Route 4A Death Trap Prompts DOT Critique
Opinion urges action on the Salmon Falls bridge intersection at Route 4A Buxton citing two fatal crashes and many near misses. The writer calls for improved visibility and interim warning signs while noting a DOT hearing on modernization and a contrast with high citizen marks for DOT funding.
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Merrill
Thornton Academy
Salmon Falls Bridge
Rte. 4A
Buxton
Saco River
Olga L. Taylor
Alfred
Max Brandt
Portland
Department of Transportation
Maine
Route 4A
National protest over forced busing marks split over policy
The piece outlines a September 4 day of protest against school busing with marchers targeting courthouses in Louisville Boston Detroit Dallas Charleston W V and a September 7 National Unity Day. Figures Louie Nunn Monroe Swan and Michael Novak oppose busing and warn of social upheaval while noting racial attitudes and calls for civil disobedience.
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Louisville
Boston
Detroit
Dallas
Charleston
W. Va
Kentucky
Louie Nunn
Clay Smothers
Texas
Monroe Swan
Wisconsin State Senate
Milwaukee
Swan
Michael Novak
Vietnam
Maine Officials Urge Ford On Job Impact Of NATO Gun
Maine state representatives issue a letter to President Ford ahead of his August visit warning that canceling the M-60 contract with Maremont in Saco in favor of a Belgian MAG-38 could cost 1,200 American jobs amid NATO trade ties. They report a petition with over 6,000 signatures showing broad support and request time to present it while noting The Journal’s letters policy.
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Ford
Maine
Maremont Corporation
Saco
Department of Defense
Maremont
NATO
General Dynamics Corporation
General Dynamics
Belgium
Democracy After Tyranny in Greece Faces Trials and Open Justice
In Athens one year after the junta’s fall democracy is tested by street protests and courtrooms. Open trials seek to condemn the conspiracy and crimes of the regime while journalists report and observers note changes, including four trials and public access to justice.
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Herbert Mitgang
Athens
Athena
Mediterranean
Zonar’s
Constitution Square
Rinkydink
Pluto
Junta
Caramanlis
Portugal
Pericles
Military
Aegean
George Papadopoulos
Piraeus
Agnew
Grand Bretagne
Cyprus
Turkey
United States
Henry Kissinger
New York
Democrats A rusty group of minds and myths
A column by Russell Baker questions the modern Democratic party's identity led by Senator Edward M. Kennedy. It argues Democrats seek victory over principle, mocks a party drift into a nonparty junkyard of ideas, and suggests Kennedy remains noncandidate to preserve unity. It includes quotes from various public figures and reflects a satirical critique of party cohesion and leadership.
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Russell Baker
Sen
Edward M. Kennedy
Democratic Party
Daley
Kennedy
Achilles
Adams
Republic
Ford
China’s Post Mao Struggle Shapes Sino Soviet Frontier
The piece notes a European summit pledge limiting territorial changes by peaceful means and highlights shifting Chinese leadership dynamics. It describes internal turmoil in China with Hangchow clashes, Teng Hsiao‑Ping rising, Wang Hung‑wen losing face, and a purge of Lin Piao loyalists, suggesting army influence in the post Mao succession and a nationalist stance toward the Soviet frontier.
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C.L. Sulzberger
Stockholm
United States
Peking
Moscow
China
Russia
Kremlin
Mao Tse-Tung
Chou En-Lai
Lin Piao
Mao
Chou
Hangchow
Wang Hung-Wen
Teng Hsiao-Ping
Nanking
Peoples Liberation Army
Teng
Shanghai
Young Wang
Great Hall of the People
High Command
Prsonies
Teng. Wang
Madame Mao
Chiang Ching
Lin
U.S.S.R
Wang
Helsinki
New York Times
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B.F.C. Whitehouse
W. Paul Casavant
Charles C. Sutton
Gladys M. Whitehouse
Henry S. Haskins
Redd Foxx
Ann Landers
Herold
Neiman Marcus Welby
Shelby Friedman
Mark Twain
George Jean Nathan
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