Birdwood Grads Urged to Engage in Politics and Duty
Birdwood Junior College graduates heard four political challenges during Friday night commencement. The speakers urged involvement with lawmakers to curb spending, support constitutional limits, and participate in elections, citing wartime lessons and orderly civic duty. Named top graduates included Robert Terry Moncrief Jr and Cissy D. Hicks.
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Gayle Hayes
Birdwood Junior College
Langdon S. Flowers
United States
U. S
Birdwood
America
Flowers
Christ
Paul
Vera Maxwell
Robert Terry Moncrief Jr
Cissy D. Hicks
Thomasville
Douglas H. Poole
Miami
Fla
Raymond S Thompson
Moncrief
Linda S. Timmons
Bob E. Wyrick
Tommy Jack Harper
William Jack McCullers
Walter Franklin Strickland
Cheryl Johnson Presha
Berenice Folsom Mitchell
Jerry Eugene Wilford
Raymond
Thompson
Lynn Norris Drew
Thomas Paul Taylor
O'Neill Plans Candidacy To Succeed Carl Albert
Washington AP. Tip O'Neill Jr. plans to seek the speakership after Carl Albert announced retirement. O'Neill already holds 165 of 289 Democratic votes and is favored to become speaker in January if Democrats retain the majority. He faces a contest for majority leader from John J. McFall Phillip Burton and Richard Bolling.
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Washington
Thomas P
Tip” O'Neill Jr
Massachusetts
House of Representatives
Congress
O'Neill
Carl Albert
Oklahoma
House
John J. McFall
Phillip Burton
California
Richard Bolling
Missouri
Albert
Cam
Richard M. Nixon
Jimmy Breslin
Largest heroin ring tied to Thai Connection exposure
Nine of ten defendants were found guilty in a conspiracy to illegally import heroin linked to Leslie Ike Atkinson of Goldsboro. DEA officials described the operation as a multiyear, multimillion dollar network moving drugs from Thailand through the United States with military personnel involved. Sentences ranged up to 25 years with fines, while key witness Freddie Thornton provided the pivotal breakthrough.
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Raleigh
N.C
Leslie “Ike
Atkinson
Thailand
Goldsboro
Don Ashton
North Carolina
Federal Drug Enforcement Administration
DEA
Ashton
United States
Franklin T Dupree Jr
Leslie Sharon Arrington
Michael Otis Arrington
Dupree
Air Force
Charles Murphy Gillis
Gillis
Army Cwo
William King Wright
Washington, D.C
Arringtons
Army
William Kelly Brown
Augusta
Rudolph Valentino Jennings
Lina
San Francisco
Freddie Clay Thornton
Detroit
Mich
Thornton
James Warren Smedley
Jasper Myrick Jr
Smedley
Bangkok
Atlanta
New York
Washington
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Carter Campaign Ends Swing Through New Jersey
Jimmy Carter concludes his campaign tour in New Jersey ahead of the state and California primaries and Ohio voting day. Brown and Humphrey back uncommitted slate as Udall also makes final push. Carter targets Cherry Hill and Elizabeth stops while stressing Middle East policy and Israel statehood.
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Trenton
N.J
New Hampshire
Jimmy Carter
New Jersey
Carter
Garden State
California
Ohio
Georgia
North Jersey
Cherry Hill
Edmund G
Jerry” Brown Jr
Brown
Hubert H. Humphrey
Morris K. Udall
D-Ariz
Udall
Camden
Woodbridge
Paramus
Ford
Ronald Reagan
Elizabeth
Middle East
Soviet Union
United States
Mediterranean
Elizabeth Jewish Education Center
mid-East
Israel
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