Dutremble trip questioned as wasteful taxpayers’ bill
Biddeford Mayor Lucien Dutremble returns from a Washington conference touting benefits while critics call the trip a junket. Taxpayers may face about $170 in costs, deemed peanuts by supporters but a disapproved use of public funds amid rising municipal expenses.
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Biddeford
Lucien Dutremble
Washington, D.C
U.S
Dutremble
Congress
Washington
Maine
Watergate remark falls flat in Marion with Reagan
Washington column notes Ronald Reagan muted on Watergate during Illinois visit. Lyn Nofziger cites audience reception as reason for omitting the Watergate remark in Belleville and Marion. The piece contrasts Reagan’s past stance with Ford’s rise and Nixon’s pardon.
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George F. Will Washington
Lord Chesterfield
Chesterfiel
Marion
Ill
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
Bang
Gerald Ford
Illinois
Richard Nixon
China
Hampshire
Nixon
Ford
Mr. Reagan
Ixon
Belleville
Malecgate
Lyn Nofziger
Political payoffs total about $8 million
Investigative report links at least eight million in illegal corporate payoffs to U S politicians over ten years. Four firms Ashland Oil Gulf Oil Northrop Aircraft and Phillips Petroleum aside from Nixon Ford and others. SEC records show payments to 45 lawmakers with few returning funds.
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Jack Anderson
Les Whitten
Washington
Ashland Oil
Gulf Oil
Northrop Aircraft
Phillips Petroleum
Terry Repak
Marc Smolensky
Securities and Exchange Commission
White House
Ford
Phillips
House
Richard Nixon
Ashland
Nixon
Congress
SEC
Howard Baker
R.tenn
Carl Curtis
R.-Neb
Henry Jackson
D.-Wash
James McClure
R.-Idaho
J. B. Johnston
D.la
Wilbur Mills
D.-Ark
Mills
James Eastland
D.mass
Tip O'Neill
Gulf
Hubert Humphrey
D.minn
Humphrey
Mark Hatfield
R-Cre
Birch Bayh
D.ind
Northrop
U.S
State Dept
Thailand
Leonard Unger
Unger
Executive Branch
Red-Hot Kissinger Leaker Plot Revealed in Chaos
A State Department aide tries to enlist a New York Times columnist to publish secret Kissinger papers. The exchange spirals through fear of government probes and media retaliation as the leaker pressures for exposure while the writer resists.
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Russell Baker
New York Times
NEW York
State Department
America
FBI
Congress
Daniel Schorr
Bozo
CIA
Schorr
Henry Kissinger
Kissinger
Home birth debate grows as mothers favor at home deliveries
The article surveys rising home births in the United States with doctors like Dr. Gregory White noting a shift from 50 50 to about 70 30 home to hospital deliveries. It cites a Santa Cruz project finding no increased complications and critiques hospital obstetrics while acknowledging resistance from medical bodies.
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Paul Harvey
Los Angeles Times
National Center For Disease Control
CDC
Gregory White
Fred Ettner
Chicago
Cook County Hospital
Ettner
American College of Obstetricians
American College of Nurse- Midwives
Stork
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