Adams hold up charges dropped in district court
Two men Donald Mears Jr and Florian Mayer had armed robbery charges dropped at Benn ington District Court after five eye witnesses could not identify them from 13 photographs. State's Attorney Neil Moss cited lack of identification and corroborating lie detector tests as reasons to drop the case. no charges against the affidavit originator are expected.
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Adams
Bennington District Court
Neil 5. Moss
Donald Mears Jr
Bennington
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Cipal
Moss
Mears and Mayer
Pers
Apollo 17 astronauts homeward bound after flawless finale
Apollo 17 crew Eugene Cernan Ronald Evans and Jack Schmitt depart USS Ticonderoga tonight on a 6300 mile return to Houston area, with stops in Samoa Norton AFB California and a Willington AFB near Houston. They completed a 12 astronaut lunar program journey totaling 18 million miles over 104 days.
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Eugene A. Cernan
Ronald Evans
Jack Schmitt
Arrie
Willington Air Force Base
Houston
Space Center
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Wee ‘Ee
Apollo
Haydon
Samoa
Cernan
Evans
Jan
Barbara Cernan
Schmitt
Tucson
Ariz
Pacific
Lunar
CBS
Ron Evans
Gene Cernan
Ticonderoga
Heroin Smuggling via Deceased Soldiers Bodies Revealed
UPI reports vast quantities of heroin worth hundreds of millions of dollars were sewn into the bodies and coffins of slain Vietnam soldiers. Officials say an ex-GI cell infiltrated preparations centers and shipped the heroin in airtight bags inside autopsied bodies en route home. Honolulu may have been a key point for removing the narcotics from caskets.
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UPI
U.S
Vietnam
United States
Hawaii
Hickam Air Force Base
Baltimore
Thomas EB. Sutherland
Newsman jailed for contempt over interview tapes
John F. Lawrence, Washington bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times, was jailed three hours for refusing to hand over interview tapes to the U S District Court. He was released on appeal and the judge ordered the tapes produced or Lawrence to purge contempt. The case raises First Amendment press freedom questions amid a federal probe into Democratic National Committee burglary.
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UPI
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Los Angeles Times
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the Times
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Dcallf
Sirica
Supreme Court
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Fokors
Sigma Delta Chi
SDX
Lawrence
Richard M. Schmidter
ASNE
Eisenhower
Times
Justice Department
The
Sirfen
Wounded at Kennedy as man resists search and fires
At Kennedy Airport a bearded man carrying a guitar and attache case triggered a metal detector. He grabbed a federal security guard's gun and fired at least six shots, wounding two agents. The suspect, Robert J. Dobbelaer, 25, of Valley Cottage, N.Y., was arrested on a runway by Port Authority officers. The wounded officers, Gerald McCarthy, 41, and Anthony Petrucci Jr., 34, were in satisfactory condition. The case contained the metal binding of a notebook. Dobbelaer was taken to U.S. District Court in Brooklyn.
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UPI
Kennedy Airport
Robert J. Dobbelaer
Valley Cottage
N.Y
Pan American ‘World Airways
Port Authority
Sky Marshals
Gerald McCarthy
Commack
Anthony Petrucci, Jr
Bloomfield
N.J
Pan Am
Barbados
San Juan
Customs
McCarthy
Petrucci
Pan Ams
Bob Gough
Dobbelaer
U.S. District Court
Brooklyn
Delays Hit Bennington Elderly Housing Project
Vermont Housing Authority Chair Hamilton Shields told Selectmen the Bennington project is facing months of delay due to problems centered on the contractor and the state fire marshal. A fire marshal sprinkler requirement and contract-signing deadlines threaten higher costs, while Willow Road low-income housing moves forward on schedule.
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Vermont Fire Marshal
Bennington
Housing Authority
Hamilton Shields
Selectmen
Shields
South Street
Willow Road
Schedue
New England
Manchester police merger hinted at secret sessions
Manchester selectmen held two secret sessions Tuesday night after the shooting death of town Police Chief Dana L. Thompson. A proposal to consolidate town and village police forces was discussed as a possibility, with Porter noting a precedent after fire department consolidation. Village President Smalley and Police Commissioner Rockwell joined the sessions, but no decision was made.
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Charles Bonents
Manchester
Dana L. Thompson
Francis Smalley
Richard B. Rockwell
Oakley K. Porter
Porter
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Smalley
Hoag
Eugene Gelotti
Fred Wessner
James Webb
Frank Dupree
Wessner
Webb
Inside Washington reshuffle and memory notes page two
A collection of column notes spans Washington politics, a Bennington recall, poetic tree references and reminiscences. It links government credibility, winter sounds, and past sports drama as a broad snapshot of current and nostalgic topics across pages two to twelve.
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Washington
Bad Willams
Anthony Lewis
John Page
Flood Brook
Manchester Recreation
John Eee
Bulldogs
Eagles
Hoosiers
St. Inn
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