Smoking crusade debate pits regulation against democratic safeguards
The article surveys two anti smoking campaigns led by HEW Secretary Califano and the American Cancer Society. It weighs regulatory options including tar and nicotine limits, tax moves, ad restrictions, and subsidy cutbacks against the feasibility of a nationwide ban. It emphasizes that the core challenge is individual psychology and social norms, not simple legislation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Energetic
HEW
Joseph A. Califano Jr
American Cancer Society
Califano
The
Cancer Society
National Commission On Smoking and
Commission
Maryland ethics bill exposed as political theater and delay
A Baltimore Sun style column argues Maryland's ethics bill is a hollow, delayed effort. It criticizes gifts, income disclosure, and travel provisions as lax, notes Mandel's case, and laments election-year politics undermining a real code of conduct. It warns that voters deserve full transparency from lawmakers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annapolis
Maryland General Assembly
Marvin Mandel
Mandel
Marvin
Blair Lee
Senate
Steny H. Hoyer
State Treasury
Bermuda
Maryland Banker’s Association
Bankers’ Annual Convention
General Assembly
Hoyer
Lee
Maryland
Letters to the Editor voice fuel and nuclear energy debate
Readers dispute fuel adjustment passes for Potomac Edison and demand equitable charges for western Maryland. A letter-writer argues West Virginia policy raises costs on local customers, while another urges rapid nuclear power diversification and criticizes overreliance on coal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Potomac Edison
Maryland
Kenneth C. Foote
P.O
Mussetter Rd
Tramsville
Foote
Eastaleo Aluminum Company
Maryland PLC
Weinberg
Maryland Psc
Memory hole and MOPPS study critique in energy policy
A commentary recalls George Orwell and the memory hole as background to ERDA’s MOPPS energy studies. It notes multiple, shifting price supply estimates failed to support an energy crisis and reports a government order to remove and destroy the 1977 final report due to erroneous information.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Orwell
Big Brother
Mopps
Energy Research and Development Administration
ERDA
Administration
Department of Energy
DOE
Livsey
Library and Statutory Distribution Service
U.S. Government
Preparations for Park Opening and Local School Attendance
Baker Park work proceeds with shrub trimming and building renovations while Broad Run School notes perfect attendance for March with 933 percent. Alderman Burall seeks a third term after eight years, and engineers study the U S 40 dualization from Frederick to Hancock. Overnight snow squalls hint at lingering winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broad Run School
Evelyn Beachley
Evelyn Danner
Evelyn Routzahn
Lucille Boyer
Hilda Shifer
Maxine Hutter
Mary Poffinberger
Frances Routzahn
Harold Danner
Edgar Poffinberger
Emory Aha
Andrew Maught
Thomas McDade
William B. Burall
Harrisburg
Frederick
Hancock
State Roads Commission
Washington mob tied to Medicaid killings. Illinois clinic owner abducted
Eugene Zipperstein, Chicago pharmacist and clinic owner, was kidnapped and slashed, now in critical condition as part of a broader mob linked Medicaid probe. Report cites murdered partners Allen Zipperstein and Robert Fields, alleged hitman William Roderick Hill, and doctor Max Kaye amid claims of mob control over welfare medicine on Chicago's south and west sides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Eugene Zipperstein
Chicago
U.S. Treasury
Allen Zipperstein
Zipperstein
Robert Fields
Ard
William Roderick Hill
Max Kaye
Hill
Underworld figure Weiner tied to doctors network and fraud schemes
Jack Anderson reports Irwin Weiner, linked to Louis Rosanova and Anthony Accardo in police files, as a mastermind behind a national clinic network for Teamster use and an early backer of Zip perstein. He faced a 1975 fraud indictment over $1.4 million in the Teamster Pension Fund and saw a key witness murdered before his trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Midwest
Weiner
Louis Rosanova
Anthony Accardo
Felix
Milwaukee
Phil" Alderisto
Teamster
Zipperstein
Fields
DiLeonardi
Combine
Fostnate
Tedersi
Irwin Weiner
Teamster Pension Fund
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By Dave Goeller
Associated Press
Ambrose Thompson
Mary Ann Thompson
Frederick Co
Frederick County
Ambrose
Bernard
Barnabay
Austin
Richard
Valentine
Sarah Ann
Helen Darrah
St. Sedalia, Mo
Harold E. Stelling
Middletown
NEA Inc
Hamilton Jordan
Wall Street Journal
Kemna Fromm
Baker Park
Mob
Crooks
Medicaid
Joseph DiLeonardi
Bill Halamandaris
Kaye
Alten Zipperstein
Mike Stein
Ilinois
Public Aid
Stein
Underworld
By Jack Anderson
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