City license plates questioned by High Point council
The High Point City Council discussed continuing the contract with the Motor Vehicle License Plate Agency for 1977 tags. The piece questions the practice of city license plates as a revenue source and argues many North Carolina towns have dropped the program.
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Finance Committee
North Carolina
Alaska's Leap: Pipeline and Native Claims Shape Rapid Change
Editorial examines Alaska's vast resources and rapid development. It highlights the Trans Alaska pipeline and its mixed impacts, royalty revenues, and the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. It notes a push to designate lands and routes for gas pipelines while stressing conservation of wildlife and native communities.
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Alaska
Congress
Interior
New Data Brought Up Ray Oswald Links Inquiries
House investigators reveal Ray may not have acted alone with Portugal ties and a CIA monitored Oswald case. They question Cuba and Soviet embassy conversations in Mexico City and seek a $6.5 million budget to probe assassinations. Carter plans executive order to curb conflicts of interest after a national survey.
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Washington — House
Martin Luther King Jr
Lee Harvey Oswald
Mexico City
Oswald
Central Intelligence Agency
Kennedy
CIA
John F. Kennedy
Richard Sprague
Philadelphia
Sprague
Patty Hearst
FBI
New York State
Henry Gonzales
Jimmy Carter
Christmas In The Country A Quiet Time
A reflective piece from Scrabble Virginia on a rural Christmas. Burke's General Store sits apart from city shopping as birds, animals, and family gather in quiet, candlelit churches and snowy hills. The author notes simple pleasures, kin and grandchildren, and the beauty of a starry, silent night.
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Scrabble
Burke's General
Woodville
Neiman-Marcus
Slate Mill
New York
Chicago
Heather
Douglas
Gift list spoof ends with cash from South Korea
The Art Buchwald column riffs on holiday gifts for readers offering outrageous options from Cabinet posts to trips, then ends with the punchline that everyone will receive the same amount of money as congressmen once the South Korean Embassy is involved, in exchange for kind thoughts and future U.S. favors.
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Washington
Carter
Mr. Carter
Supreme Court
U.S. Postal Service
Richard Nixon
David Frost
Ronald Reagan
Kansas City
Richard Schweiker
Uganda
Idi Amin
el al Airlines
Bellevue-Stratford
Philadelphia
United States
South Korea
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