Snelling eyes crime control and energy policy plans
Gov elect Richard Snelling, at a Montpelier briefing, urged scrutiny of parole and corrections costs, arguing rehabilitation spending hasn’t cut crime. He backed a younger public safety chief, weighed NE energy lobbying, and indicated openness to Salmon for federal energy post if a regional mind is chosen.
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Corrections
R. Kent Stoneman
Snelling
Edward Corcoran
Washington
Land-use tax deemed unnecessary for open space
Vermont's Forest Taxation Study Committee reports open space is not well protected by land use taxes and that high property taxes play only a minor role in forest landowners' decisions. The group urges financing changes for education to relieve tax pressure, and notes land sales can benefit sellers buyers and communities.
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Salmon
Vermont
Bennington
Philip Stern
Washington, D.C
Wright
Pownal
Waldheim seeks PLO role in Geneva talks
Secretary General Kurt Waldheim, reelected, aims to reconvene the Geneva peace conference within months with a possible compromise to include the Palestinian Liberation Organization. He noted growing broad interest in progress while acknowledging U.S. and Israeli hesitation on formal PLO participation.
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Peter Grose
N.Y. Times
United Nations
Kurt Waldheim
Geneva
Palestine Liberation Organization
Waldheim
Soviet Union
PLO
Israel
United States
General Assembly
Northeast governors seek energy aid as Carter meets
Optimistic Northeast governors led by Gov Hugh Carey meet President Carter hoping for federal help after arguing the region has been shortchanged by prior administrations. The group includes Grasso Salmon Byrne Dukakis Noel and Shapp, seeking energy development, welfare aid, and regional tax changes.
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Washington
UPI
Jimmy Carter
Carter
Hugh Carey
New York
Southwest
West Coast
Thomas Salmon
Vermont
Brendan Byrne
New Jersey
Michael Dukakis
Massachusetts
Philip Noel
Rhode Island
Milton Shapp
Pennsylvania
Saratoga Springs
N.Y
Saratoga
Carey
Meldrim Thomson
New Hampshire
James Longley
Maine
Longley
Richard Snelling
Salmon
NATO pledge to sustain NATO ties in Carter era
Secretary of State Kissinger praised Carter's pledge to sustain and strengthen the NATO alliance while rejecting Moscow’s calls for a mutual freeze and a ban on first use of nuclear weapons. He warned Brezhnev proposals risk isolating Spain and shaping a Western security edge. Carter's message reaffirmed alliance centrality and shared defense goals.
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Brussels
Belgium
UPI
Henry A. Kissinger
Jimmy Carter
U.S
NATO
Kissinger
Carter
North America
Europe
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Bucharest
Warsaw Pact
Spain
Lee NATO
Beech Street Parents Review Four BSD Options
About 75 Beech Street School parents gathered for a BSD board session weighing four plans to improve the Beech Street site or relocate students. Proposals include adding classrooms and facilities at Beech Street with costs around 430 495 thousand dollars, or closing Beech Street and moving students to the Catamount complex at an estimated 56 thousand dollars plus potential land costs for a playground.
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BSD Board
Beech Street
Bennington
Beech Street School
Catamount
Richard Diamond
Supt
George A. Sleeman
BSD Boal
Sleeman
Diamond
Inside Local Christmas events and museum notes
Special Christmas events at the museum and Park-McCullough House are highlighted with page references. Kit Foster discusses chemical properties of lead and water on page four. County notes cover unemployment claims in Vermont, BBS honor society induction, Falls group FHA senior housing bid, and CETA worker employment aims. Sports items question baseball greed, Arlington IVs defeat MAU, McAdoo Braves future, Canadiens vs Black Hawks. SmokeyCB spying lore on page 16.
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Arlington IV
Mau
McAdoo
Braves
Canadiens
Black Hawks
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