Winchester budget discussion weighs next year tax impact
Winchester City Council debated the 1978 12.9 million budget with 13 percent real estate and 8.33 percent personal property tax hikes. Councilmen Shendow and Glass urged cuts to ease future year needs, as public hearings set for June 14 and citizens prepare to weigh in on fiscal 1979 cushioning.
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Winchester
William Shendow
Tom Glass
Glass
Shendon
Wendell Seldon
A Small Act of Strangulation By Carter
A Washington Star Syndicate column attacks Jimmy Carter for cutting off funds to the Rhodesian Information Service and supporting a UN resolution. It mocks Carter's foreign policy claims and lauds Rhodesian director Kenneth Towsey who faced campus hostility while operating from 2852 McGill Terrace.
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Carter
Washington
Jimmy Carter
Rhodesian Information Service
UN Security Council
Andrew Young
Ian Smith
Salisbury
Ambassador Young
Notre Dame University
Notre Dame
McGill Terrace
Kenneth Towsey
John Hooper
Towsey
Virginia
Remember The Marshall Plan by James Reston
James Reston surveys the 30th anniversary of the Marshall Plan in Paris noting Europe’s mixed memory of its goals. He traces the plan’s origins to Washington figures like Acheson Harriman Kennan and Will Clayton, and argues its aim was European political unity with U S partnership. The piece highlights debates on reform before aid, the lingering link between Europe and the United States, and how nationalism and Vietnam era distrust color younger Europeans’ view of America.
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Paris
Europe
America
Churchill
United States
Lord Franks
Washington
General Marshall
Harvard
Dean Acheson
Averill Harriman
George Kennan
Will Clayton
Marshall
William McChesney Martin
Federal Reserve Board
Martin
U.S
Committee of Europan Economic Cooperation
North America
Western Europe
European Economic Community
United State
Vietnam
Jean Monnet
New Consumer Czar Could Be A Menace
A 1977 opinion piece argues Carter backs a proposed Consumer Protection Agency led by a Consumer Czar. It warns of broad powers to intervene in federal offices and compel compliance, detailing risks to business, oil and gas supplies, dairy and footwear sectors, and potential labor impacts.
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United States Press. Inc
Washington
Ralph Nadar
Carter
Dan Marriott
Utah
Agency For Consumer Protection
Nader
Senate
Congress
Nader & Co
Consumer Czar
Letters by Saturday Set for Democratic Primary
Editors urge letters to the Star must reach by Saturday June 11 to be considered for publication before or on election day due to space and time constraints.
Worries Over U.S. SALT Strategy Reagan Era
Column questions U.S. SALT negotiators led by Cyrus Vance after Geneva proposals reportedly set high Backfire production ceilings. It argues U.S. haste for any treaty masks weak strategy and raises doubts about verification, mobile missiles, and the broader aim of SALT III.
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Washington
U.S
Geneva
Cyrus Vance
Senate
Congress
Vance
Andrei Gromyko
Gromyko
Carter
Moscow
Kremlin
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By James J. Kilpatrick
Washington Star Syndicate
Harvard University
Harvard Law School
Towley
Jimmy Caesar
Rhodesia
By James Reston
N.Y
By Frank Vander Linden
Labor
Nadar
By Rowland Evans
Robert Novak
CIA
Henry M. Jackson
Soviet Union
Pentagon
Evans—Novak
Evening Star
Thamas T Byrd
Roy E. Potts
Lil
Lewis H Ebert Douglas B. O Connell
Eugene P Miller
Dwedo
Edioy
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