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...years as a Ranger in I Corps. "I have mixed feelings about it all," says Corkan. He does not have nightmares anymore, but sometimes in the deep of night, he blurts out in his sleep, "Who's on guard?" Sitting in the George N. Meredith V.F.W. Post 924 in Anniston, Ala., Corkan says slowly, "I don't know. Viet Nam just stays on your mind...
Doonesbury has a history of acerbity. But some clients find Trudeau more combative than ever. Newspapers, including the generally liberal St. Petersburg Times (circ. 300,000) and Anniston (Ala.) Star (circ. 31,000), have bumped panels on grounds of fairness or taste; at least four others have canceled outright. Said Bob Peterson, editorial-page editor of California's Chico Enterprise-Record (circ. 27,000), which dropped Doonesbury after touting its return: "It got progressively more biased. Trudeau is using a comic strip for a personal political soapbox." Still, the strip appears in 823 papers, its alltime high. Says Executive...
...duty that quiet Friday night in the newsroom of WHMA-TV, Channel 40, the only TV station in Anniston, Ala. (pop. 29,500), were a woman office worker and Photographer Ronald Simmons, 30, and Sound Technician Gary Harris, 18. Both men had been up since early morning covering a high school basketball tournament...
...Government's indictment against Smalley, the Englishman conspired to ship 100 vintage 50-ton tanks to Iran by using phony "end user's certificates," which gave the United Arab Emirates as the delivery site. He allegedly planned to buy the tanks from an Army depot in Anniston, Ala. He is also charged with conspiring to ship 8,300 antitank missiles to Iraq...
...Among other things, the law will be forcing many more taxpayers than ever to learn the distinction between a deduction and a tax credit (a deduction is subtracted from the income subject to tax: a credit is subtracted directly from the amount of tax owed). Says Johnny Carpenter, an Anniston. Ala., laborer: "I did all right until I tried to figure my earned income credit. I didn't even know what that was.* I read the instructions, which said to turn to another page for further instructions. When I turned and read it, it said to turn back...