Maryland Law Aims to Shield Charge Account Customers
A Maryland statute effective July 1 requires retailers and financial institutions to reply to written account inquiries in 60 days or the debtor may withhold service charges from the inquiry date until the dispute is resolved. The law covers revolving store accounts bank cards mail order plans and any bill with a finance charge.
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House to Vote on Higher Interest Rate for Student Loans
On September 15 the House will vote on raising the permissible interest rate for government backed student loans. The Senate has approved the measure which would affect about 220,000 students who might otherwise be denied loans to continue their education. The bill faced House opposition over a proposed ban on loans to students involved in campus demonstrations.
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Letters to the Editor on race, politics, and american life
A reader criticizes a Rev Sheets meeting as chaotic and biased toward white respondents. The letter contrasts black and white attitudes, questions the church as a venue for racial debate, and laments rising prices, taxes, and inequality while urging national unity and accountability.
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Middletown News Journal Subscription Rates
The notice lists subscription terms for the Middletown News Journal. Rates include per copy 10 cents weekday and 20 cents Sunday, $0.70 weekly for city and suburban motor routes, $21.09 yearly by mail in trading area, $30 yearly outside trading area, and $38 yearly outside the USA. All subscriptions payable in advance. Founded in 1657.
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Letter to the editor on rising costs and grocery strain
A reader writes of financial anxiety and presses for relief, noting a family of five survives on about $20 weekly groceries while urging action on prices and living costs.
YMCA Membership Drive Emphasizes Health and Youth Programs
Local appeal urges joining the YMCA to improve heart health and fitness. The drive targets 2 595 new and renewal memberships with an $80 000 cash goal under Jim Townsley. It highlights the Business Men's Club health services and Youth programs including Indian Guide activities for fathers and sons.
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Anti-Semitism in Russia and Zionist myths in history
John P. Roche argues that Soviet anti Semitism is state policy and compares it to an imagined Zionist plot. He claims enduring hostility to Jews post Stalin and critiques Western media and liberal Zionist stereotypes with a hypothetical US Publishing Office volume.
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Israel
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Racist State Claim by Watchful Commentator
A fragment discusses ideas about Israel as a racist successor state to Nazi Germany and notes the persistence of harmful attitudes within societies. The excerpt critiques the use of allies to evade retribution and frames the issue as a contemporary exercise in moral judgment.
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Nazi Germany
Beware Zionism echoed in Soviet press
The piece notes the state backed publication titled Beware: Zionism! and its warm reception in leading Soviet papers. It contrasts the Soviet battlefield victory over Nazis with a perceived success of Nazi propaganda ideas as reflected in the review coverage.
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Beware Zionism criticized in USSR mockingly titled
The article condemns antisemitic propaganda in the United States and notes the USSR reception of Yuri Ivanov's 1969 work Beware: Zionism. It characterizes the book as portraying Jews negatively and argues such rhetoric is used as political pornography.
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Exodus of Dual Citizens Revisits San Marino Vote
Six hundred Americans with dual citizenship return to San Marino to vote in the September 7 elections. The aim is to boost the Demo-Christian Party to a majority in the Great and General Council. The piece notes San Marino’s history, the absence of a president, and the recent switch to absentee-ballot replacement by in-person voting, plus the influence of local leftist groups and unusual foreign connections.
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Language Borrowings and Historical Terms Snapshot
The excerpt traces the sardine term for pilchard offspring and oil preserved varieties, notes robot's 1923 popularization from Czech robit meaning to work, explains map deriving from Latin mappa, and describes Free Silver as a West versus East coinage debate in the 1696 U.S. presidential campaign.
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