Preserve Danville DT&P to secure federal bus funds
Perspective argues two practical reasons to keep Danville Traction and Power Company until UMTA funds arrive. It warns a court injunction could end subsidies, jeopardizing eligibility for a federal grant and risking higher future bus costs, urging preservation to maintain private enterprise and city access to $288,000 in assets.
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Danvillé Traction and Power Company
Urban Mass Transportation Administration
Danville
Easity
Dt&p
UMTA
Caswell Plans Endorsed for Growth Yet Lacks Plumbing
Sunday's Register reports Caswell County's land use plan rates natural resources excellent for future agricultural industrial and recreational development. It notes 40 percent of dwellings lack plumbing facilities and urges public review at a Thursday hearing at 8 p.m. in the county courthouse in Yanceyville. County residents are urged to attend.
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Sunday's Register
Caswell
County Line Creek
Rowland Evans And Robert Novak On French Left Coalition
In Paris observers fear the Union of the Left could empower the French Communist Party through shared ministries shaping defense foreign policy and police. Mitterrand’s Socialists aim to preempt Communists while warning Eurocommunism risks extending influence to Italy, altering Europe’s political map and Atlantic ties.
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Paris
Communist Party
Union of the Left
Elt
Francois Mitterrand
Socialist Party
France
Italy
Europe
U.S
Jacques Chirac
Giscard Estaing
Giscardiens
ITAL
Timate
Giscard
Nicolae Ceausescu
General Assembly
Mitterrand
George Marchall
Rom
Moscow
Washington
Tthe
National Assembly
Gastor Deferre
Soviet Union
Mitterand
Labor
Atlantic Community
Many Uses Of Richard Nixon And The Lasky Book Review
A discussion of Victor Lasky’s I Didn’t Start With Watergate with favorable notes from William Safire and Patrick Buchanan, plus Washington Post review quotes. The piece argues Nixon’s downfall lies in a profume factor and calls for broader contextual reading of Nixon’s offenses, with citations from Wills Hamill Breslin and Lewis.
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Nixon
Victor Lasky
Watergate
William Safire
Patrick Buchanan
Washington Post
Nick Thimesch
Buchanan
Lasky
Meg Greenfield
Newsweek
LBJ
Johnson
Ihnen
Kennedy
John Profumo
Spira Agnew
Alger Hiss
Agnew
S.tis
Garry Wills
Boris Karloff
Pete Hamill
Bela Lagos
San Clemente
Jimmy Breslin
Anthony Lewis
Richard Nixon
Stiffkey
ICI
Heaven and Earth
Paradise
Scandal hits Washington education merger flaws
In Washington DC, a push to merge DC Teachers College with Federal City College and Washington Technical Institute into the University of the District of Columbia faces backlash after waivers let four underprepared students graduate and move into teaching. Critics say waivers expose systemic flaws, questioning the value of degrees earned without mastery in math and other subjects.
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Washington
D.C. Teachers College
Federal City College
Washington Technical Institute
University of the District of Columbia
Teachers’ College
D.C
Teachers’ Union
Luspe
Invention of a Master Console to Protect Language
James J. Kilpatrick riffs on a humorous invention a warning device for every workspace. He mocks bureaucratic jargon and inflated phrasing in education and media, imagining a space ship style console sounding alerts at clichés and misuses of language. The piece blends satire with a tribute to Edwitt Newman and Mr. Buckley.
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Washingtonian Magazine
Buckley
Arkansas Gazette
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Mass Transit
Rowland Evans and
Robert Novak
William F. Buckley Jr
Ralph de Toledano
James J. Kilpatrick
Newman
Scrabble
Edwitt Newman
Woodville
Ford
Biock
Singer Company
Anita Bryant
Post
Bronx
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