Carter promises account of MIAs
President Carter met with six representatives of the League of Families seeking information on missing in action soldiers. He pledged to send emissaries to Vietnam for the fullest possible accounting and met Panama canal negotiators to push good faith talks. He also outlined a farmland trust, and Eckerd’s resignation as GSA head amid a naming dispute. Beame praised Carter’s briefing on New York City’s finances.
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UPI
Georgia
Carter
White House
Vietnam
Plains
Congress
Carters
League of Families
Jerrold Schecter
Southeast Asia
Schecter
League
Earl Hopper
Panama
Abraham Beame
New York City
Beame
Spanish officials freed in shootout near Madrid
Police stormed two Madrid suburbs and freed Gen. Emilio Villaescusa Quilis and Antonio Maria de Oriol y Urquijo after a shootout with GRAPO guerrillas who had held them since late January and early March. Both officials were in good health. Police reported arrests and ongoing roadblocks near Madrid. In Barcelona, four leftists shot two police, one killed, one injured, amid continuing violence.
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Madrid
Spain
UPI
Information Ministry
Emilio Villaescusa Quilis
Antonio Maria de Oriol Y Urquijo
Council of State
Barcelona
GRAPO
Alcorcon
Oriol
Villaescusa
Gomez Ulla
Algiers
Vermont House Repeals Fuel Tax Step by Step
Vermont House Ways and Means Committee endorsed eliminating the nine percent income tax surtax and the three percent sales tax on fuel and electricity for residential heating. The plan totals a ten million dollar four year tax cut, with phased removal starting next year. Dissenters Candon and Smith opposed the surtax repeal. A straw poll favored removing the home heating fuel sales tax. a formal vote is due next week.
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Montpelier
UPI
Vermont House Ways and Means
An artist whose time has come
Artist Lothar Wuerslin lives in Sandgate with his wife Ann Bunny and three sons. For over a decade he has focused on life size wood carvings resembling Bunny, plus other works from poisonous Mexican roots and reclaimed wood. He sources blocks from Northeast Wood Products in Pownal and glues them at Miles Lumber in Arlington.
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Lothar Wuerslin
Wuerslin
Ann
Sandgate
Bunny
Mexico
Pownal
Miles Lumber Co
Arlington
Brezhnev calls detente a ruse in 1973 report
A British intelligence memo quoted Brezhnev claiming detente would tilt Europe in Soviet favor. The Boston Globe cites Kissinger officials questioning the quotes and the memo’s credibility. The report, tied to a National Intelligence Estimate, warned of a 1985 shift in power and improved Soviet economic position.
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UPI
Leonid Brezhnev
Europe
Soviet Union
Boston Globe
Brezhnev
Prague
The
Globe
Henry Kissinger
Argo Merchant owners billed for Coast Guard expenses
The government filed in U S District Court seeking 1 8 million from Thebes Shipping Company owners of the Argo Merchant for Coast Guard costs tied to the December disaster near Nantucket Island. The suit covers rescue, air surveillance, and oil slick monitoring with potential extra claims for cleanup. A June trial will determine liability. weather notes predict mixed rain and snow with highs near 40.
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New York
UPI
Argo
Coast Guard
Nantucket Island
U.S. District Court
Justice Department
Nantucket Shoals
Thebes Shipping Company
Thebes
Thomas Griesa
Boston
Beers Named Ethan Allen College President After Stevenson Resigns
Dr. Roland F. Beers, a college trustee and academic dean, was elected president of Ethan Allen Community College in Manchester following Timothy Stevenson’s sudden resignation. Beers and Southern Vermont College President Thomas A. Gee discussed possible merger or consolidation plans while aiming to keep the school strong. SVC credits would transfer, and both institutions would cooperate to study options this term.
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Beers
Ethan Allen College
Southern Vermont College
Roland F. Beers
Bonnet Street
Timothy Stevenson
Marshall Peck
Thomas A. Gee
SVC
Gee
Ethan Allen
Peck
Timothy
Ethan Allen Community College
Thomas Gee
EACC
Vermont Yankee beefs up p r public relations in nuclear fight
The Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp plans a sharper public relations push as bitter debate over nuclear power in Vermont and New England intensifies. The company will raise its annual PR budget by about 2.5 times and hire a new public relations director, Stacy Weaver, to present factual information amid efforts by anti nuclear groups and state authorities to curb future plants and waste storage. The broader dispute includes Vermont moves to seek legislative review of nuclear waste storage and local resolutions to block plants and waste transport.
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William Poole Montpelier
UPI
Vermont
New England
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp
Vermont Yankee
John Beck
Vermont Attorney General’s Office
Beck
Stacy Weaver
Westinghouse
Combustion Engineering
Seabrook
N.H
New Hampshire
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Jack Eckerd
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GSA
Eckerd
House
John Leaning
Ing
William Beecher
NATO
Georges Bank
Nantucket
Joseph Smith
Gulf Stream
Griesa
Manchester
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