Hearthstone Inc seeks Kennebunk zoning OK for 16 residents
Kennebunk Appeals Board will decide tonight whether Hearthstone Inc located in the former Leach Nursing Home on Storer Street can open a rest home for 16 adults with mental retardation. Neighbors fear neighborhood change though founders argue state funding is possible and the facility is not a threat.
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Kennebunk Appeals Board
Leach
Storer Street
Hearthstone Inc
Hearthstone
Sweetser Home
Saco
Kennebunk
Robert Demers
Portland
Washington Scene: How to make things worse by Reston
James Reston surveys allied defense tensions in Madrid and Washington over base payments arms embargoes and European stability. He notes Franco's grip Turkeys deadline Greece and Portugal moves NATO leverage and warns the United States cannot bully Europe or impose policy. The piece stresses the strategic value of bases from the Azores to the Middle East and the risk of American disengagement.
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James Reston
Madrid
United States
Spain
Turkey
Greece
France
NATO
Portugal
Italy
Generalissimo Franco
Rota
Europe
U.S
Strategic Air Command
Sixth Fleet
Mediterranean
Ford
Franco
London
Paris
Congress
Capitol Hill
Cyprus
Washington
Moscow
Giscard
Schmidt
West Germany
Mitterand
Azores
All
Middle East
Tito
Yugoslavia
Soviet Union
Adriatic
New York Times
Notable biographical note for Foster Whitehouse editors
Alta W. Foster and B F C Whitehouse years 1891 1971 1889 1972 appear with staff credits W Paul Casavant publisher Charles C Sutton managing editor Gladys M Whitehouse president treasurer in a historical newspaper snippet.
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W. Paul Casavant
Charles C. Sutton
Gladys M. Whitehouse
U.N. Ignores Cambodian Atrocities and Death March Testimony
Washington column reports the United Nations ignores the Cambodian forced urban evacuations. Intelligence memo cites mass death threats from hunger, disease, and exposure as Phnom Penh’s population is moved to the countryside. Additional notes cover Idi Amin’s anti Ford advice, patent lobby moves, Yosemite concession scrutiny, and a St Lawrence Seaway advisory board meeting in February 1972.
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Jack Anderson
Les Whitten
Washington
United Nations
Cambodia
White House
Phnom Penh
Amin
Deep Africa
Idi Amin
Uganda
Ford
Citizen Advisory Board
St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp
Bimini
They Dont Make Them Anymore Parody By Russell Baker
In a comic riff on consumer obsolescence Russell Baker laments the hapless search for replaceable parts and enduring hardware. A man keeps finding items supposedly discontinued from hinges to windows to mobile homes as his house drags him into a farcical hunt for replacements.
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Russell Baker
New York
Lumber-Company
New York Times
Paul Harvey on limits and Britain’s rise and fall
Paul Harvey argues that the United States must acknowledge its limits amid Vietnam fallout and foreign policy shifts. He contrasts American endurance with an insistence on a steadfast policy, urging renewal of Americanism while noting Britain’s historical rise after reform. He warns against complacency and calls for restraint and adaptation.
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Asia
George Fourth
William
Britain
Victoria
Hostage tale from Ireland ends with a wary warning
The 1974 Knocklofty kidnapping of Earl and Countess Donoughmore in County Tipperary unfolds with brutal restraint and moments of dark humor. The couple recounts fierce resistance, captors who resembled the IRA and Ku Klux Klan, and a dramatic rescue after five days. The Earl argues for reinstating the death penalty for terrorism.
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C.L. Sulzberger
Clonmel
Ireland
Emerald Isle
Republic
Earl
Countess Donoughmore
Knocklofty
County
Tipperary
Dy Donoughmore
Provisional
I.R.A
Irish Republican Army
IRA
House of Commons
House of Lords
Viscount Hutchinson
Dublin
Abbey Theater
Jeanie
Donoughmore
Donoughmores
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U.N
Henry Kissinger
Kampala
Australia
Americas
Egypt
Anwar Sadat
Israel
Sadat
Liberation
Sen
Hiram Fong
Hawaii
Monsanto
Senate Aid
Fong
Robert Seto
Music Corporation of America
Yosemite
Interior Department
National Park Service
MR. Politican
Los Angeles Times Syndicate
Paul Harvey News
Paul Harvey
Bob Hope
Vietnam
Hope
Oine
South Vietnam
Kissinger
Harry Truman
Gerald Ford
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