Vietnam veterans homecoming and reflections on 5 year mark
Frank Fire 27 recalls his Vietnam service and contrasts his return with that of POWs. He speaks of wearing a uniform home and notes his postwar life including GI bill plans while two children are part of his long road back. The article places the five year withdrawal anniversary in historical context.
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J.R. Dall Ford
Elyria
Elyria High School
Lorain County Community College
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Carter Aims $25 Billion Tax Cut Plan From Carter Aims $25 Billion Tax Cut Plan
President Carter proposed an economy boosting 25 billion dollar tax cut with 34 billion in net cuts after offsetting 9 billion in new revenues. The plan lowers personal rates, corporate rates, and payroll taxes while curbing deductions for luxury expenses and foreign earnings. If Congress rejects the package growth would slow and unemployment rise.
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Washington
Carter
Congress
U.S
United States
Sadat vows to bar Jews in Sinai and seek peace
President Anwar Sadat told an emergency Egyptian parliament session that Israel must withdraw from captured Syrian and Jordanian lands before Sinai. He vowed to fight to keep Jewish settlements out of the Sinai while insisting the 1973 war would be the last and that the peace initiative would continue.
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UPI
Anwar Sadat
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Sinai
Carter
Ezer Weizman
Menahem
Numbers in an Age of Technocracy and Numeracy
An essay on how numbers shape society and personal identity. It cites Richard Scammon urging numeracy, recalls Gallup in 1948 mispredicting Dewey, Yale’s Charles Ruggles critiquing the BLS index, and Chuck Barris manipulating bestseller lists. The piece argues numbers have vital uses yet inspire anxiety, ending with a prompt to turn to page D-4, col. 1.
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America
Richard Scammon
U.S. Census Bureau
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Congress
Chuck Barris
Babe
New York Times
Weather outlook and UPI crash report from Sinop
Not so cold weather with sunny Sunday followed by a partly cloudy Monday and small snow chances. In separate news, five aboard a U U21F military transport died in a crash near Sinop on the Black Sea coast after wreckage was located on a snow covered mountain top by a Turkish air force helicopter.
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Sinop
Turkey
UPI
Black Sea
Abidin Coskun
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