Taxpayers Revolt Across America Over Taxes And Spending
A sweeping taxpayer revolt spreads from state to federal levels as rising local taxes and costly government programs ignite protests. Readers decry road, sewer, school spending and subsidies, while demanding restraint and accountability in budgeting. The letter from The Editor segment cites anger over public funds supporting higher education, and calls for politicians to listen to the silent majority amid an election year climate.
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Letters To The Editor Reprise On BW Debates
In the News-Post from February 20, 1970 E P Magaha and I revisit the Detrick question. We argue that the ban on offensive BW and related actions reveal a Nixon era economy move. We note a proposed shift of defensive BW research to Utah to detach U S renunciation from Fort Detrick and discuss economic costs.
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Fort Detrick debate highlights congressional role in policy
A reader letter criticizes executive overreach in Fort Detrick shutdown and calls for Senate ratification of the Geneva Protocol before dismantling. The writer argues for stronger legislative input on national defense plans, taxes, and educational funding amid wider national controversies.
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Post
Modern four floor apartment building planned in city
A Baltimore Frederick syndicate plans to erect a four story cooperative apartment on the Elks Club site at Second Street. Frederick County suffered heavy rain last night washing down from Blue Ridge with over six hours of downpour threatening the wheat crop. Local gas plant improvements are planned to increase output after wartime fuel costs drove heating and cooking to gas. No more plain glass lenses are available for auto lights as lenses remain scarce locally.
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Vanishing weapon case and week of local incidents
A Buckeystown man was jailed Saturday on a $2,000 bond after an incident at a West All Saints St tavern where another Buckeystown man was shot in the right femur. the weapon remains missing. A separate crash on Route 240 injured one bus passenger and ten others avoided injury as a Washington bound Blue Ridge bus collided with a northbound tractor trailer, with bus damage pegged at $2,400. Camp Pickett prepares for Operation Chigger Bite with the 29th Division National Guard under Maj. Gen. Sands, including a simulated aggressor landing. Soap Box Derby trials on Bentz Street show Will Main leading in times.
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Schools narrow smoking plan after year trial in county
Montgomery County Board of Education adopted a compromise policy allowing smoking in designated high school areas only for students with signed parental permission kept on file. The 4 to 1 vote followed a 3 to 2 defeat of a total ban, citing potential student staff hostility and denied education for rule breakers.
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National Institutes of Health
Bethesda
Homer C. Elseroad
Reds Long Entrenched in Cambodia
Washington analysis rejects the belief that U S and South Vietnamese strikes on North Vietnamese bases sparked a Cambodian collapse. It argues that 15 years of Communist control already ran over much of Cambodia, with North Vietnamese troops, taxes, trade control, and political influence embedded in the country, and that migrations by Cambodians to South Vietnam show long-standing persecution rather than a new war.
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