of State
Federal Reserve
Arthur Burns
William Seidman
Alan Greenspan
Council of Economic Advisers
Labor
John Dunlap
CIA
Lawrence Silberman
Caesar
William Colby
Rockefeller
Little League
Eisenhower
Pennsylvania Ave
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Joseph C. Harsch
Boston
Vietnam
South Vietnam
Central Highlands
ARVN
Army of the Republic
Saigon
Christian Science Publishing Society
the ‘Crutch’ of Alternative Education
Hartford Courant
Mnon Illegitimenti
John Gould
Graded School Board
Shaftsbury
William E. Dailey Inc
Vermont House
Senate
Vermont
Walt Whitman
Camden
N.J
North Bennington High School
Mr. Noyes
New York
Jonas Salk
Lyndon Johnson
Ku Klux Klan
Alabama
Sir Noel Coward
Jamaica
Phillip Areeda
Harvard
Areeda
Gov. Rockefeller
James Cannon
Sherman Adams
Marvin Watson
H.R. Haldeman
Dick Cheney
Robert Hartmann
DuPont
Charmer
Elc
Te Reissez
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