Global brief highlights Sudan Chad Libyan troop issues
In La Union El Salvador soldiers repelled a leftist attack as reinforcements hunted hostages. In Recife Brazil priest Reginaldo Veloso faces prison over a song backing expelled priest Miracapillo. In Khartoum two Chadian guerrilla groups unite to expel Libyan troops, challenging Libya's withdrawal claim.
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SAN SALVADOR
El Salvador
La Union
RECIFE
Brazil
Reginaldo Veloso
Vito Miracapillo
Permanent Council of Military Justice
Supreme Court
y Veloso
KHARTOUM, Sudan
Sudan
Libya
Chad
Goukouni Queddei
Army to seek bids for 9 mm replacement pistols
The Army on behalf of all services seeks bids for a new 9 mm semi automatic pistol to replace the 45 caliber and 38 caliber models in service. The move follows NATO alignment to standardize ammunition across allies.
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WASHINGTON
U.S
Army
NATO
Federal state project to curb Wilkes Barre subsidence
Washington AP reports a 1.8 million federal state project approved by the Interior Department to fill abandoned coal mines under Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania. The plan aims to protect 53 acres in Georgetown where 360 homes 25 businesses an industrial site and a church face subsidence risk. Coal pillars under the area are too weak and have caused minor collapses. anthracite was mined there from 1916 to 1941.
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WASHINGTON
Wilkes Barre
U.S. Interior Department
Georgetown
Local Weather Report Comes From Morning Figures
Yesterday's high reached 88 degrees and the morning low was 65. Today at 6 36 a m the temperature was unspecified while at 11 30 a m it stood at 61 degrees.
Fairfield Board approves 2.1 million school budget with tax rise
Fairfield Board of Education approved a 2.150 million dollar budget, up from prior figures, with a five mill real estate tax increase raising millage from 47 to 52 per thousand. Superintendent McHenry called it as lean as possible. The board also faced a tax exemption dispute from Ronald Hovis of Fort Ritchie, Maryland, who argued workers should not be taxed if their primary residence is elsewhere. The district expects 52 percent from local taxes and 27 percent from the state, with 2 percent in reserve funds and about 40 thousand dollars in federal funding.
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Fairfield Board of Education
Samuel R. McHenry
Lincoln Intermediate Unit
McHenry
Ronald Hovis
Fort Ritchie
Cascade
Hovis
Fairfield grave Deseret
Maryland
Rota
Rote
cereania
ivania
Massachusetts
Ivania State
Batenston Seferee
Adams County
Thomas E. Piper
Lebanon County
Bernard Weaver
John Richardson
Richardson
Elmer Gall
Mervin Myers
Planning land use key to future of farms says speaker
David S. Schreffler, chair of Millcreek Township Planning Commission, warned Latimore planners that without local control over land use, counties or state governments will decide farmland preservation. He stressed planning is not zoning but local empowerment to prevent farmland decline, citing Pennsylvania's 7 million acres and annual losses.
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Schreffler
Millcreek
Lebanon County
Latimore
Latimuare
Pennsylvania
National Agricultural Survey
Emmitsburg School Fate to Be Decided by Frederick County Sup’t
The Emmitsburg school issue hinges on Frederick County superintendent Stuart D. Berger after a five year advisory panel report. A feasibility study on bussing grades six through eight to Thurmont Middle School is recommended to align with a middle school concept, despite protests from Emmitsburg residents.
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E’Burg school
Frederick Sup’t
Frederick County
Emmitsburg
fithel Brauer
Frederick
Two Townships Review Historic District Plans
Cumberland and Straban townships discuss joint review with Gettysburg Municipal Authority and state officials on ordinances for historic district regulation tied to sewer improvement funding. A meeting may include the Straban Planning Commission. next meeting undecided. Subdivisions were approved for two parcels, and flood plain regulations were debated to comply with the National Flood Insurance Program. A used tandem grading machine was put out for bid.
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Cumberland and Straban
Tnship
Straban
Allen Larson
Gettysburg Municipal Authority
William McGlaughlin
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
GMA
astoric
Strachan Township Planning Commission
Cumberland Township
Soviet TV shows Warsaw Pact maneuvers amid Polish reforms
Polish television aired Soviet and Polish troop drills in northwest Poland as reformist debates loom. The broadcast followed a PAP report of joint exercises in southwest Poland during a vote to elect 2,000 delegates to the July 14 party congress, where Solidarity-linked delegates are present. Also featured was an interview with a Polish railroad engineer urging quick political resolution and a one hour special on two Kowalczyk brothers serving 25 years for a 1971 school bombing, fueling a clemency campaign.
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POLAND
PRINZ Associated Press
WARSAW
Red army
Polish Communist Party
Pomerania
PAP
independent labor federation
Solidarity
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
Communist Party
independent labor movement
Polish TV
Jerzy
Ryszard Kowalczyk
Littlestown school budget same mill increase approved
Littlestown School Board adopted a seven mill increase to fund a 3 38 million budget for 1981 82. real estate tax rises to 73 mills after earlier tentative plans to switch to an occupation tax were debated. Directors weighed potential losses and alternative cuts while farmers urged relief and a census based reassessment.
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Littlestown School Board
Jack Phillips
Phillips
state supreme court
Glenn Moyer
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Cape Henry
Nicholas Tittonis
New York City
Atlantico
GETTYSBURG
Danielle M. Slonaker
F.Field school board
VIRGINIA L. BOHN
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M. EILEEN GRAHAM
David S. Schreffler
county board of education
Brauer
committedicated
William H Winters Jr
Woodside Road
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Norman K. Lady
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