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MILTON — A Republican lawmaker and a school superintendent are still arguing over whether it was appropriate for the Milton district to host Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell’s Sunday morning press conference a month ago. The dispute between state Sen. John Gordner and Superintendent William A. Clark came to light Tuesday night during a work session of the Milton school board, when Clark said he and the politician had a 12-minute conversation that ended with neither giving ground. Contacted Wednesday, Gordner said Rendell’s visit to Milton was purely political in nature. The state senator said Rendell has been visiting schools in...

Abstract: Moviegoers enjoying the critically acclaimed "Charlie Wilson's War" — starring Tom Hanks as a freewheeling congressman who helped secure funding for anti-Soviet fighters in Afghanistan in the 1980s — might be missing out on the story of a man who played an even more important role in winning the Cold War - William P. Clark Jr., a lifelong Republican. One of President Reagan's closest confidants, Mr. Clark spent 22 months as national security adviser, a period marked by the completion of more than 100 national security decision directives (NSDDs) spelling out the policies by which the "Evil Empire" of...

The foundation marked Gormley’s achievement with a donation of books — seven volumes of the journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition — to the Tomlinson Library at Mesa State College. The journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark... were edited by Gary Moulton and published by the University of Nebraska Press. They are known among today’s historians as the best and most current version of the duo’s journey through the American West. Mesa State College Library Director Elizabeth Brodak said the fact that the books are forms of primary source material... “Anyone who wishes to get that flavor for...

OP-ED CONTRIBUTORFor Reagan, All Life Was SacredBy WILLIAM P. CLARKPublished: June 11, 2004 Ronald Reagan had not passed from this life for 48 hours before proponents of human embryonic stem-cell research began to suggest that such ethically questionable scientific work should be promoted under his name. But this cannot honestly be done without ignoring President Reagan's own words and actions. Ronald Reagan's record reveals that no issue was of greater importance to him than the dignity and sanctity of all human life. "My administration is dedicated to the preservation of America as a free land," he said in 1983. "And...

Let Bush Be Bush By Michael A. Ledeen Posted: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 ARTICLES New York Sun   Publication Date: December 17, 2003 As the Reagan years pass further back into time, both his enemies and his admirers are straining mightily to write the history the way they want it to have happened. In the process, those eight years are taking on almost mythical characteristics. The 'phobes see an ideologically driven administration almost psychotically obsessed with defeating communism; the 'philes see a simpatico human being who understood America perfectly and used American strengths to bring down the Soviet empire. It...

Man incompetent to stand, trial in impersonation at I-40 Bridge Collapse (My Title) By Donna Hales Phoenix Staff Writer A man arrested for posing as an Army officer and taking control of riverfront operations after the May 26 collapse of the In terstate 40 bridge near Webbers Falls is not competent to stand trial, according to sealed federal medical reports. William J. "Billy" Clark was ordered back to a federal medical facility for psychiatric treatment Tuesday during what was to have been his competency hearing in Muskogee federal court before U.S. District Judge James H. Payne. "He thinks he's Capt....

Muskogee - An alleged imposter in the Webbers Falls I-40 bridge collapse is back in Muskogee. William Clark made his first appearance in federal court Monday. It looks like Clark will undergo intense psychiatric tests. In part, because the government wants to know if he was sane when he allegedly showed up in Webbers Falls, telling everyone he was in charge. Under tight security, the 29-year-old was brought into federal court. Clark is charged with impersonating a U.S. Army office on May 26th and 27th after the Interstate 40 bridge collapse. According to court documents, Clark told authorities he was...

U.S. fugitive was hitting on local women 'He probably thought ... we wouldn't notice, but we noticed' OWEN SOUND, Ont. -- A man wanted by the FBI for impersonating a U.S. special forces captain at a fatal interstate bridge collapse in Oklahoma strutted around the small Georgian Bay community of Tobermory for three days before his arrest this weekend, says the woman who turned him in to provincial police. Carla Watson, who telephoned police early Sunday to tell them about the fugitive's whereabouts, said yesterday that William Clark may have been on the run, but he was certainly not...