Corps of Engineers overreach sparks Virginia suit
Virginia Attorney General Andrew P. Miller filed in U S District Court to declare Smith Mountain Lake off limits to Corps control arguing the lake is landlocked and navigability is state regulated. The piece links federal authority to broader political aims and hints at campaign issues around bureaucratic overreach.
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U.S
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
U.S. Navy
Army Engineers
Med
Indian Ocean
Army Corps of Engineers
Kerr
Roanoke
Philpott
Smith River
Corps of Engineers
House
Senate
Congress
Corps
Virginia
Andrew P. Miller
U.S. District Court
Smith Mountain Lake
Commonwealth of Virginia
Miller
Meeting Elton John For Maria Aged 14 In NYC
A writer recounts a wish by a nearly fourteen year old girl, Maria, who has lived in New York for ten years. She asks to meet Elton John as a birthday gift, while the narrator and friend strive to arrange it, confessing they lack the means and connections to reach the pop star.
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Elton John
Maria
New York City
National Velvet
Elizabeth Taylor
Marvin
Alice In
Derland
France
Dallas Redskins
Rolling Stone
Tower of London
Gerry Ford
Pope
Golda
Meier
America
Time Magazine
Teddy
Howard Hughes
Darwin
Road to serfdom debated by Mont Pelerin panel at Hillsdale
Hillsdale College hosted a Mont Pelerin Society seminar with Hayek’s work as the focus. Noted economists and politicians including Friedman Buckley and Lipsett discussed inflation, taxation, and the dangers of expanding government power across eight nations.
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Willsdale, Mich
Mont Pelerin Society
Friedrich Hayek
Hillsdale College
Mont
Milton Friedman
Mont Pellerin
Hayek
Mont Peterin
Don Lipsett
Alberto Benegatiandi
Argentina
Free” Press
Congress
Alejandro Vegh Villegas
Mont Pelerin
Uruguay
Italy
Antonio Martino
University of Messina
John O’sullivan
England
Ole Jacob Hoff
Norway
North Sea
Hillsdale
Jerry Ford
Lifeboat Ethics and World Hunger Reflections
A lifeboat dilemma ranks global inequality where six of one hundred own a third of resources while ninety four starve. The piece cites political resistance to sharing, warns of war famine pestilence and death, and contrasts Kissinger and Jesus quotes on hunger and aid. It also notes 1975 USDA spending on a private dining room and Rainy Day Foods profit from shortages.
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Butz
Agriculture Department
Rainy Day Foods Company
Senate Watchdog Sees Regulatory Reform Falter
Senator Barry Goldwater argues federal reform efforts fail as White House shifts strategy to coax agencies into self reform. He notes 66 000 regulators seek control over their futures and criticizes premature campaign push and internal White House discord. Business groups largely back the drive while many state critics doubt progress.
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Ford
White House
Congress
Puncturing a Myth on the New Deal and Mood
The piece argues against the belief that big business caused the Great Depression mood and that the New Deal restored the economy. It cites data from 1936 to 1938, 1947 to 1938 declines, unemployment figures, and inflation. It argues that depressions followed government inflation, not private booms, and critiques Kissinger Reston for perpetuating a myth.
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State Department
Henry Kissinger
James Reston
Newsweek
New York Times
Dr. Kissinger
Harvard
America
George Washington
Paul Samuelson
John Kenneth Galbraith
Kissinger
Roosevelt
Federal Reserve System
Mr. Kissinger
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Internal Revenue Service
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Sudha Shenoy
India
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Gandhi Action
Gulliver
L. D. Johnson
Furman University
Coad
Henry A. Kissinger
Rome
Jesus
Jerusalem
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Barry Goldwater
Jeffrey Hart
Danville
Hellister Publishing Co., Inc
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