Congress races to end session over supersonic flight
Washington reports Congress moved to finish year by midnight amid stalled talks on funds for the supersonic transport. The House proposed 210 million for the SST while the Senate opposed any funding, with negotiators seeking a compromise to allow adjournment. Environmental concerns cited by the Senate shape hopes for a quick end.
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Washington
UPI
Congress
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Senate
Senate Finance Committee
Russell B. Long
D-La
Ways and Means
Wilbur D. Mills
Plan for elderly sought
Vermont officials weigh a legislative program to aid about 50 000 seniors, half in poverty. A two month ESCO Research survey found low incomes and underuse of $32 million in benefits, prompting calls for better information services and targeted public and private support.
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Montpelier
UPI
Council On the Aging
Vermont
Deane C. Davis
Stephen Green
Council
Esco Research Inc
Portland
Green
Davis budget hold the line on Vermont spending
Gov. Deane C. Davis unveils a hold the line balanced 119 million general fund budget for the year ending June 30 1972. He cautions austerity while aiming no new taxes and preserving education funding at current levels amid a tight revenue outlook and capital requests.
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Vermont Student Assistance Corp
Social Welfare Department
University of Vermont
Vermont State Colleges
Vermont
General Fund
Mercury found in Lake George fish prompting consumption warning
New York conservation officials reported Lake George fish including lake trout rainbow trout and smallmouth bass exceed FDA mercury safety levels. Sport fishing remains allowed. Contamination source unknown with no identified industrial discharge. Previously advised against eating fish from several nearby waters.
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N.Y
UPI
New York
Lake George
State Department of Environmental Conservation
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
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Ontario
Onondaga and Champlain
Oswego
Niagara
St. Lawrence
Radioactive Milk Traces Found in Five States
UPI reports traces of radioactive iodine in raw milk from five states after an underground nuclear test dust release. EPA said levels were not dangerous and dissipated within days after the December 18 incident.
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Las Vegas
UPI
Environmental Protection Agency
Southwest Radiological Laboratory
Ocean fish seized over DDT contamination in Los Angeles
Federal authorities seized about 8,000 pounds of kingfish from Los Angeles harbor due to DDT contamination. An FDA spokesman said the action marks the first federal move against salt water fish. The fish, likely caught within 20 miles of the Southern California coast, contained DDT at nearly four times the FDA limit. Kingfish are typically sold for human consumption.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Los Angeles Harbor
Federal Food and Drug Administration
California
FDA
Explosion Kills 38 in Kentucky Coal Mine Disaster
An underground explosion at Finley Coal Co. near Hyden Kentucky killed 38 miners 1600 feet inside the mine. Rescue crews recovered all bodies by 9:45 a.m. as investigators promised a joint state federal probe to determine the cause.
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Hyden
UPI
Finley Coal Co
Kentucky
James Westfield
U.S. Bureau of Mines
Dwayne Miller
Conny Couches
Alonzo
Soviet High Court Frees Jewish Hijackers Sentences
The Russian Supreme Court commuted to 15 years the death sentences of two Leningrad Jews jailed for plotting to hijack a plane to Sweden. Six other defendants had their terms reduced or confirmed as relatives and crowds reacted outside the Moscow court near Red Square.
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UPI
Supreme Court
Kremlin
Leningrad
Sweden
Red Square
Mark Dymshus
Jerusalem
Golda Mieir
Israel
Dymshus
Eduard
Kuznetsov
Francisco Franco
Dymshits
Franco grants clemency to Basque nationalists
In Burgos Spain Generalissimo Francisco Franco commuting six Basque death sentences to 30 years in prison averts a crisis and prompts mixed reactions from the Vatican and many governments. The prisoners pledged to keep fighting for Basque independence with a defiant revolution or death.
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Burgos
Spain
UPI
Franco
Vatican
State Line House tax sale could spook folklore fans
Shaftsbury tax collector announces a sale of Anthony Perry’s lands tied to the Route 67 State Line House, a property straddling Vermont and New York in Bennington, Rensselaer and Washington counties. If the 1970 taxes of about $750 go unpaid by January 16, bidders may acquire only the portion in Shaftsbury, raising questions about what fraction of the house is sold.
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Route 67
North Bennington
Ripley
Paul Jepson
Anthony Perry
State Line
Vermont
New York
Bennington
Rensselaer
Washington
White Creek
Hoosick
Jepson
State Line House
Michael Akoury
Perry
Manchester Center
Akoury
Burlington
Inside The Bests and Bays of a Busy Year
A collage of year’s highlights notes Ellen Cronan Rose’s “bests” that can be eaten, a college described as entirely new, Dorset’s firm stance on a boundary dispute, John Hart’s shooting spree with a twist, and football wives facing a long separation until Monday, as reported across pages three, five, eight, and nine.
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Ellen Cronan Rose
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