Exasperation and timing in Pa stop-gap funding debate
The column analyzes Governor Shapp’s Aug. 5 statement that stop-gap funding would exacerbate Pennsylvania’s problems. It argues the plan was not a solution but a temporary expedient, while lawmakers fought taxes and spending, plunging state operations into chaos without authorization to spend.
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Mason Denison
Harrisburg
Shapp
Pennsylvania
Webster
Capitol Hill
Noggin
A Time to Die: Jim Connolly Remembers Dublin Revolt
Jim Connolly endures six days of Dublin Easter uprising as British forces crush 1,300 rebels. He faces death with calm courage, prayer, and duty, while Grace Gifford marries Joe Phinkett moments before the firing squad.
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Jim Bishop
Dublin
Jim Connally
Jim Connolly
Connolly
Jim
Connally
Liberty Hall
Nora
Lillie
Kilmainham
Grace Gifford
Joe Phinkett
Father Aloysius
Joe Plunkett
Big Jim
Canal Lengths Fact Sheet For Major Waterways
It's A Fact compares canal lengths with the Panama Canal at 50.71 miles, the Suez Canal at 100.6 miles, and the White Sea Baltic Canal in Russia at 141 miles. The brief lists these figures to show relative sizes of these waterways.
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Panama Canal
Suez Canal
White Sea-Baltic Canal
Russia
Interior Dept Aids Hunters Endangered Species List
Washington report alleges Interior Department official Robert Herbst softened protections for endangered animals to aid hunters. The piece cites Herbst’s involvement with Safari Clubs International and a contested vote for hunters at an international conference. The article also covers related political maneuvering and regional Cold War notes including Indochina updates.
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Washington
Interior Dept
United States
Robert Herbst
Uke
Ku Klux Klan
Herbst
Safari Clubs International
U.S
Minnesota
Senate
Canal Zone Treaty Yet to Be Ratified by Senate
Commentator B J Cutler argues the United States and Panama reached a principled agreement on the canal after decades of conflict. He notes Panamanian concessions, a 23 year U S hold on the canal, a U S military presence until 2000, and tolls covering a 50 million annual rent, while warning against demagoguery that could derail the treaty and provoke instability.
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B. J. Cutler
Canal Zone
United States
Panama
Panama Canal
Carter
Canal
U.S
Senate
Carter Eyes 1980 Narrowed Delegates Rules Shake Party Structure
In Washington Carter operatives push to weaken reforming rules aimed at broadening grass roots input in choosing the 1980 Democratic presidential nominee. Key proposals seek a 25 percent threshold for delegates and to give elected officials voting power, while avoiding curbs on grassroots influence.
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Martha Angle
Robert Walters
Washington
Carter
Democratic National Committee
Morley A. Winograd
Michigan
Democratic Party
Winograd Commission
Detroit
Richard G
Rick) Hutcheson III
White House
Carter Organization
Anne Wexler
Hutcheson
Wexler
Task Force
Lawn care advice and flight fuel savings facts
The Colorado State University Extension Service advises keeping grass two inches or higher and mowing often so no more than one third of the blade is removed. Slowing a DC 8 by 14 mph adds four minutes to the Chicago Los Angeles flight but saves 164 gallons of fuel. Margaret Gorman, 16, of Washington DC, was crowned Miss America in 1923. There are two living ex presidents Nixon and Ford and five former vice presidents Nixon Ford Rockefeller Humphrey Agnew.
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Colorado State University Extension Service
Chicago
Los Angeles
Margaret Gorman
Washington, D.C
Miss Gorman
United States
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Nelson Rockefeller
Hubert Humphrey
Spiro Agnew
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Indiana Evening Gazette
Indiana. Printing & Publishing Company
Water St
Indiana, Pa
RHR
Donnelly
Sally BR. Naylon
Elizabeth R. Sween
Joan Ray Reece
Penteney
Joseph L. Donnelly
Russell M. Hickey
Hana Joseph L. Donnell
William B. Hasting
Frank B. Hood
Associated Pyest
Wlt
AP News
Carrier Boy
Magihly
Indiang
Annerong
Cambria
Clearfield
Jefferson
Westsmoreland
Dally
Indiana
Jack Anderson
Les Whitten
Clement Zablocki
D.wis
House
Thomas
Tip" O'Neil
Committee On
Zablocki
O'Neill
Milwaukee
North Atlantic Assembly
Indochina
Saigon
South Vietnam
Laos
Cambodia
Thailand
Vietnam
Mekong River
Grafeite
Ronald Reagan
Teddy Roosevelt
Latin America
Ed. Cutler
Scripps-Howard News- Papers
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Carter Eyes
New Hampshire
Morris K. Udall
D-Ariz
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