Uruguay's Tupamaros Overthrow of Government
In Uruguay the Tupamaros guerrilla group toppled the parliamentary government and prompted the military to seize power in Montevideo. The regime promises no elections before 1976 with a 50 percent wage raise aimed at stabilizing unrest. The national workers federation was dissolved and its leaders arrested as observers warn of a long dictatorship ahead.
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Tupamaros
Sen
Enrique Erro
Argentina
Montevideo
Congress
National Workers Federation
Song of the Scythe and Lessons in Money Discipline
The piece recalls a grandfather mowing with a scythe and the music of the blade as a symbol of old craft. It contrasts past farming with modern changes and urges parents to teach children money discipline, avoiding debt and modeling saving habits.
Trains and a hurried rider spark on Martinsburg rails
A reader recalls the era when mail trains were central to rail life. At Martinsburg B O station on a Sunday, mail bags flew around and trains 5 1 12 16 19 carried destinations to Chicago St Louis D C New York and Detroit. A hurried man with a handbag sought Pittsburgh as locomotive 5227 roared past at speed and the scene framed Nostalgia versus danger.
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the Star
Star
Harry K. Thaw
Martinsburg B. and O
Chicago
St. Louis
D.C
New York
Detroit
Pittsburgh
Tabler
Martinsburg
Nixon faces Senate over White House tape recordings
Senate probes Watergate as Alexander Butterfield confirms White House and OEB devices record conversations from Sept 1972 onward. Tapes include talks with John Dean III and alleged knowledge of efforts to cover up for Nixon's 1972 re election. President urged to allow access or risk escalation.
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Washington
Senate
Alexander P. Butterfield
White House
FAA
Cabinet
Lincoln
Camp David
John W. Dean III
Dean
Nixon
Senate Investigating Committee
Carl Curtis
R-Neb
Barry Goldwater
Rariz
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Jacob K. Javits
R-Ny
Congress
New York
CREEP faces backlash over legal fees and staff costs
The piece reports Republican leaders and donors reacting to CREEP paying over 80 thousand dollars in legal fees in the second quarter of 1973. It highlights names Maurice Stans Jeb Magruder Herbert Porter and Devon Shumway plus the party’s desire to close CREEP and use its 1972 surplus to pay legal costs. It also notes broader Senate liberal opposition and internal disputes over Watergate related investigations.
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Washington
National Party
Nixon
George Bush
Bush
CREEP
Creeps
Maurice Stans
Vesco
Jeb Magruder
Herbert Porter
Stans
Walter J. Bonner
Devon Shumway
Millionaire Stans
Fossils Hint at Ancient Landmass Shift From Pole to China
Chinese scientists claim fossils found in northwest China resemble those from Antarctica South America and South Africa suggesting continents moved apart over time. The 1969 Antarctica fossils matching African species bolster the theory that landmasses once shared close origins and later drifted to current positions.
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South Pole
China
Northwest
Antarctica
South America
South Africa
Africa
Army Pvt Stern earns honor graduate at Fort Gordon
Army Pvt Jerome S Stern son of Mr and Mrs Jack Stern of S Stewart St received the honor graduate award at graduation exercises at Fort Gordon Ga He was the top student in the communications center special course Total enrollment in Winchester five public schools during the past school year was 3239 Sonny Cather tied as amateur racing favorite capped the third running of the Soap Box Derby His burial of General Pershing at Arlington National Cemetery was noted Richmond Virginia reports 1948 infantile paralysis cases reached 50 with three new victims listed over the weekend
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the Star
Richmond Times-Dispatch
William O. Douglas
Washington
American Federation of Government Employees
Afl-Cio
Army Pvt
Jerome S. Stern
Jack Stern
S. Stewart St
Fort Gordon, Ga
Communications Center
Winchester
C. Irvine
Sonny” Cather
John Joseph
Pershing
Arling National Cemetery
Richmond
Virginia
Daily Meditation God in the Heart
A Hindu legend says the divine gift was hidden in the center of each person’s nature within the heart. The Bible calls us sons of God, and Emerson notes a spark of divinity in everyone. People look outward for help, yet God is within.
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Brahma
Ralph Waldo Emerson
IQ Quiz Challenge for Young Readers
The questions cover geography history and vocabulary. Answers seek the body of water between Britain and Eire the March King a carnivore or omnivore the clover leaves closing at night the Falklands location Blucher Mule Moccasin and Brogue as shoe types the state named for its founder the blood-requiring fleas true White Sands proving grounds location and the correct plural scarf or scarfs.
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Great Britain
Eire
Falkland Islands
South Pacific
South Atlantic
White Sands Proving Grounds
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Song of
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By Jack Bell
By Rowland Evans
Robert Novak
Averell Harriman
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G. McMurtrie Godley
Laos
State Department
Joe McCarthy
William H. Sullivan
Philippines
Harriman
Sullivan
Charles S. Whitehouse
Saigon
Godley
Charles Whitehouse
Whitehouse
Southeast Asia
Foreign Service
J.W. Fulbright
Arkansas
Fulbright
U.S
Kenneth Wherry
Joseph R. McCarthy
Communist Movement
Sam J. Ervin Jr
D-No
Jesse Helms
R-Nc
House
Baltimore
Martinsburg Journal
C.C. McDonald
P.O
Jerome Waldie
California
Box 331
Earth
Winchester Evening Star
Jack F. Davis
Thomas T. Byrd
Eugene P. Miller
Douglas B. O'Connell
I.Q
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