Pittsylvania Supervisors Back VT School Plan Amid Jail Woes
Thursday night the Pittsylvania County Supervisors voted 3 to to approve building a central vocational technical school on the Dry with a $1 million state grant at risk. They offered no final plan for the deteriorating jail, deferring to the State Board of Corrections and prompting calls for decisive action before disaster.
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Pittsylvania County Supervisors
Danville
State Board of Corrections
Board of Corrections
Carter era abortion plan faces skepticism and cost fears
Washington reports HEW Secretary Joseph Califano plans to fund alternatives to abortion through sex education and contraception. Critics warn teen sexuality is rising and that preventing pregnancies may not curb abortions or save government costs. They fear unsafe methods and societal harm if access remains restricted.
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Washington
Carter
Joseph Califano
Health, Education and Welfare
Califano
HEW
Uncle Sam
Johna Hopkins
Melvin Zelnt
John Kantner
Zelnik and Kantner
Buckley Lashes Back at Liberal Twaddle on Nixon Book
A critical review attacks The Abuse of Power by Jack Newfield and Paul du Brul. It contests arguments that Nixon used a mandate to dismantle Great Society programs and questions the authors’ portrayals of inflation, the budget, and policy outcomes.
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New York City
Murray Kempton
Michael Harrington
Peter Maas
Robert Caro
Socialist International
New York
Nixon
Jack Newfield
Paul du Brul
America
Dolar
Ben
Rosenthal
Queens
William Simon
Wall Street
Bond
Carter missteps threaten renewed U S Soviet talks
In a sharp critique, the piece argues President Carter miscalculated the impact of his human rights push on SALT and Moscow. It urges admitting error, restoring trust, and scheduling a fresh Brezhnev summit to reset Soviet American relations.
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Carter
Russia
Soviet Union
Hag
Brezhnev
Vietnam
Cuba
Panama Canal
Rai
Congress
House
Cambodia
Laos
Uganda
Panama
Moscow
Henry Jackson
Senate
Ford
Howard Baker
Nyet
The Long Unwinnable War In Rhodesia
Rowland Evans and Robert Novak examine Rhodesia after a dawn clash near Umtali in which 15 guerrillas were killed as ZANU forces infiltrate tribal trust lands. They argue the white minority's counterinsurgency wins battles but not the war, with guerrillas adopting village power and deserting to blue jeans.
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Unitali
Rhodesia
Mozambiqué
Maranke
Land
Mozambique
ZANU
Mao Tese-tung
Ian Smith
Rhodesian African Rifles
Vietnam
Ard
Zimbabwe
Zambia
ZAPU
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Rowan
Museum OF Natural
William F. Buckley Jr
Spain
Suarez
Joseph Kraft
Rowland Evans and
Robert Novak
Salisbury
Lmtali
Umtali
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