Armys 1.1 Billion Commissary Scandal Exposed
Washington reports reveal a 63 page 1970 study detailing looting and mismanagement across Army commissaries worldwide. Highlights include phony cashier figures in Saigon, $2 million in bad customer credits, rot and sale of overstocked beef in Bangkok, and large uncollected losses. Thievery by staff, delayed audits, and poor accounting plagued facilities from Bangkok to Fort Dix. The piece also notes generals hoarding favored foods and Cammy Calley seeking spiritual refuge amid My Lai fallout.
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Washington
Saigon
Bangkok
Toyal Thai
Behan, Lincoln, Wilde and a boyhood memory bag
A reflective sketch blends a boy's plush collection of heroes with Brendan Behan as a vivid, impulsive spark. The narrator links Behan to other icons, shares Behan's Dublin family lore, a portrait of his volatile upbringing, and the afterglow of Behan's fame and death.
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Abraham Lincoln
Madame Curie
Herbert Hoover
Carl Sandburg
Whitney Young
Brendan Behan
Thomas Jefferson
Oscar Wilde
Robert £. Lee
Winston Churchill
Lincoln
Young
Lee
Wilde
Churchill
Behan
Ulick O'Connor
Brendan
Tools from a Smithy Echoes of Old Time Craft
The narrator visits Elgin to view family tools believed 100 years old, including four hammers and a spoke shaver likely made by Uncle Fred and possibly by his grandfather. He recalls the artisan skill of old-time smiths who forged tools to his kin, noting nostalgia as a strong human emotion and reflecting on a bygone craft.
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Eaton
Priscilla Mullins
John Alden
Mr. Smith
Lowville
Fred
Wich
Elgin
Uncle Fred
Spong bills six month jail for eco porn ads
Virginia Senator William B Spong Jr introduces a bill to jail or fine purveyors of eco porn advertising six months and 310000 dollars for false and deceptive claims about pollution abatement The proposal amends air and water laws to curb misleading ads and is backed by Senate Public Works members including Baker Bayh Dole Muskie Randolph The measure aims to force truthful ecological claims and penalize deceptive promotions rather than merely policing ads.
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William B. Spong Jr
Virginia
Spong
Howard Baker
Tennessee
Birch Bayh
Indiana
Robert Dole
Kansas
Edmund Muskie
Maine
Jennings Randolph
West Virginia
Public Works Committee
Senate
Grass roots opinion on power sources in Rockland
The Rockland Maine CourierGazette comments on electricity demand and clean air and water concerns. It notes three power sources hydro nuclear and fossil fuels facing opposition. The piece warns of potential dim prospects if all sources are blocked and jokes about kerosene lamps.
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Rockland
Couriergazette
Corry draft board chairman to stay on until successor named
In Corry 20 years ago Henry Wheeler resigned as chairman of the Corry draft board over President Truman's dismissal of General MacArthur and agreed to remain until a successor is appointed. John Grice celebrated his second birthday with a party by his mother WWis Grice on Park Street. Waterhouse of mis ory with Assemblymen Dalrymple and Blair discussed Gov Fine's income tax and related matters approved by the House.
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Henry Wheeler
Corry Draft Board
Truman
General MacArthur
John Grice
Robert Grice
Park Street
W. W. Waterhouse
Mis Ory
Delbert Dalrymple
Stanley Blair
Gov. Fine
Corry
Povarce
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Army Comptroller General
Defense Department
Worldwide Review of Army Commissaries
Army Harbors
Chiselers’ Haven
By Jack Anderson
Fort Dix
N.J
Inchon
Korea
Seoul
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Ind
Fort Richardson
Alaska
Japan
Army
Thailand
Calley
William Calley
My Lai
Dublin
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Behans
English
Russell Street
Granny
Karl Marx
Stephan Behan
Paddy English
Paddy
Dominic
Patrick Kavanagh
Kavanagh
I.R.A
Jackie Gleason
Gleason
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