County boards settle on sites for new high school
The Frederick County Board of Supervisors and the County School Board reached a compromise on the new high school project. They scrapped a plan to relocate and will reevaluate to fit funding limits. The School Board received about $800,000 of $1.1 million requested, with a goal to trim construction to $8.3 million.
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Frederick County Board of Supervisors
County School Board
Kenneth Stiles
Board of Supervisors
Melton Wright
Board Finance Committee
Thomas Rosenberger
S. Roger Koontz
James Wood High School
Apple Pie Ridge
Readers Send Thanks For Quick Police Response
Letters praise the Winchester police for alertness after a store door was left unsecure. A second letter discusses neighbors in Frederick County and a dog ordinance, arguing pet ownership obligations and neighborly responsibility. A third notes a dog shooting incident and recalls a prior dog theft, expressing strong views on pet protection.
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the Star
Indian Alley
Old Parallels for a Young Senate
The piece argues the 1979 Senate faces defense of the Middle East and nuclear arms talks with the Soviet Union, drawing lessons from 1919 1920 when the Senate debated the League of Nations. It notes similarities and cautions about partisanship and domestic pressures shaping international decisions.
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New York Times
Washington
Senate of the
United States
Middle East
Soviet Union
Senate
U.S
League of Nations
Henry Cabot Lodge
Janary
Germany
David Lloyd George
Wilson
Carter
Europe
Georges Clemenceau
Clemenceau
Versailles
Paris
Samuel Eliot Morrison
Henry Steele Commager
League
America
Woodrow Wilson
Justice Department
Bert Lance
Warren Harding
U.S. Senate
Betrayal of Kurds: Barzani and US policy in the 1970s
Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish leader, recounts his alliance with the United States and the Shah of Iran, which collapsed in 1975 as Iraq moved against the Kurds. He laments U.S. abstentions and Kissinger era policy, and dies at 75 amid calls for Kurdish autonomy.
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New York Times
Washington
Mustapha Barzani
Virginia
Kurdistan
Iraq
Iran
Turkey
Syria
Russia
Mullah
Mustapha
Barzani
Israel
Nixon
U.S
Tehran
Moscow
Kissinger
Treasury
John Connally
Shah
CIA
Henry Kissinger
William Colby
Israal
United States
OPEC
Ford Administration
Mideast
Alfred Leroy Atherton
Harold Saunders
Carter
U.N
Atherton
Saunders
White House
U.S. State Department
Pes Merga
Carter Waives Congressional Arms Control Over Yemen War
President Carter orders an immediate airlift of U S arms to North Yemen to counter a Soviet driven offensive backed by South Yemen. The move bypasses standard congressional approval, signaling hard line policy amid Moscow backed regional upheaval.
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Field Enterprises Inc
Washington
South Yemen
North Yemen
Carter
U.S
U. S
Frank Church
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Moscow
Lelio
Taa R
Aéstone
Pentagon
United States
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Winchester Evening Star
The
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Sandi
Bob Macmahan
Grandpa Groovy
Indian Alley Winchester
Dog Story
Ruffin
Evening Star
Frederick County
Frances Cummings
Ridge Rd
Winchester
Sheriff Mauck
Lenwood Nichols
Stephens City
By James Reston
United States Senate
Wsca
By William Safire
By Rowland Evans
Robert Novak
Massachusetts
Kennedy
Teddy
Jack Kemp
New York
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
Kemp
John Sears
Los Angeles
Walter F. Mondale
Mondale
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