Mikulski Presses Catastrophic Health Care On Elder Care
In a meeting with editors, Senator Barbara Mikulski recalls her father's dying care and argues for protections against spousal impoverishment. She favors keeping some personal funds and living expenses intact to maintain dignity, while noting Congress has not finished addressing elderly health care.
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Congress
Ms. Mikulski
Bob Reid
American Association of Retired People
Maryland
Barbara Mikulski
Toppling the Evil Empire and a Siberian prison solution
In a satirical column, the author mocks East European democratization and US fears of a Soviet trap while proposing an outlandish plan to outsource drug offender detention to Russia. The piece riffs on glasnost, gulags, and a prize winning scheme to house criminals in Siberia for cost and deterrence.
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America
Europe
Bush
Mikhail Gorbachev
Soviet Union
U.S
United States
Jim Young
Jim
Russia
Siberia
Artie
Alote
Frederick County WPA work in 50 housing project planned
Fifty years ago Frederick officials described WPA timekeeper oversight as 130 attendees attended a union banquet at Calvary Methodist Church. Awards were given by Kiwanis members to local residents. Frederick Housing Authority announced federal approval for a 50 black family housing project to cost about 175000 to 200000 dollars, requiring fourteendif dwelling sites and razing the abandoned South Bentz Street school on two and three quarter acres.
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Frederick County
Frederick
John L. Shaw
Frederick Housing Authority
Phebus Avenue
DeGrange
West South
South Bentz Street
Snow limited in Frederick County as December opens
Twenty years ago December arrived with snow flurries in Frederick County but no measurable accumulation for most areas. Daytime highs reached the lower 40s, with strong westerly winds up to 30 mph. At Hood College Coffman Chapel, “SOUL in the Chapel” fostered black philosophy awareness featuring Barbara Conrad and 15 Hood students performing works by contemporary black authors and composers in monologue, choral reading, dance and song.
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Frederick County
Coffman Chapel
Hood College
Barbara Conrad
Hood
Probes expose insurance industry panic at convention
Consumer advocates seek to unveil insurance industry secrecy as John Crosby of the National Association of Independent Insurers likens consumer critics to Hitler. Nader and others receive apologies from the association as GAO completes a six month probe into insurer ledgers, highlighting industry concerns.
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Washington
John Crosby
National Association of Independent Insurers
Crosby
Ralph Nader
Hitler
Nader
Lowell R. Beck
Association
Insurance Profits and Estonian Tensions Split Public Focus
Jack Anderson argues the insurance industry exaggerates losses to justify high rates while Congress questions oversight. He cites a 22.6 billion profit from 1978 to 1967 and tax avoidance via future-loss write offs, urging reform. The piece also covers Estonia’s ethnic strife amid Russification, noting deportations, population shifts, and emigration patterns into the 1980s.
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Nader
Congress
House
James Florio
D-N.j
New Jersey
Florio
GAO
Stup stalls Grove Stadium spending in Frederick County
Frederick News Post reports Commissioner J Anita Stup votes to curb Grove Stadium funds. She aligns with Commissioners Grossaickle and Smith to halt high costs, while McClellan Derr and ex mayor Young criticize architects and advocate a $900000 extra spend. The piece urges fiscal prudence and hints Stup as a future delegate candidate. It ends with a Christmas gift suggestion: quit smoking for health and others’ sake.
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Frederick County
J. Anita Stup
Grove Stadium
Frederick News-Post
Board of County Commissioners
James McClellan
John Derr
Ronald Young
Mrs. Stup
Stup
Richard Grossaickle
Charles Smith
Mr. Young
McClellan
Keys
Sterling Bollinger
Mr. BicClellan
Bollinger
Frederick City
Letters to the Editor on smoking risks and global communism concerns
A reader argues smoking raises fire risk and harms life quality, urging restraint and better health. Another letter attacks perceived Soviet changes, warns of world government aims, and calls for US sovereignty and a return to sanity by opposing communist regimes. Ruth Shriver and John H. O’Hara are cited as contributors from Bowie and Westminster.
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Poland
United States
Soviet Union
Big Brother
Washington
Hitler
African National Congress of
South Africa
el Salvador
Nicaragua
Castro
Cuba
Czechoslovakia
Latvia
Lithuania
Estonia
Romania
Afghanistan
Mikhail Gorbachev
West
Questioning the church and Rome overreach in politics
A reader laments church influence in government citing historic persecutions and a today clash in San Diego where Bishop Leo Maher allegedly pressures Assemblywoman Lucy Killen to align with Catholic dictates or risk communion loss. The letter warns Rome may overstep, noting many US politicians are Catholic.
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Rome
News-Post
America
Leo Maher
San Diego
Lucy Killen
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United Feature Syndicate, Inc
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Myersville
John H. O'Hara
Bowie
Ruth Shriver
Westminster
Lisa D
Etzler Walkersville
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