Health board asked 50 questions on Vermont Yankee safety
Brattleboro and Bennington residents attend public hearings as Dr. Irving Lyon, Bennington College biologist and opponent, presents 50 questions about alleged plant safety. The board aims to set stricter radioactive emission standards and implement them by December 20, with Vermont Yankee agreeing to comply. The session features testimony from AEC, various environmental groups, and two Columbia University experts, amid calls for the lowest achievable release of radioactivity and safeguards against meltdown.
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Brattleboro
Irving Lyon
Bennington College
Vermont Yankee
Vermont Board of Health Today
Health Board
Lyon
Committee For Survival
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Southern Vermont Conservation Society
Vermont Environmental Conservation Agency
Bennington-based
Committee On Survival
Lake Champlain Committee
Ity
Minnesota
Northern States Power Co
Lake Champlain
New York
Peter S. Paine
Vermont
William Cowles
Shelburne
State Environmental Control Board
Columbia, University
Connecticut River
Eagle Square tax plan outlined for Shaftsbury workers
Details of a 33 percent valuation based tax package to be proposed to voters at a Dec 29 town meeting were released to employees. Eagle Square Mfg Co plans major expansion next year, 3.5 million in new plant and 130 jobs, contingent on state appraiser corrections to Shaftsbury valuations. The plan shifts tax burden via five steps, aims to freeze Grand List at about 1.63 million, and includes Miller formula compensation and machinery tax provisions.
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Shaftsbury
Eagle Square Mfg. Co
Eagle Square
Paul J. DeConinck
Double Eagle
Benjamin Reid
New Britain
Conn
Vermont
Nixon says UAW GM pact fuels inflation risk
The Nixon administration labeled the UAW GM settlement inflationary and warned higher wages with rising auto prices could push Americans toward foreign cars. The White House backed a 7 percent wage rise average, urging voluntary restraint to curb inflation amid slack in the economy and 5.6 percent unemployment.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
United Auto Workers
General Motors
President’s Council of Economic Advisers
White House
UAW
Vt college heads gloomy but students see light
University of Vermont president Dr Edward C Andrews Jr warned that private college financial strain is pressuring state universities amid an educational recession. He cited inflation, taxes, unemployment, and campus unrest fueling public concern while expressing optimism education will endure due to broad support for learning.
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Vt. College
David Scribner
Edward C. Andrews Jr
University of Vermont
UVM
Andrews
New England University
State College
Edward C. Andrews
Bennington
Harold Abel
Castleton State College
Inside The Mankiewicz Braden POW Raid Analysis
The column weighs the recent POW raid and its implications. It notes editorial views that Madison Avenue’s hard sell is challenged by a younger generation, reflecting concerns about media influence and persuasion. Also mentions educational television usage at Hoosick Falls Central School as a broad trend.
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Madison Avenue
Hoosick Falls Central School
Nixon demands why sailor was refused asylum
President Nixon orders the Coast Guard to explain within 48 hours why a Lithuanian sailor seeking asylum was handed back to the Soviets after attempting to defect off Martha's Vineyard. The White House calls the affair poorly handled and demands full reports from the Coast Guard, State, and Transportation departments.
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Nixon
Sailor
Washington
UPI
Coast Guard
White House
State Department
Transportation Department
Sadat demands withdrawal timetable to extend cease-fire
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat told frontline troops the cease-fire can only be extended if Israel agrees to a withdrawal timetable from occupied lands. He warned against delays and signaled a battle of destiny once the truce ends, as Jarring talks loomed. King Hussein of Jordan planned a regional trip seeking Western support and a Palestinian summit, with stops in Cairo and the United States to meet Nixon.
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Anwar Sadat
Middle East
Israel
Sadat
Suez Canal
U.N
Gunnar V. Jarring
Jarring
Amman
Hussein
Five
Palestine
Cairo
United States
Nixon
Hunters' buck stolen from Deer Park at Vermont Soldiers' Home
Brig. Gen. Edward H. Giles reports the loss of a 100 pound lone buck from Deer Park at the Vermont Soldiers' Home. It was moved there by arrangement with Fish and Game and had distinctive spikehorn antlers. The theft occurred between Friday and Monday after rocks were dug away to drag the deer under the fence. The three park does were unharmed. The incident follows the close of Vermont's 16 day deer hunting season.
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Vermont
Edward H. Giles
Norman Brown
Fish and Game
Edward Kehoe
Giles
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Swayze
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Mary Beth Thompson
Debby Niles
Kim Higgins
Maureen Moore
Memorial Park
Mankiewicz-Braden
Adm
Chester Bender
Bender
U.S
Martha’s Vineyard
Vigilant
North Atlantic
Robert J. McCloskey
McCloskey
Egypt
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