Bicentennial reflections call for vigilance and virtue
The Clarke Frederick Winchester area marks the end of a four day Bicentennial observance with key organizers named. The speaker urges continued democracy, fiscal restraint, and educated electorates to preserve the nation’s free society amid war, corruption, and rising government centralization.
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Clarke County
Clarke-Frederick
Winchester
Tom Baldridge
H.B. Pierce Jr
Rhoda Maddox
Frederick County
Barbara Chrisman
Frederick
Linda White
Ted Morgan
H. Robert Edwards
Clarke- Frederick-Winchester
America
United States
Washington
No Changes In Method of Picking Up
Washington reports both parties debate vice presidential selection reforms after Agnew and Eagleton disasters. Carter dominates Democratic prospects while Ford and Reagan enter a prolonged GOP race. Proposals include longer conventions and a screening panel with limited action to delay a 1976 VP pick until 1980.
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Washington
Jimmy Carter
Ford Ford
Ronald Reagan
Spiro T. Agnew
Missouri
Thomas F. Eagleton
South Dakota
George McGovern
McGovern
Democratic National Committee
Humphrey
Agnew
William A. Steiger
Wisconsin
Robert P. Griffin
Michigan
Congress
Griffin
Gerald R. Ford
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Bill Brock
Tennessee
FBI
Institute of Politics of the Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
Harvard
Steiger
Glenn Foes Split Over Vice Presidential Pick
Glenn faces opposition not from organized labor but from Carter's liberal advisers who fear his right leaning views and military background. Carter insiders weigh Mondale Church and Stevenson as possibilities while Kirbo guides a cautious VP choice with Ohio loyalty as leverage.
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Washington
Sen
John Glenn
Ohio
Jimmy Carter
Carter
Glenn
Democratic Party
Labor Movement
Afl-Cio
Labor
16Th Street
Henry M. Jackson
Walter Mondale
Minnesota
Frank Church
Idaho
Edmund Muskie
Maine
Adlai Stevenson
Illinois
Mondale
Church
Atlanta
Charles Kirbo
Kirbo
Georgia
Stevenson
Black Caucus
Charles Schultze
Brookings Institution
Schultze
Johnson Administration
Congress
House
Charley Schultze
Tim Wirth
Colorado
Columbus
Humphrey Hawkins
Humphrey-Hawkins
Superpowers’ Influence Waning Says Reston In Analysis
James Reston argues that the United States and the Soviet Union face reduced global leverage as European Communist parties seek autonomy from Moscow. He notes Lebanon and Vietnam failures push reassessment, while debates in East Berlin show a shift toward independent paths and a more open global economy.
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Washington
United States
Soviet Union
East Berlin
Moscow
Ussr
Leonid Brezhnev
Lebanon
Beirut
Vietnam
Angola
Rhodesia
Enrico Berlinguer
Czechoslovakia
Communist Party
Brezhnev
Italy
France
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Winchester Evening Star
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Lewis H. Ebert
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