Teenage volunteers aid reading in Old Orchard Beach
Five sophomores from the local high school serve as Literacy Volunteers to help younger students read. They assist with phonetics, ask questions about passages, and run an anagram activity. Tutors, teachers, and the program director praise the teens for responsibility and measurable gains in reading levels.
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Old Orchard Beach
Karen Smith
Donna Mrowka
Sharon Garland
Debbie Hardy
Kim Audie
Mona Harmon
Frank Daley
Kathy Marston
Barbara Frost
Debbie
Church Says CIA Possibly Involved In Assassinations
Senate intelligence chief Frank Church said CIA assassination plots may have led to murder attempts and could involve indirect agency participation. Rockefeller Commission report to Ford omits CIA assassination findings and will be handed to the president, with limited time for full inquiry.
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Formant
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Lumumba
the Tribune
Money May Be Loosening Up Maine Banking
Local bankers report an optimistic view of the economic upturn with more mortgage money available for homes and improvements. Rates have eased from last fall but uncertainty lingers as Washington fiscal needs loom for years. Loans favor property turnover. building remains slow and existing homes look cheaper than new ones.
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Washington
Laurence Staples
York County Savings Bank
Biddeford
Staples
Wayne Hutchins
Biddeford Savings Bank
Louise Cook
Associated Press
Elsie Watters
Tax Foundation Inc
Egypt plans quiet cargo pass through Suez Canal test case
U S officials say Egypt will allow nonmilitary cargoes for Israel to traverse the Suez Canal with both sides avoiding public acknowledgment. Kissinger expects no active test as Sadat opens the canal trade route amid regional sensitivities. In London a separate report shows Britain favored to stay in the European Common Market by a large margin with high turnout. An overnight London-Glasgow sleeper crash in Nuneaton kills seven and injures 36 as rescue teams eagear to clear wreckage and question the cause of the derailment on the Caledonian Express.
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U.S
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Henry A. Kissinger
Anwar Sadat
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Yaacobi
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Britain
England
Scotland
Wales
Northern Ireland
Bank
Richard Bickel
English Channel
France
Aide To Testify Against Gurney In Shakedown Case
James L. Groot, once chief aide to Sen. Edward Gurney, pleads guilty to one felony charge reducing a potential 24 year sentence to five years and agrees to testify against Gurney in a bribery conspiracy trial. Groot loses civil rights and awaits his role in the ongoing case against Gurney, ex-aide Joseph Bastien, and others over a $233,000 slush fund from FHA influence.
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Tampa
Fla
Edward Gurney
James L. Groot
Groot
Gurney
Joseph Bastien
Wayne Swiger
Ralph Koontz
Federal Housing Authority
Inflation Quote in Cartoons Page Sparks Reader Debate
A brief item notes a quip in the journal section Cartoons about inflation. The comment mocks rising prices after money is obtained and questions its real purchasing power. The concise blurb anchors the discussion in the Maine Roundup area.
Drought in East Africa causes mass nomad deaths and herd losses
Thousands of nomads and millions of livestock perished across eastern Ethiopia and Somalia amid prolonged drought. Rain relief arrived in parts, but aid officials warn recovery will take years and billions. The Ogaden Desert borders Ethiopia and Somalia, with many nomads facing forced settlement and farming as traditional life collapses. About 17,000 have died in Somali relief camps since October, and human death toll remains uncertain.
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Nairobs
Kenya
Ethiopia
Somalia
Ogaden Desert
Hunger Clamps Haitian Families in Drought Stricken North
In Gonaives and across Haiti's north, more than half a million peasants face starvation as eight to twelve months of drought devastates crops and livelihoods. Marie Joseph, 40, her five children, and relatives scrape by on mango and sorghum with livestock dying from the heat and dust. Government and American relief efforts struggle to mobilize amid widespread deprivation.
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Haiti
Marie Joseph
Joseph
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