Winchester adopts 11 million dollar budget for 1975-76
Winchester City Council approves an 11,169,335 budget for fiscal 1975-76, setting a tax rate of 1.15 per hundred and citing a 144 percent increase over the current year's 9,765,377. Finance Chair James H. Fleming notes limited citizen input and acknowledges using surplus and reserves to balance a 1,861,301 deficit.
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S. Pannill Jones
Winchester
Council
James H. Fleming
Fleming
Finance Committee
Frederick County Board weighs late payment penalty and staggered terms
The Frederick County Board of Supervisors considers an ordinance imposing a 10 percent penalty on late real estate personal property machinery tools and merchants capital payments after a public hearing. It also reviews a resolution updating staggered term of service for board members to align with state code and ensure continuity.
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Frederick County Board of Supervisors
Board of Supervisors
Frederick
Commentary on Northern Ireland conflict and policing trends
The piece analyzes Britain's approach in Northern Ireland, aiming for a return to normal policing rather than victory. It notes reduced violence since peaks in 1972–73, lower murder rates compared with some European cities, and shrinking British troop numbers. It discusses knee capping and a 1973 IRA cease-fire, while warning that renewed tensions and intramural clashes persist.
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London
Northern Ireland
Britain
Belfast
Cleveland
Ohio
Ulster
Europe
I.R.A
Provos
Ulster miniwar tests intelligence and proxies in peace era
The piece notes rival guerrilla groups on Protestant and Catholic sides in Ulster and the use of proxy bombs and knee caps. It highlights the high influence of intelligence with about 90 men in British headquarters, achieving rapid car tracking in Belfast within seven and a half minutes.
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London
Ulster
I.R.A
Belfast
Portugal in transition a nation torn by renewal and doubt
Lisbon faces a split revolution as factions clash over governance and NATO ties while economy falters and emigration climbs. Leaders like Alvaro Cunhal shift stance toward cooperation amid street demonstrations and a widening exodus of capital and people.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Henry Cotton
France
United States
Angola
Alvaro Cunhal
Communist Party
Oriana Fallaci
Europe
NATO Alliance
U.S
Azores
Cunhal
Castro
Cuba
Military Council
Tagus River
Republica
Raul Rego
Lenin
Stalin
Che Guevara
Moscow
NATO
West
N.Y
Knowledge Check Quiz Questions on History and Language
Ten questions cover negotiable instruments Bulfinch Washington death causes Russian recognition under which president poet of Annabel Lee author Alaska counties or equivalents tandem bicycle three letter name for sweet potato Quantrill side Civil War guerrilla San Juan River origin in this country plus a long garbled answer key in a foreign script and mixed characters.
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Bulfinch
Washington
Russia
U.S
Annabel Lee
Alaska
O Sullivan Rubber Licensed to Produce Urelon Units
Genesco licensed O Sullivan Rubber Corp to manufacture pre formed units of Urelon Series 100 a new plastic material enabling both bottom and upper shoe parts to be formed as one unit The Frederick County Board of Supervisors approved a 1965 2 6 million county budget for the year ending June 30 1965
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O'Sullivan Rubber Corp
Genesco
Frederick County Board of Supervisors
Energy tax defeat shapes Congress energy bill outlook
Washington reports the effort to raise the gasoline tax 23 cents a gallon failed in the House and faces an uncertain Senate path. Democrats blame Ford for high prices while Long signals a slim chance for a broad energy bill. Common Cause decries the bill as inadequate and accuses lawmakers of capitulating to oil interests.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
House
Finance Committee
Russell Long
Louisiana
Ford
Long
Citizens
Ways and Means
al Ullman
Oregon
Common Cause
John Gardner
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