Duke Plans to Eliminate Forestry School Amid Budget Deficit
Duke University facing a 3.4 million budget gap moves to shut down its graduate School of Forestry and a prime animals study lab. Endowment fell from 134 million in 1972 to 77 million, while hospital plans proceed. Critics call the decision secrecy and snobbery. administrators cite deficits and a shifting private university model for the 1980s.
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Robert B. Cullen
Associated Press
Durham
N.C
Duke University
James B. Duke
Duke
Wall Street
Fredric Cleaveland
Cleaveland
Forestry School
Terry Sanford
Charles W. Ralston
Ralston
Law
James Wuenscher
War spills into northwest Cambodia Battambang
AP dispatch from Battambang Cambodia recounts a government battalion retreating in a half mile green line across rice fields after being driven from a village. The Army cites low morale and shell shortages while rebels overrun a rice depot and press toward the provincial capital. Officers lounge at Hotel La Piscine as the defense deteriorates.
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Matt Franjola
Associated Press
Battambang
Cambodia
Maj. Nong Kry
Mong Russei
Maj. Kry
la Piscine
Khim Sao
DA To Ask Ehrlichman Charge Drop
LOS ANGELES AP The district attorney will move next Monday to dismiss perjury charges against John D. Ehrlichman former White House aide. Dist Atty Joseph Busch said it is in the best interest of justice and taxpayers' money not to proceed given Ehrlichman's conviction and sentencing in two Washington DC trials. Ehrlichman was indicted for perjury after denying knowledge of the 1971 burglary of Daniel Elisberg's psychiatrist's office.
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Los Angeles
District Attorney
John D. Ehrlichman
White House
Dist
Joseph Busch
Ehrlichman
Washington, D.C
Daniel Elisberg
Utilities Bill Aims to Restructure North State Commission
Senate debate will tackle a bill to expand the Utilities Commission from five to nine members and create three panels for rate decisions. The measure, approved by the Senate committee, would repeal the fuel adjustment clause and shift fuel charge approvals to the commission, a change opponents fear could delay relief to customers. The bill also reworks projections used for rate requests and faces uncertain House action.
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Raleigh
State Senate
The
Utilities Commission
Senate Public Utilities and Energy Committee
Senate
House
Hugh Wells
Wells
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