Vermont grand jury to consider Manchester chief murder case
A Bennington County Grand Jury will be convened to weigh charges in the December 12 shooting death of Manchester Police Chief Dana Thompson. Defendants Edward Battick and Brian O’Keefe face capital offenses. Battick is hospitalized, while O’Keefe is in Windsor State Prison. The process reflects Vermont’s rare use of grand juries in capital cases, with proceedings kept secret and heavily constrained.
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John Leaning
Vermont
Bennington County
Manchester
Dana Thompson
Edward M. Baitick
Whipple
Battick
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Moss
Grand Jury
Bomb raids on Hanoi mark heaviest indochina air war
UPI reports more than 1,000 U.S. jet fighters and 147 waves of B52 bombers struck North Vietnam December 18 to Christmas Day. Hanoi cites widespread destruction and tens of thousands flee. B52s dropped up to 13,230 tons. 1,000 fighters about 6,000 tons. Casualty counts rise with 58 missing and 61 claimed by Hanoi. Targets included power plants, rail yards, shipyards, and air defense sites near Hanoi Haiphong and northern region.
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Saigon
UPI
U.S
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Nixon
President Nixon travels to Independence to honor Truman
President Nixon flies to Independence Massachusetts to pay final respects to Harry Truman. He and Mrs. Nixon will lay a wreath at the Truman Library and observe a national day of mourning with half staff flags. Nixon recalls Truman as courageous and visionary, praising the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan as turning points in preserving peace.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Independence
Harry Truman
Richard Debaur Air Force Base
Truman Library
Truman
U.S. Navy
Key Biscayne
Fla
Europe
Whits House
First National Forest land in Bennington is authorized
About 1,000 acres in Bennington are slated to join Green Mountain National Forest after selectmen approved selling land to the federal government. The Dewey family ownership in Woodford and A J Dewey and Sons will transfer, marking Bennington's first Forest land. The tract lies along the eastern town line near Bald Mountain and runs about two and a quarter miles long and three quarters of a mile wide. Taxes and town revenue will shift, with towns receiving 25 percent of National Forest profits from operations, likely not offsetting all lost taxes.
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Jan Slusmon
Bennington
Green Mountain National Forest
Charles E. Dewey
Woodford
A.J. Dewey
National Forest
Vermont
Dewey
Bennington County
Bald Mountain
Somoza orders guards to shoot looters in Managua crisis
In Managua, General Anastasio Somoza ordered the National Guard to patrol the shattered city and halt pillaging, promising food to survivors. He appealed for calm and urged burying the dead as relief drives continued with Red Cross teams collecting bodies and distributing rice, beans, milk, sugar, and water.
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Managua
Nicaragua
UPS
Anastasio Somoza
National Guard
Somoza
Red Cross
Calvario
Satuday
Navy buys stock in Gap Instrument to aid sinking plant
The Navy purchased all $1.7 million of Gap Instrument Corp preferred shares, making the Defense Department the largest single stockholder. The nonvoting, nonconvertible stock carries no dividends and will be redeemed from after tax profits beginning 1976. Gap, hit by inflation and weak sales, has not profited in four years. the plan is described as a War Powers Act intervention to avoid bankrupting the firm while preventing further cost overruns on Navy contracts.
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Hauppauge
Navy
Gap Instrument Corp
Department of Defense
William Promise
Grumman
Gap
Joseph Langford
Adm
Roland Freeman
Navy Contract Adjustment Board
Admiral Freeman
Congress
Bus Crash Kills 19 Teens and Chaperons in New Mexico
A cattle truck jackknifed on a narrow Fort Sumner bridge and crashed into an eight bus carrying 35 Texas teenagers and chaperons to a Baptist retreat. Nineteen dead, many injured. remote scene hampered treatment. An Air Force surgeon aided victims after the crash near Clovis.
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Fort Sumner
N.M
Austin
Ervy Wilmoth
Wilmoth Cattle Co
Clovis
de Baca
Roland Crane
Air Force
Kirtland Air Force Base
John Roberts
Woodlawn Baptist Church
James Abington
Lyle Russ
Inside Cannibalism in the Andes and Page Notes
The page sequence lists features including an Inside Cannibalism piece on page 2, a registration note for Prospect sti club on page 4, an editorial and personal recollection of Marty Truman on pages 4 and 5, and Cora Cheney recalling a Vermont toymaker and his dolls on page 4.
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Prospect
Sti Club
Marty Truman
Cora Cheney
Vermont
John Page
Hoosick Falls Central
Fish & Game Department
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Guam
Thailand
Raiyards
Ware
Haiphong
Col
First National Forest
Fiero
Nicaraguut
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