Officials Probe Mass Fish Die-Off in South Stream
Vermont Fish and Game and local authorities investigate a surge of dead fish along South Stream Waterfowl Refuge. Warden Norman Brown and Frank Snow, with District 1 biologist Richard Biggins, consider winter kill or oxygen depletion from ice cover, while noting sewage pollution from nearby homes. Dozens of large bass and many sunfish have washed ashore in the past two weeks.
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Vermont Fish and Game
South Stream
Bennington
Norman Brown
Frank Snow
State
District 1
Richard Biggins
Brattleboro
Bennington Line
Pownal
Winterkill
Paris Peace Talks Open With Major US South Vietnam Concessions
At the Paris peace talks the United States and South Vietnam offered three major concessions to the Communists, signaling readiness to discuss political and military issues in tandem. Saigon dropped demands that Viet Cong disavow communism for political participation, and mutual troop withdrawal emerged as a key issue. North Vietnam criticized proposals to strengthen the South Vietnamese army as prolonging the war.
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UPI
United States
South Vietnam
Henry Cabot Lodge
U.S
Lodge
Dmz
North
Saigon
Pham Dang Lam
Lam
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Nixon asks Congress to boost postal rates landmark request
President Nixon urged Congress to raise first class letters to seven cents and post cards to six, with second and third class mail increases to cut the 1970 postal deficit. He warned the alternative would cost taxpayers and urged long term reforms to end the deficit cycle.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Congress
Price Increases Highlight Postage History
Washington report traces the rising mail costs from 2 cents in 1919 to 8 cents in later years, noting proposed across the board increases. The article also cites the post office trimming its 1970 budget by 140 million against a 7.5 billion deficit, with President urging rate hikes to share costs.
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Post Office
Nixon
Congress
Administration Eyes National Sales Tax
The Nixon administration studies a value-added tax as a national sales tax to replace part of the corporate income tax. Treasury weighs VAT as a second-stage overhaul proposal. Not expected before next year after Congress completes current tax reform efforts.
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API
Nixon
Congress
The
Treasury
Walker
Heat from atomic plants eyed for city cooling and farming
Nuclear consultant Dr James H Wright spoke at the Governor's Conference on Nuclear Power about using plant heat to warm cities and grow sea crops. He rejected fears of a China syndrome and urged regional power development to ease siting.
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N.H
UPI
James H. Wright
Wright
Westinghouse Electric Co
China
R. Frank Gregg
New England River Basins Commission
Gregg
Peter Shapiro
New Hampshire
Vernon, Vt
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp
Vermont
Shapiro
House
Harlan D. Logan
R-Plainfield
Warren Saluted At Farewell Party
Nixon saluted Earl Warren as a friend of justice at a black tie farewell dinner with a glittering guest list. Warren declared he left with no malice as he retires in June and many guests praised his half century of public service. Attendees included Abe Fortas Edmund Brown and William Rogers while possible successors were teased by the president and others.
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UPI
Nixon
Earl Warren
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Warren
White House
The
United States
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Fortas
Johnson
Senate
Edmund ‘Pat’ Brown
California
Brown
William P. Rogers
William O. Douglas
Cathie
High Bench
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Harry Truman
Metropolitan Opera
Mildred Miller
Cornell Faculty Capitulates To Militant Demands
Cornell faculty reversed a Monday decision to punish five Afro-American students after armed protests and a Willard Straight Hall seizure. President Perkins hailed the reversal as easing the danger of armed clashes, while a minority decried it as capitulation amid campus tensions and calls to expunge the incident from university records.
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Ithaca
N.Y
James A. Perkins
Government Department
Clinton Rossiter
John L
Barton Hall
Perkins
Dr. Perkins
Robert D. Miller
Willard Straight Hall
Dean Miller
Bennington Draft Board Letter Inside Page Four
Inside column features a member of the Bennington draft board writing a letter to the editor on page four. The piece offers perspectives on local draft policy and community impact as seen by a board member. The tone mirrors a civic readership segment with concise opinion framing.
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Bennington
Cost of Living Jump Surges in March
The Labor Department reports March prices rose eight tenths of a percent, the largest monthly increase since February 1951. The $12.56 market basket now costs far more than a decade ago, led by higher spend on food clothing gasoline home ownership and used cars.
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UPI
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Asst. Treasury
Edwin S. Cohen
Doug Paddock
Steven Rice
Mt. Anthony Union High School
Roy Clark
University of Vermont
UVM
New York Times News Service
Manchester
State Board of Education
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