Language withdrawal prompts urgency in U S education
Washington report by Martha Angle and Robert Walters notes multilingual decline. Carter forms a panel to study foreign language trends after Rep. Paul Simon cites Helsinki Accords violations and rising linguistic isolation harming exports and international business. Experts blame educational focus and attitudes amid postwar retrenchment.
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Martha Angle
Robert Walters
Washington
Habla Mspanol
United States
Soviet Union
U.S. Foreign Service
Carter
U.S
Commission On Security and Cooperation In Europe
Simon
Monitoring Commission
Germany
Japan
Sweden
Richard I. Brad
Modern Language Association
Vietnam
Enterprise
Aasn
The End Of The Dream By Art Buchwald
Liberal View piece presents a satirical dialogue about Alaska oil and the pipeline, mocking public expectations and the fuel supply debates. It imagines a consumer at a service station facing choices from Saudi to Nigerian fuels and questions the feasibility of universal Alaska gasoline for Americans. The sketch ends with the line that it feels like the end of the American dream.
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Alaska
New York City
Midwest
Japan
Orman
Andrew Johnson
United States
Army Irradiation of Food Costs Millions, Yields Unedible Potatoes
Washington column reports the U S Army spent over 50 million dollars on food irradiation to sterilize and extend chow, but the process left many items tasteless or inedible. A confidential House memo accuses the program of duplicative waste while Downey calls for GAO scrutiny. The piece also notes bootlegging Laetrile Amygdalin near the Capitol via Liberty Lobby and profiles Adam Yarmolinsky’s return to government in disarmament affairs, amid past Hoover-era smear campaigns.
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Jack Anderson
Les Whitten
Washington
U.S. Army
House
Thomas Downey
D.-N.y
Attenton
General Accounting Office
Downey
Army
Federal Treasury
Liberty Lobby
California
Adam Yarmolinsky
Defense
Robert McNamara
Yarmolinsky
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Hoover
FBI
Carter Acknowledges Tax Deductions Scrutiny
Commentary notes President Carter promised action on tax deductible meals and lavish business entertainment. Treasury Secretary Blumenthal told Louisville Chamber that expense rules are too complex to enforce. Administration reviews meals travel club dues theater tickets and other expenses as business costs.
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Kenneth Eskey
Jimmy Carter
Carter
Treasury
W. Michael Blumenthal
Louisville Chamber of Commerce
Congress
Kennedy
Arraignment and local notices from Clymer area
Readable items include a Dixonville arraignment before Squire Butterworth by detectives Kinsley and Wood for malicious mischief, a 1952 Mrs. Pennsylvania contestant from Clymer at the Cambria County War Memorial Arena, a 1962 Brush Valley house fire leaving a nine member family homeless, and an Indiana County Mental Health board election of officers. The excerpt also presents a critical essay on tax deductions and a myth about illegitimacy tied to welfare, with researchers Moore and Caldwell cited.
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Clymer
Dixonville
Squire C.E. Butterworth
J.W. Kinsley
New York Central
GA. Wood
Pennsylvania Railroads
Indlang County
Pennie Noches
Pennsylvania
Cambria County War Memorial
Johnstown
Brush Valley
Kristin A. Moore
The
Urban Institute
Steven B. Caldwell
Cornell University
Kenneth Eskey
Washington
Scripps-Howard Newspapers
Inside Labor Firemen On Strike
Victor Riesel laments violent flames and ruined homes in cities struck by IAFF protests. He condemns picket lines that block nonstriking crews and urges arbitration, warning against tolerating public safety threats and lawbreaking by rank and file firefighters and police.
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Victor Riesel
Washington
International Association of Fire Fighters
Afl-Cio
Ohio
Indiana
Missouri
Dayton
IAFF
University City
St. Louis
Canton
Terre Haute
Ind
Joe Francis
San Diego
International Fire Fighters
Howie" McClennan
San Francisco
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Art Buchwald
Indiana Evening Gazette
Indiana Printing & Publishing Company
Water St
Jena
Lucilla R. Donnelly
Sally RE
Elizabeth H
Joan Ray
Joseph L. Donnelly
Russell M. Iuckey
William B. Hastings
Frank B. Ogd
Associated Press
AP News
Arostrong
Cambda
Grearfield
Jefferson
West
Moreland
Jely
Julius Richmond
Capitol Dome
Spotlight
Capitol Building
Peggy Davidson
Food and Drug
United Feature Syndicate
Ine
Wining & Dining
Indiana County Mental Health-Mental Retardation Board
Henry Mitchell
Tewspaper Enterprise Asa
Berry's
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