Green Up volunteers sweep Bennington County roads on statewide cleanup
Debbie Russo and Steve Rice help near Manchester landfill as John West leads volunteers on Green Up Day. More than 1,000 residents joined 80,000 Vermonters statewide cleaning 17,000 miles of roads. Governor Deane C. Davis toured sites while Robert Babcock Jr. projected $500,000 in highway savings. Salvatore Santarcangelo praised a total success with 400 Bennington volunteers clearing roads, aided by police and local officials.
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Bonaro
Debbie Russo
Steve Rice
Manchester
John West
North Shire
Bennington County
Bennington
Santarcangelo
Houghton Lane
Green Up
U.S. 7
Benn View
Laird warns ABM fight could push nuclear buildup
Defense Secretary Melvin Laird said Congress must approve expansion of the Safeguard ABM system or Washington may need to increase offensive nuclear forces. He stressed MIRV deployment and phased ABM protection, noting Congress already funded two ABM sites and faces a third, amid Soviet arms growth and U.S. force reductions.
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New York
UPI
Pentagon
Congress
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Laird
Associated Press
Vienna
BCIC Plans Meeting Over Ben-Mont Financial Trouble
The Bennington County Industrial Corp directors plan a meeting today or tomorrow to address the financial crisis facing Ben-Mont Inc. BCIC and company officials expect to discuss options and possible actions to assist Ben-Mont.
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Bennington County Industrial Corp
BCIC
Ben-Mont Inc
Senate Testimony Exposes U S Laos Involvement
Congressional testimony reveals that the U S ambassador in Vientiane directs a covert operation named project 404 and a Thailand based group trains Laotian troops. The secret program has run for four years with 106 personnel, raising Geneva accords concerns and prompting concealment by officials. The testimony underscores U S military proconsul like control in Laos amid controversial secrecy.
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Washington
UPI
U.S
Laos
Thailand
Vientiane
Senate Subcommittee
Nixon Administration
Quirements Organization
U.S. Agency For International Development
Administration
United States
Sen. J. William Fulbright
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Inside Views Question Rights in America
James Reston questions whether Americans truly want to give up the Bill of Rights. Vermont’s Bennington Flats records a third highest traffic count, while Manchester’s Green Up Day draws large crowds and participation across the community.
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James Reston
Bennington ‘‘Flats
Vermont
Vermont lawmakers approve sweeping environmental laws
Gov. Davis told the Legislature in January that Vermonters face a land rush and unchecked growth. The 1970 session produced nine major environmental bills creating the Environmental Conservation Agency, a land development control law, district commissions, and a state water pollution permit system.
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Montpelier
UPI
Vermont
Deane C. Davis
Arthur Gibb
R Weybridge
Governor’s
Environmental Control Commission
Gibb
Davis
Green Mountains
Fish and Game
Forest and Parks
Water Resources
Health Department
Environmental Conservation Agency
State Environmental Control Board
Green Up Rally in Brattleboro Attacks Nuclear Power
About 200 gathered on Brattleboro Common to denounce nuclear plants as the worst environmental insult. Speakers warned of radioactive discharges from reactors near Vernon, urged reconsidering electricity dependence, and questioned disaster plans and insurance limits.
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Green Up
Brattleboro
Brattleboro Common
Larry Bogart
Irving Lyon
Bennington College
Gerald James
Guilford
Vernon
Vermont Yankee
James
Bogart
AEC
John W. Gorman
Arthur R. Tamplin
Lyon
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Joe Pinsonneault
Jimmy Roy
Keith Rowe
Ben-Mont
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Ben- Mont
Leonard H. Epstein
Epstein
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