Dalton's Corollary Reignites State Budget Debate
Freshman Governor John N. Dalton touts cost cutting and a lean government while battling criticism over travel and media coverage. He highlights an $38 million savings and $80,000 in fishing certificates, but reports of his policies spark voter skepticism and press scrutiny.
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Letters to Star Editor Fools and Fakers
A columnist contemplates Jim Jones’s Guyana tragedy and the broader pattern of politicians and clergy leveraging fear. The piece contrasts Jones’s cult influence with political power, laments media manipulation, and notes American dependence on electricity and modern comforts.
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Ike
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Stupidity at Central Intelligence
President Carter criticized CIA quality in a Nov 11 note to Cy Vance Zbigniew Brzezinski and Stansfield Turner. The piece accuses Turner of misjudgments in Iran and Afghanistan and details security breaches, leaks, and calls for a new review board and independent experts to advise the president.
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Annapolis
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Soviet Union
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David Aaron
Richard Helms
Gang of Eleven
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
Bruce Palmer
William Leonhart
Wesley Posvar
University of Pittsburgh
Pentagon
Posvar
West Point
Rhodes
Oxford
Jimmy Carter
Mike O'Callaghan
Nevada
Michael Dukakis
Massachusetts
CIA FOI act spurs KGB concerns and calls for change
United States intelligence faces a wave of Freedom of Information Act requests that expose nonclassified material. Officials warn Kremlin operatives may exploit the act to pry secrets from the CIA. Debate grows on limiting FOIA to citizens and residents only.
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Field Enterprises Inc
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Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
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Rhodesian Civil War Looms After Majority Rule Delay
Salisbury dispatch analyzes how tribal rivalries and factional splits among black nationalists threaten a post election civil war in Rhodesia. Nkomo Mugabe Sithole factions vie for control, with Nkomo backed by the Soviet Union and Mugabe potentially allied with Muzorewa, amid security forces and regional dynamics shaping the outcome.
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Rhodesia
Soviet Union
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Zambia
Joshua Nkomo
Mozambique
Robert Mugabe
Ian Smith
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Smith
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Josiah Tongogara
Rex Nhongo
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Uganda
Roy E. Potts III
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