Stadium doubts cloud Phoenix pro football plan
Questions arise about a $20 million Phoenix stadium for a pro football franchise. Taxpayers may not pay the tab, but if attendance and revenues fall short, who covers bond deficits and related costs? Roads sewers and a Salt River bridge add strain on city funds, risking bonding capacity and funding for mass transit water and public buildings. Promoters would reap profits from the venture.
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Haig On Watergate Tape Gap Echoes Shakespeare
The piece imagines General Haig explaining the Watergate tape gap in Shakespearean style with echoes of Hamlet and Caesar. It jokes that his real explanation would compare to encounters with a strange unidentified force erasing tapes.
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Alexander Haig
John Sirica
Outer Space
Skyward images map farming future and desert risk
NASA satellite photographs reveal how land use and drought drive ecological changes from Niger to Cape Cod. Studies by MacLeod, Randall, and McConnell show ranch fences, urban sprawl, and lost agricultural land, urging smarter land use and taxation.
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Reader letter criticizes Herblock cartoons about Nixon
A Scottsdale reader argues that Evil existed before Nixon and urges Herblock to see a psychiatrist. The writer claims Herblock blames the White House for inflation, war, and poverty, and even earthquakes, portraying Nixon as cause of all ills.
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Herblock
Whte
Comet Kahoutek Seen as Scientific Event Not UFO
Dirk Stevenson explains that Comet Kahoutek will be visible to the naked eye from mid December to mid January, likely causing UFO rumors but not suggesting extraterrestrial craft. He notes its motion is real but not easily seen, and its nucleus and dust tail offer insights into cosmic origins.
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FAA
Phoenix
Nurse from Phoenix Drives Anti-Abortion Petition
A Phoenix registered nurse mobilizes to gather 41000 signatures for an Arizona constitutional amendment restricting abortion. The writer argues the issue infringes on a pregnant woman's rights to decide her own course and questions who should determine such critical personal decisions.
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Phoenix
Arizona
Ash Vows to Rule Energy Policy as Simon Faces Clash
Within two days of his appointment as energy czar Deputy Secretary William Simon confronts Roy Ash head of OMB who declares Ash and his staff will run the energy program while Simon handles policy. Nixon relies on George Shultz to curb Ash as Jackson presses Ash on the Alaska pipeline and EPA friction grows. Former officials consider Richardson running for Senate in New Hampshire with Cotton or Powell possible challengers.
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Wesley Powell
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Whitelaw Drawn Into Britain’s Economic Crisis
Prime Minister Edward Heath asks William Whitelaw, famed for easing Northern Ireland tensions, to tackle Britain’s economic crisis. He must mediate wage and price disputes while power shortages, oil sanctions, and a widening trade deficit strain the country as inflation rises and unemployment looms.
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