Downtown Danville CBD faces future with renewed vigor
A survey reflects Downtown Danville after Phase I improvements in the Central Business District. Despite shifts like grocery departures, the area remains a central shopping hub with new streets, parking plans, and ongoing municipal planning. The piece compares reform efforts to historic endurance and highlights free curbside parking and the end of meter-maid traffic control as rising trends.
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Danville
Mark Twain
Danvile
City of
Cbd
Filly Winning for Autistic Children at Au Clair School
A 3 year old pacer bought by the Au Clair School for autistic children has earned $351,438 in two years of racing. Kenneth and Mrs Mazik built a large farm and a stable of horses after purchasing Silk Stockings in 1972 as vocational training for students. Despite early rejections by wealthy buyers due to her delicate legs, the horse proved to be a financial and inspirational boon to the struggling school and its program.
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Kenneth Mazik
Au Clair
Maziks
Pike questions Colby as CIA probe opens
House Select Committee on Intelligence chaired by Rep. Otis Pike grills CIA Director William Colby in a downtown Washington hearing. Pike faults open society costs and secrecy, arguing taxpayers bear the burden while questioning CIA openness and budget. Colby testifies on 29 pages amid a courtroom like setting in the Rayburn Building.
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Otis Pike
New
Select Committee On Intelligence
CIA
Pike
William Colby
Rayburn
Colby
Stanton
Ohio
Dellums
California
House of Representatives
Senate
Pious Frank Church
Idaho
House
Richard Helms
Central Intelligence Agency
Robert Drinan
Massachusetts
President Allende
Chile
Castro
Departments of Defense and State
The Rehabilitators and the CIA in the Cold War
The piece argues detente fuels efforts to rehabilitate jailed or exposed Communists, targets the Hiss case, and asserts a broader push to erase Cold War memory. It critiques Irving Younger on Hiss, condemns secrecy in CIA budgeting, and laments loss of public trust due to Watergate and Vietnam.
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Washington
United States
Senate
Institute of Pacific Relations
Colby
Select Committee
CIA
Congressional Committee
Portugal
America
Vietnam
Republic
Chile Barred UN group over human rights inquiry
Ralph de Toledano argues Chile, led by President Augusto Pinochet, blocked a United Nations Working Group from investigating alleged political persecution. He notes pre-judgment by UN bodies, Cuban and Soviet subversive activity, and public support for the Pinochet regime, urging an independent ad hoc panel to assess the current situation in Chile.
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Chile
United Nations Commission On Human Rights
United Nations
Soviet Union
Gulag
Uganda
Agusto Pinochet
U.N
International Labor Organization
Conference of the
U.n.’S Inter
Fidel Castro
Salvador Allende
Santiago
George Gallup
Allende
Pinochet
Helsinki trip tests Ford amid ethnic politics and Baltic fears
Column analyzes how Ford’s Helsinki remarks clash with U.S. policy on the Baltic states and Soviet influence, noting the power of Baltic, Czech, Polish, Romanian, and Greek American votes. It cautions that real detente must satisfy ethnic constituencies and hints at Azores ties shaping regional sentiment in New England.
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Yugoslavia
Tito
Belgrade
U.S
George Ball
Helsinki
Red Army
Jerry Ford
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Edward J. Derwinski
Illinois
Derwinski
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Connecticut
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Ohio
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Portugal
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Madeira
Azores
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New Bedford
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Europe
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