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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1977
Page
2
President Carter asserts the United States will protect its interests and maintain strategic equality or superiority in SALT negotiations with the Soviet Union. He says negotiators have made progress and shown firmness, insisting the U S cannot be pushed around.
Denis Hayes of Worldwatch Institute says underdeveloped regions in Africa, Latin America, and Asia could leap to solar power as oil prices rise, coal reserves shrink, and nuclear options stay out of reach. Limited capital and fuel reserves hinder their ability to repeat industrialized world oil commitments.
A year-long Pentagon study finds women could comprise up to 35 percent of total military strength without reducing unit effectiveness. The analysis, based on three-day field exercises, shows women accounting for 5 to 35 percent of support units while missions were carried out.
Authorities in Thailand reported at least 30 dead and nearly 100 injured after a Government Transport Company bus and a tour bus collided head on near Kampaeng Phet while many travelers were on a three day Constitution Day weekend.
Senator Alan Cranston of California urged preserving the B-1 bomber program at least into next year to study the administration plan for a penetrating bomber force. The Senate planned a Thursday vote on a supplemental appropriations bill with an amendment to cancel 462 million dollars for two additional B-1 aircraft, after the House rejected the cancelation 191 to 166 last week.
In early returns from London districts Edmonton Battersea Enfield Tottenham and Walthamstow firefighters rejected a immediate 10 percent rise and two later increases raising pay from 118 to 180 by 1979 while Leicestershire and Bury groups signaled tentative acceptance. Weekend blazes closed bus depots causing 1.8 million in damage and two elderly men died in fires as 79 fire deaths were recorded since the November 14 walkout.
Farmers vow a broad national strike with aims for 100 percent crop parity. Mondale expressed concern and offered to take the farmers demands to the president as water soaked notes from weekend planning were shown. Tractors and convoys moved through state capitals to show support for the protest set to begin Wednesday.
Two Soviet cosmonauts aboard Soyuz 26 linked with the Salyut 6 space station then eyed a second docking. Grechko checked a faulty device as Tass said the dual docking capability expands future flights and crew changes. Shatalov urged calm as work aims to finish by year end, while in Washington farmers protested.
United Mine Workers members press to close non union soft coal mines across 22 states as 188000 workers strike. Talks with Bituminous Coal Operators Association set in Washington to renew a three year pact. Weekend rallies in Kentucky Ohio and West Virginia plan action while Utah moves restrict operations to daylight under court order.
Cairo police reported David Holden, 53, chief foreign correspondent for Britain's Sunday Times, was found shot in the desert fringe near Nasr City. Identification delayed, police cite no clear political motive though Al Ahram notes possible robbery or taxi-driver crime. Only 12 piasters were found on him as motive evidence.
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