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Bennington Banner

Location

Bennington, Vermont, United States of America

Date

Feb 09, 1971

Page

2

IRA escalates guerrilla warfare in Belfast violence

Five civilians died when their Land Rover hit a land mine 70 miles west of Belfast amid a night of IRA bomb and machine gun attacks on British troops. BBC engineers were among the dead. clashes left four Protestant teens wounded and soldiers hit in Ardoyne. Unrest followed a prior fatal street accident and riots as youths launched petrol bomb sorties.

Belfast Northern Ireland UPI Here Brougher Mountain Duke of Kent Queen Elizabeth British Broadcasting Corp BBC Irish Republican Army IRA

Winter Weather Grips Nation With Snow Fears

Foul weather hits broadly as Eagle River Wisconsin endures 40 below zero. Western New York New Hampshire Vermont and Maine face heavy snow warnings and travel advisories. Ohio Kentucky and Florida confront cold waves while arctic air chills the Great Plains and Midwest. Police avert sectarian clashes in Londonderry as Roman Catholic and Protestant youths clash. in Rome police seize potential weapons on campus with no arrests.

New York New Hampshire Massachusetts Vermont Maine Rochester Monroe County N.Y Kentucky Florida Panhandle Gulf Coast Houston Tex Buffalo New Englad Great Plains Midlands Texas Rio Grande Valley Florida Seaboard Southern State Parkway Queens Lake Erie

Agnew Pushes Tax Sharing Plan In Ohio Visit

Vice President Spiro Agnew toured Ohio meeting Gov. Gilligan and state leaders about President Nixon’s 16 billion dollar federal state revenue sharing plan. He urged unity and swift action, noting delays would shortchange Ohio. A separate incident at Radio City Music Hall saw a cleaner disarm an incendiary device, reporting it before 9 AM.

Columbus, Ohio UPI Spiro T. Agnew John J. Gilligan Nixon New York Radio City Music Hall Marie Hurst Agnew Ohio Chamber of the Ohio House of Representatives Gilligan

Two peace talks lag as U S and Russia apart on Berlin and SALT

U S and Soviet negotiators remain far from agreement on Berlin access and strategic arms limits. Berlin talks resumed after a two month break while SALT set to open March 15 in Vienna. U S officials reject Soviet tied trade proposal linking East and West Berlin to recognition of East Germany. Defense links on SALT include keeping fighter bombers out of the deal and pursuing NATO Warsaw Pact tactical reductions. In England, John Easterbrook reports thieves stole six broken color sets and replaced them with two working sets from his shop window.

Washington UPI United States Russia Berlin U.S Vienna East Berlin East Germany Europe Defense Melvin R. Laird NATO Woking, England John Easterbrook

Indicted aide returns to desk in senator’s office

Robert T. Carson, indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly trying to fix a securities fraud case involving a Mafia boss, has returned to his desk in Sen. Hiram L. Fong’s office in Hawaii. He remains suspended from his $33,000-a-year job as administrative assistant and has been back five days, with staff briefed before Fong’s Africa inspection trip that Carson would be reassigned pending outcome.

Washington UPI Robert T. Carson Hiram L. Fong Hawaii Fong Carson Africa Senate Appropriations Committee Senate New York Richard G. Kleindienst Justice Department John Johnny Dio Dioguardia Cosa Nostra

AT&T documentary used as tool in U S diplomacy

USIA chief says the AT&T produced It Couldn’t Be Done is a landmark in state policy as a commercial documentary shaping foreign views. The film, praised as a beacon of American achievement, has been aired in 126 countries and privately in eight Iron Curtain nations, with potential global reach estimated at half a billion viewers this decade.

New York UPI Frank J. Shakespeare, Jr United States Information Agency USIA American Telephone & Telegraph Company America Shakespeare At&t U.S Panama Canal Golden Gate Bridge Hoover Dam Mount Rushmore Manila Portugal Japan Okinawa

Carswell joins Administration Conference council

President Nixon appoints G Harrold Carswell to the Council of the Administration Conference of the United States. The former Supreme Court nominee, defeated by the Senate, is a Tallahassee lawyer and ex appeals court judge who sought the Florida Senate nomination last year.

Washington UPI Nixon G. Harrold Carswell Supreme Court Council of the Administration Conference of the United States Council Carswell Senate Tallahassee Fla U.S. Senate Florida

Octogenarians Wed in Parma as 92 Attend

In Parma Idaho Jay Hoover eighty one and Marla Wilson eighty two married at the Parma Community Church. Close relatives numbered ninety two including twelve great grandchildren. The couple, lifelong Boise Valley residents, had known each other for forty years and planned a celebration at their new mobile home after an all day open house.

Parma Idaho Birch Hoover Boise Valley Boise San Juan Islands Joseph Wilson San Francisco United Press International Mark Purcell

John Wayne’s Chisum Headlining At Local Theaters

Movie listings note John Wayne star turns in Chisum at Harte Theatre with other attractions including Something for Everyone at Manchester Cinema and Five Easy Pieces at College Cinema in Williams town. Chisum is described as a western with rugged action and a G rating despite heated era protests. Five Easy Pieces earns an R rating and features Jack Nicholson. Showtimes include 7:30 and 9:15 p.m. at Manchester and 8 p.m. at Harte and College Cinema.

John Wayne Chisum Wayne Ronald Reagan Big John Harte Theatre Manchester Williamstown Jack Nicholson Karen Black Nicholson Harte College Cinema

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