Comedy Turns Tragic in Old Orchard Beach Council Row
Editorial urges open government and job protections after four new Old Orchard Beach councilors fire Town Manager Rita Belair and appoint a top aide, amid patronage concerns and calls for charter reforms and staggered terms. The piece likens events to Watergate and Salem witch trials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Orchard Beach
Gov
Longley
Rita Belair
Peter Kyros
Jerome Plante
Watergate
York County Coast Star Rebutts Journal On FOIL Data Critique
The York County Coast Star responds to the Journal over access to FOIL financial data and coverage of a planned Sanford oil refinery. The reply dismisses the criticism as unhelpful and notes the paper has more important matters to address.
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York County Coast Star
Friends of Intelligent Land-use
FOIL
Sanford
Global energy crisis strains airlines and world unity
Paris reports the Arab oil embargo and sharp price rises threaten modern industry. Airlines face jet fuel costs, risking survival and potential reversal of global travel patterns. Despite cultural unity in surface trends, national tastes diverge across the United States Britain France Italy and West Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. L. Sulzberger
Paris
United States
Britain
France
Italy
West Germany
Sugar squeeze echoes colonial era and oil crisis
The author argues that global sugar shortages mirror past oil shocks, with consumption outstripping cane and beet production. He notes Cuba and other sugar producers could gain political influence, urges increased production and wiser distribution in consumer nations, and suggests confederation among smaller lands as a relief path while warning of dependence on overseas supplies.
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Mauritius
Jamaica
Cuba
Havana
Riyadh
Saudi Arabia
Russia
United States
Soviet Union
China
Japan
Oil price showdown urged to curb western energy crisis
Washington insiders press President Ford to confront oil producing nations over rising prices. They warn of economic collapse and possible military action if a peaceful settlement fails. Allies fear cuts of oil supplies and NATO unity frays as Arab influence grows in the United Nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Anderson
Les Whitten
Washington
Ford
United States
West
Adolf Hitler
Rhineland
India
Bangladesh
Atlantic Alliance
America
NATO
U.S
Middle East
Israel
United Nations
The big enchilada escapes watergate accountability
The Nation reports on Nixon era fallout thirty months after the Watergate break-in noting nine Nixon associates convicted of felonies, fifteen who pleaded guilty, and multiple others awaiting or facing trials. It argues Nixon himself escaped impeachment and legal accountability via Ford's pardon and ill health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Wicker
New York
Democratic National Committee
Watergate
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Nixon Administration
Spiro Agnew
L. Patrick Gray
John J. Sirica
John Mitchell
H.R. Haldeman
John Ehrlichman
Robert Mardian
Kenneth W. Parkinson
Richard Nixon
Enchilada
Gerald Ford
Observer The day the Shah was shy
Russell Baker’s satirical piece imagines a world where only three ultra‑rich figures can still buy goods as supply and demand vanish. In a dim club, the Shah and King Faisal discuss his woes while prices soar to absurd levels and the last pants and milk vanish from the market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell Baker
Minerva
Nelson Rockefeller
King Faisal
Shah of
Iran
General Motors
Faisal
King
Shah
Aristotle Onassis
Onassis
Rockefeller
Will Report Joe Kapp Gets Revenge
George F. Will examines Joe Kapp's clash with NFL rules, the Rozelle Rule, and the 1970s antitrust challenge. He argues the NFL’s draft system suppresses salaries, keeping owners profitable while limiting player freedom to negotiate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George F. Will Washington
Minnesota Vikings
Joe Kapp
Kapp
Boston
National Football League
NFL
Bligh
Rozelle
Ture
Pete Rozelle
District Court
Congress
AFL Nfl
NFL Players Association
Washington
NFLPA
The
Washington Post Co
Obituary notes and staff credits from Biddeford-Saco Journal
The Biddeford Saco Journal lists staff and family memorials with Wm. E. Foster 1881 1963 Alta W. Foster B F C Whitehouse 1891 1971 1889 1972 W Paul Casavant publisher Charles C Sutton managing editor Gladys M Whitehouse president and treasurer in a brief local notice.
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Wm. E. Foster
Alta W. Foster
B.F.C. Whitehouse
W. Paul Casavant
Charles C. Sutton
Gladys M. Whitehouse
Lreachor
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