Frederick City to overhaul police department policies
Mayor Paul Gordon outlined extensive reforms based on a three member commission’s recommendations for the Frederick City Police Department. Proposals include a tactical drug team, two cadet corps for youth and retirees, revised promotion rules, broader deputy chief authority, expanded dispatcher staff, a public media relations plan, equipment upgrades, and a streamlined internal operations manual.
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Frederick City
Paul Gordon
Gordon
Richard J. Ashton
Frederick
Frederick County
Cadet Corps
Ashton
Talks ease tension in Lithuania in meeting with Soviet officers
Lithuanian Deputy Premier Romualdas Ozolas and Interior Minister Marijonas Misiukonis met Col. Viktor Smokarev and Col. Vladimir Trikoz after talks with Soviet officers in Vilnius. They said mood improved and no security moves would occur without notice. Lithuanians reported 100 military vehicles, flights over cities, and occupation of three Communist Party buildings, while calling for prosecutions of troops for illegal actions.
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Vilnius
U.S.S.R
Moscow
Baltic Republic
Romualdas Ozolas
Ozolas
Marijonas Misiukonis
Viktor Smokarev
Vladimir Trikoz
Interior Ministry
Mr. Ozolas
Kazimiera Prunskeiic
Vytautas Landsbergis
Supreme Council
Landsbergis
Valentin I. Vareonikov
Independence
Institute of Marxism-Leninism
Communist Party
Franciskas Benucins
Higher
Urbana man makes bluebirds happy
John Davidson, 88, of Urbana, has built hundreds of bluebird houses and related wooden items to benefit the North American Bluebird Society. A retired electrician and former pistol champion, he works daily in a basement workshop crafting birdhouses, holiday figures, pillows, and rugs for senior citizens, non profits, churches, and schools while displaying awards from Iowa pistol clubs and recalling decades of crafting and sewing.
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John Davidson
Thurston Road
Urbana
Iowa
Bluebird
North American
Bluebird Society
Detrick researcher battles leafy spurge on farms
Gerald Leather of Fort Detrick leads a USDA lab study on leafy spurge, a rampant weed blamed for millions in losses on western farms. He grows the weed with natural herbicide targets, notes its aggressive spread, and explains current chemicals' limits and the quest for allelopathic plant controls.
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Gerald Leather
North Dakota
Fort Detrick
Mr. Leather
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Chestnut Grove
Fish and Wildlife
Maryland
USDA
Leather
Tragic Bronx Nightclub Fire Kills 87
A man ejected from the Happy Land social club returned with gasoline and set a pre dawn fire killing 87 people. Julio Gonzalez, 36, charged with arson and 87 murder counts, arraigned in Bronx court. Authorities crackdown on illegal social clubs as survivors recounts and safety failures.
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NEW York
Bronx
Julio Gonzalez
Happy Land
Edward Burns
Bronx County
Rikers Island
Burns
Pern
Anthony de Vita
Gonzalez
James Malvey
Raymond O'Donnell
Lt. O'Donnell
David Dinkins
Continental United States
Beverly Hills
Southgate
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Triangle Shirtwaist Co
New York City
Abortion Lobbyists Glad It’s All Over In Maryland
In Annapolis lawmakers shelved a Senate compromise that would have let voters decide abortion law. Pro choice and anti abortion lobbyists agreed the House Environmental Matters Committee disposal ends this year’s fight. The Senate later passed one pro choice bill and a restricted anti abortion bill.
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Annapolis
House Environmental Matters Committee
Senate
Maryland
Richard J. Dowling
Maryland Catholic Conference
House Committee
Pro Choice
Dowling
Karyn Strickler
Maryland National Abortion Rights League
General Assembly
Ms Strickler
Weather outlook and upcoming bulk trash collection notices
The forecast calls for a clear and much colder night with lows in the lower 20s. Tuesday will be sunny and cold with highs in the mid to upper 40s. Western Maryland weather map appears on page A-2, and bulk trash collections will conclude next week with maps showing each area’s collection date.
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Maryland
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Lithuania
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Christina Barnes
News-Post
St. Peter's Episcopal Church
Poolesville
Detrick
Curb Tunes
Timothy Jacobsen
Valarie Williams
Taiya Tribit
South Frederick
N.Y
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