Ripon Society urges Nixon to end all aid to Pakistan
The Ripon Society calls on President Nixon to withdraw all military and economic aid to Pakistan to halt the civil war in East Pakistan. The liberal Republican group argues U.S. arms aid sustains a reign of terror and urges stopping October 1970 arms deliveries, cutting economic aid, and pressuring for democratic governance.
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Ripon Society
Nixon
Pakistan
Cambridge, Mass
UPI
East Pakistan
GOP
Society
India
United States
West Pakistan
West Pak
Istan
Constituent Assembly
Yahya Kahn
Awami League
Columbia University reactor permit denied by AEC board
The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board rejected Columbia University’s request to operate a small nuclear reactor on Morningside Heights. After seven years of legal wrangling with local citizens’ groups, the ruling marked the first time the board refused an operating license for any reactor in the United States. Nearly 100 small research reactors are affected among similar cases nationwide.
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Washington
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board
Columbia University
Morningside Heights
Columbia
United States
AEC
Atomic Energy Commission
National Science Foundation
Valentine B. Deale
Hood Worthington
Wilmington, del
Eugene Grueling
Duke University
Durham, N.C
Vermont
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp
Vernon
Brattleboro Union High School
AEC Licensing Board
The
Science Foundation
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Morningside Renewal Council, Inc
Riverside Democrats, Inc
Mary Hays Weik
Manhattan
New York City
Safety Board
U.S. Customs Court
New York University
Bronx
Gulf General Atomic Corp
la Jolla
Calif
Kennedy urges health industry reform to curb hospital costs
Senator Edward M. Kennedy argues that healthy Americans must help cover medical bills to prevent hospital costs from rising beyond typical pockets. He calls the health industry America’s fastest growing failing business as hearings on rising medical costs conclude with mayors Tate Lindsay and D’Alesandro highlighting hospital bankruptcies and pricey Blue Cross contracts. He advocates a progressive federal health plan spreading costs to both sick and healthy.
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Washington
UPI
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
America
Kennedy
Big City
James H.J. Tate
Philadelphia
John V. Lindsay
New York
Thomas J. D’alesandro III
Baltimore
Tate
Blue Cross
Government to issue tougher bumper standards next week
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will issue a rule to raise bumper impact standards aimed at cutting repair costs. The tougher rules may take effect August 1 1972, with a possible one month delay to finish 1972 model production.
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Washington
UPI
Auto Safety Agency
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Insurance Institute For Highway Safety
Commerce Subcommittee
Vermont oil spill worsens as fault finding stalls
In Montpelier the Water Resources Department said pinpointing blame for Vermonts latest diesel spill is difficult after fuel was pumped into a faulty Newport storage tank at Citizens Utilities and leaked into the Clyde River. The tank was leased to a local distributor not named publicly. The attorney general weighs possible anti pollution charges while clean up continues at Newport, with earlier leaks in Winooski River and Otter Creek under review.
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Citizens
State Attorney General
Newport
Winooski River
Chittenden
Otter Creek
Rutland County
Hemco seeks Vermont Supreme Court dam case reversal
Attorneys for Hemco Corp filed briefs with the state Supreme Court challenging the Water Resources Board ruling that denied Hemco's permit to build a dam creating a 22 acre lake at a Waitsfield vacation subdivision. The firm argues the hearings failed to prove ecological harm or public interest detriment.
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Montpelier
API
Vermont
State Supreme Court
Water Resources Board
Mad River
Theriault and Joslin
Hemco Corp
Waitsfield
High Court
Hemco
Pavilion tax feud begins in Montpelier dispute
Montpelier officials plan to bill San Remo Realty Co. of South Burlington for 80 000 to 110 000 in taxes on the Pavilion Office Building beside the Capitol complex. William Hayden says San Remo listed as owner of record for the April 1 tax rolls and will be billed. The 1969 lease agreement makes the state liable for taxes, and Hayden expects a challenge.
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San Remo
Hayden
Troy Police Captain Arraigned On Extortion Counts
Troy police captain and former public safety commissioner Albert F Prezio was arraigned in Rensselaer County Court on three counts of extortion tied to local bookmaking. Prezio pleaded innocent as city officials weighed his status, while a bail hearing looms for two ironworkers in Albany on assault and property charges.
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Troy
Albert F. Prezio
Public Safety
Rensselaer
Prezio
Brunswick State Police
Ralph DeSantis
DeSantis
Albany
Central Ave
Wendel C. Habert
Sherman St
Robert White
Frank Woods
Haber
White
Utility study rejects Shenob Brook site for power plant
Northeast Utilities officials say eliminating Shenob Brook in Sheffield as a 33.8 million kilowatt station site, costing 273.3 million, does not imply a plant at Canaan Mountain. The year long first phase report finds Shenob Brook would cause greater environmental impact. both sites face environmental and recreational concerns. In North Adams, possible city hall site at Hunter Machine Co. building eyed with Worcester firm Crompton & Knowles ready to donate. cost projected at about 500000 under two mayoral plans. Also in North Adams, workers at General Cable Corp. vote April 30 on union representation between IUE and an independent wire workers union.
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Sheffield
Northeast Utilities
Shenob Brook
Canaan Mountain
Connecticut
North Adams
Hunter Machine Co
West Main
State Streets
Crompton & Knowles, Inc
Worcester
Hunter
Joseph R. Bianco
General Cable Corp
International Union of Electrical Workers
Wire Workers
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Nichols
Richard D. Lyons
N.Y
Ted
Dunham. Furniture Inc
Bennington, Vermont
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the Easter Bunny
Northside Drive
Bennington
McNeillys Greenhouse
Knapp’s Pet Shop
Carroll
Adams Drug Store
Burlington
UPS
Vermont Social Welfare Department
Vermont Legal Aid
Vergennes
U.S. Circuit
Sterry R. Waterman
Bernard J. Leddy
James L. Oakes
Welfare Department
U.S. Supreme Court
York
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Berkshire
New North Adams City Hall
Cable Workers
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