Vermont Yankee shutdown sparks possible suit over power costs
Vermont Attorney General M Jerome Diamond plans to file a lawsuit to bar electric utilities from charging consumers for power bought from other sources during the Vermont Yankee reactor shutdown. The plant briefly shut Jan 27 over a safety-system issue and resumed Feb 13 after NRC approval. Governor Salmon urged national focus on coal and solar energy and hinted at new task forces to study nuclear questions.
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Thomas Salmon
Washington
Salmon
Vermont Yankee
Connecticut River
Vermont
Federal
NRC
San Jose
Calif
National Governors’ Conference
Committee On Energy and the Environment
Vermont Yankee engineers call for shutdown over safety
In Brattleboro the three General Electric engineers who resigned over nuclear plant safety urged immediate closure of the Vermont Yankee plant on technical grounds. They said economic factors must factor into any shutdown, criticized federal pronuclear stance, and urged state driven public pressure, warning NRC is insufficient as watchdog.
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General Electric Co
Vermont Yankee
Dale G. Bridenbaugh
San Jose
Calif
Bridenbaugh
Gregory C. Minor
Richard B. Hubbard
Vermont
California
Washington, D.C
Joint
House Senate Committee On Atomic Energy
Washington
Hubbard
Federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Reformer
U.S
Sen
John Glenn
D-Ohio
NRC
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp
General Electric Corp
Vernon
Yankee Corporation
United States
Minor
New York City
Boston
JFK affair alleged with twist linked to Meyers diary
Washington Post ex editor says President Kennedy had a two year romance with artist Mary Pinchot Meyer and they allegedly smoked marijuana in the White House. The National Enquirer first reported the tale based on James Truitt, a former Post aide now in Mexico. Details recount their meetings 1962 1963 and an alleged joint smoking prompting a remark about a White House narcotics conference. Meyer was murdered in 1964. a man was acquitted. Truitt corroborated to the Post.
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UPI
Washington Post
Kennedy
White House
National Enquirer
James Truitt
The
Post
Mexico
Enquirer
Mary Pinchot Meyer
Kennedys
Toni Bradlee
Benjamin Bradlee
Miss Meyer
C&o Canal
Georgetown
CIA
James Angleton
Truitt
Mary
Jfk
Jack
San Miguel Allende
Cord Meyer Jr
Kenneth O’donnell
Route 7 court battle may not be over yet
The Route 7 dispute from Bennington to Manchester may continue after the Second Circuit ruling of February 18 reversed prior findings and allowed a state EIS with federal guidance. Opponents, led by environmental groups, consider seeking an en banc rehearing amid Judge Adams strong NEPA dissent. They face a 14 day post judgment window to act.
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Manchester
U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals
Harvey D. Carter II
Circuit Court
Arlin M. Adams
William Hughes Mulligan
Leonard P. Moore
NEPA
Adams
Congress
U.S. District Court
Second Circuit
U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court
12 Death Blast Blamed on Spark at Houston Grain Facility
Officials say a spark from a welding torch ignited volatile grain dust, triggering a blast that leveled a 10 story grain storage building along Houston's Ship Channel. Fire officials expect at least 12 deaths as workers remain trapped under rubble at Goodpasture Inc. facility.
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UPI
Ship Channel
Fire Department
Paul Carr
Goodpasture, Inc
Carr
Nixon Meets Mao in Peking in Quiet Talks on Peace
Former President Richard Nixon spent about an hour and forty minutes with Mao Tse tung at Mao's residence in Peking as a Chinese official described their talk as friendly and wide ranging Nixon later toured the capital with his wife Pat and met with Hua Kuo Feng the acting premier and other top officials The meeting followed Nixon's remarks at a banquet in the Great Hall of the People about peace and Helsinki amid U S Soviet detente tension
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UPI
Richard Nixon
Communist Party
Mao Tse-tung
Nixon
Ford
United States
Mao
Reuters
Helsinki
Henry A. Kissinger
Soviet Union
Forbidden City
Pat
John Brennen
Hua Kuo-feng
Chiao Kuanhua
Huang Chen
China
Washington
Wang Hai-jung
Tang Wensheng
Chang Han-chi
Foreign Ministry
Gerald R. Ford
Peking Agricultural Exhibition Hall
Hua
Chou Enlai
Shanghai
Kremlin
Kissinger in Colombia on canal talks and drug issue
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger met with Colombian President Alfonso Lopez Michelsen to discuss the Panama Canal negotiations and narcotics control. He said the United States will not use military force in future Angola-type situations and aims for a concrete hemispheric cooperation program in Latin America.
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Colombia
UPI
Henry Kissinger
Alfonso Lopez Michelsen
Panama Canal
Kissinger
Costa Rica
United States
Rio de Janeiro
Hato Grande
Michelsen
U.S
Angola
Latin America
Washington
Ford
Central American
Guatemala
el Salvador
Honduras
Nicaragua
Panama
Mt Anthony School District votes on $3.64 million budget tomorrow
Tonight the Mt Anthony Union School District holds a 7:30 floor meeting in the Walker-Morgan Memorial Auditorium to approve the warrant and set salaries. Tomorrow voters in five districts cast ballots on a $3.64 million budget. results will be telephoned to the central office. Separate polling sites open 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Bennington Elementary, North Bennington Fire House, Cole Hall, Pownal Town Clerk, and Woodford Hollow School.
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Walker-Morgan Memorial
Union School Board
Central School of
Main St
George A. Sleeman
Mt. Anthony
Bennington
School Street
North Bennington
McCullough Fire House
Shaftsbury
Cole Hall
Pownal
Woodford
Woodford Hollow
Inside headlines and local notes fill the pages
A roundup of nation and local news with campaign tone notes, Vermont Symphony spring tour, Masons bicentennial planning, a homespun remembrance by Gerald Raftery, and opinion columns. Arlington tax estimates and Shaftsbury funding discussed along with Pownal Town Meeting contests. Sports cover Patriots wrestling, MAU basketball top seed, UCLA home-court loss, and Nastase beat Connors. Meteorologist drought fears and Newport Navy base recovery headline the general pages.
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Sinailand
Humphrey
Arlington
Vermont Symphony
Masons
Gerald Raftery
TRB
Russell Baker
New Hampshire
Ephraim
Melvin Maddocks
Shaftsbury
Pownal
Patriots
MAU
UCLA
Nastase
Connors
Newport
Navy
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