Springfield riots quieted after Puerto Rican clashes
About 400 riot suited officers moved in early today to quell unrest in Springfield North End following arson and vandalism. Ten arrests reported after youths threw rocks bottles and Molotov cocktails. Five injuries, one with a rock strike to the head, were documented as fires burned in a 12 block area amid retaliation for a police shooting of Jose Reyes.
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Springfield
Mass
UPI
North End
George Vancini
Jose Reyes
Paul J. Fenton
Fenton
Jose Berrato
Peron backs down replaces army commander in crisis
In Buenos Aires Isabel Peron yields to military pressure and appoints Gen. Jorge Videla to replace Lt. Gen. Alberto Laplane as army commander. The move aims to ease armed forces unrest but weakens her authority, following an eight hour crisis meeting at Olivos.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
UPI
Isabel Peron
Jorge Videla
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Alberto Laplane
Videla
Mrs. Peron
Damasco
Laplane
Peron
Olivos
Americans fear inflation after savings surge hints
Washington officials warn a consumer boom could rekindle inflation and derail recovery. Morton notes progress yet warns a long road ahead while Yeo cautions that unexpected changes in savings patterns could spur spending. Federal savings banks show a 340 percent savings surge year to date.
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Washington
UPI
Commerce
Rogers C. B. Morton
Treasury
Edwin Yeo
United States
Morton
Food firm profits outpace farmers since 1958, says AID
A UPI report from Washington cites Agriculture Department economist Terry Crawford and colleague Andrew Weiser noting corporate profits in food processing wholesaling and retailing rose 103 percent per unit since 1958 while farmer returns rose 90 percent and labor costs 89 percent. In 1974 pretax corporate profits reached 5.3 billion, 6 percent of total marketing costs and 3.5 cents of every consumer dollar.
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Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
Terry Crawford
Crawford
Andrew Weiser
Church says Ford blocks Nixon papers release on Chile
Senator Frank Church, head of the Senate intelligence committee, accuses President Ford of withholding Nixon administration documents about U.S. involvement in Chile while releasing Kennedy papers. The panel seeks material on the 1970 assassination of Chilean army chief Rene Schneider and U.S. policy toward Allende's election, with court-ordered custody held by White House counsel Philip Buchen and GSA chief Arthur Sampson.
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UPI
Frank Church
Senate Intelligence Committee
Ford
U.S
Chile
Senate Committee
White House
Philip Buchen
General Services Administration
Arthur Sampson
Church
Rene Schneider
Army
Schneider
Sed
Salvador Allende
Allende
Portugal Crisis deepens as Communists rally in Lisbon
Portugal's three military rulers met with armed forces chiefs after a 35000-strong Communist march in Lisbon supporting pro Communist Premier Vasco Goncalves. The leaders, split among themselves, eyed possible reshuffling while the Revolutionary Council weighed Goncalves’s fate amid ongoing calls for his ouster.
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Lisbon
Portugal
UPI
Vasco Goncalves
Franciso da Costa Gomes
Goncalves
Gomes
Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho
Revolutionary Council
Central Military Region
Franco Charais
Carvalho
Vasco Lourenzo
Popular Democrats
Vasco
Porto
Diario de Lisboa
Communist Party
Armed Forces
Assembly of the Armed Forces Movement
Bennington Banner: publication details and subscription rates
The Bennington Banner operates daily except Sundays and holidays from 425 Main St Bennington Vermont 05201. It is a subscriber to United Press International and the New York Times News Service with national advertising representation by Matthews Shannon and Cullen Inc. Home delivery costs 15 cents per day. Subscription rates are listed for Vermont within 50 miles and nationwide with 3 months to 1 year options. Second class postage paid at Bennington Vermont.
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Bennington Banner
Main St
Bennington
The
Banner Publishing Corp
United Press International
New York Times
Matthews, Shannon & Cullen, Inc
Vermont
U.S
Boycott remains after court ruling on grain shipments
United Press International reports AFL-CIO maritime unions persist with a boycott of American grain shipments to the Soviet Union despite U.S. District Judge Owen Cox ruling longshoremen’s political beliefs do not excuse nonwork. Cox ordered loading at West Gulf ports while Meany weighs next steps. U.S. officials seek settlement to avoid wider disruption while Russians press for higher rates.
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United Press International
Afl-Cio
Soviet Union
U.S
Owen Cox
Corpus Christi
Tex
Cox
5Th Circuit Court of Appeals
New Orleans
George Meany
Meany
West Gulf
Lake Charles
Brownsville
Ford
Russia
Washington
John Dunlop
Commerce Department
White House
Commerce
Car sales improve as August mid period rises notably
Detroit based UPI reports mid August car sales, Aug 11-20, rose 36 percent from early August and reached within 6 percent of last year as buyers rushed to beat price hikes. Four U.S. automakers said total 201,177 cars sold, lowest since 1971 but stronger than the first 10 days of the month, which hit a 14 year low.
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Detroit
UPI
U.S
Ford's Newport interview to air in New England
President Ford will sit for a taped New England News Conference to be televised across New England. The interview, taped at an undisclosed location, will air at 7:30 p.m. Saturday before his 6:30 p.m. fundraising speech at the John Slocum residence on Bellevue Avenue in Newport. He previously spoke in Maine.
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Ford
Newport
New England
R.I
UPI
Wjar-Tv
Arthur Alpert
Providence
White House
John Slocum
Bellevue Avenue
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