Reagan Schweiker pick shows labor angle in bid for delegates
Reagan taps pro union liberal Sen. Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania as running mate, aiming to peel labor support in the Northeast. AFL CIO and COPE leaders shift stance amid Carter competition, while Blue-collar Catholics weigh abortion and Taft Hartley repeal in Pennsylvania and beyond.
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Pennsylvania
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Reagan
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CIO
al Barkan
COPE
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Barkan
Scoop Jackson
Jackson
Afl-Cio
Leonard Woodcock
The
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Steelworkers Union
L.W. Abel
Steelworkers
Abel
Schweiker
Nelson Rockefeller
Rocky
New York State
Jerry Ford
Rockefeller
Deep South
Ronnie
Kansas City
Mondale
Elwood Richardson Names Paul J. Day Business Manager
Paul J. Day is named business manager with Elwood Richardson serving as executive editor. The appointment aligns the newspaper’s leadership under Day’s management while Richardson continues guiding editorial strategy from the editor’s desk.
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Elwood Richardson Business Manager
Paul J. Day
Olympics future in doubt as politics shadow games
The article argues the Olympics reveal nationalism yet discipline and urges U S leadership to ensure open amateur participation. It warns nations might veto athletes, threatens American non participation could spark a new, cost efficient Olympics in the United States, and cites scripture to close.
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Republic of China
Taiwan
Moscow
International Olympic Committee
Montreal
United States
U.S
Mars Love Story Ends In Elopement Or Cosmic Narrow Escape
Teen lovers Beelox and Galicksy plan marriage as their families clash over class and ambition. They sneak to a neon sign wedding chapel offering $10 ceremonies, but a private interruption halts the ceremony as tension rises.
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Beelox
Galicksy
Local newspaper rates and a desert tale of initials on rocks
The piece opens with a mundane listing of Middletown Ohio newspaper subscription rates, then shifts to a sensational vignette about a detective and a couple fleeing into the desert to end their lives, leaving rock initials "B" and "G" that Viking I supposedly photographed. Scientists call the initials optical illusions, while mocking the public’s imaginative interpretations.
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Galicksy
Beelox
Ft Devens crusade tests Massachusetts politics and Defense
Massachusetts debates closing Ft Devens as a national defense risk and economic disaster. The House and Senate clash over a one year delay on closings with figures like O Neill Harrington Kennedy and Drinan involved. The episode highlights regional anti militarist sentiment and political maneuvering.
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Boston
Department of Defense
Devens
Robert Drinan
Massachusetts
Washington
Ft. Jefferson
Thomas P. O'Neill
House
Brooke
Senate
South Dakota
Drinan
Readers praise sponsors for girls softball support
In a letter to the editor a reader thanks coaches and sponsors for girls softball efforts, cites hard work by Judy Warner and Bill Brumfield, and recognizes Reece Spence for funding a tourney in Miamisburg. The writer urges more local business support and praises parental teamwork and honesty.
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Judy Warner
Bill Brumfield
Reece Spence
Miamisburg
Ong
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