Helicopters Rescue 400 From Blazing Sao Paulo Skyscraper
In Sao Paulo a 25 story Pirani Building housing a department store and offices burned after 3:15 pm. Sixteen helicopters airlifted more than 400 trapped occupants from the roof over six hours. Nine deaths were confirmed and over 400 injured as occupants jumped to escape flames. Officials saw no survivors likely inside as fire raged and a stairway problem was blamed.
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Sao Paula
Brazil
UPI
Pirani
Cdair Guerra
Air Force
Fire Department
Inaja Guedes de Barros
Guedes
United States
Davis seeks to salvage tax cut in Vermont House
Gov Deane C Davis personally intervened to salvage a $1 million personal income tax cut in the omnibus bill. He returned from Washington to forge a compromise with House leaders that overruled the Appropriations Committee. The plan outlines a three pronged approach to preserve the tax cut and budget.
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Davis
Washington
House
House Appropriations Committee
Vermont
Mary Thurber
Charlotte
Gov. Davis
State and Defense Departments
Montpelier
Coalition Won't Back Vernon Test License At Vernon Plant
Conservationists will not pursue a court challenge to block the AEC permit for start-up testing at Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp in Vernon. The New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution will drop a suit on the 1 percent loading license but may challenge a 20 percent operation permit. Briefs are due in Washington today. hearings were held last month in Brattleboro. The group seeks full health and safety guarantees before approving operation.
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Brattleboro
VPI
Atomic Energy Commission
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp
Vernon
Esther Poneck
New England Coalition On Nuclear Pollution
Connecticut River
Washington
Commission
Vermont Yankee
AEC
Samuel Jensch
Nixon Chou pledge closer ties as talks continue in China
Chinese Premier Chou En-lai pledged to work unswervingly toward friendship and normalized relations with the United States after intensive summit talks with President Nixon. Nixon, fatigued yet hopeful, said peace and harmony could guide both nations, while officials indicated progress on exchanges and trade though no formal agreement was announced.
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Peking
UPI
Chou En-lai
Nixon
United States
Chou
Great Hall of the People
China
Hangchow
White House
Mao Tse-tung
Shanghai
Washington
Forbidden City
George Washington
What makes Ralph Wright tick in SVSU race
Ralph G Wright Bennington Program director runs against Assistant Supt George A Sleeman for SVSU superintendent arguing the board blocked other candidates undermining democratic rights. He says the move risks a weaker education system, bureaucratic control, and loss of accountability to taxpayers and students. He acknowledges he would likely be a poor superintendent yet questions if Sleeman represents Bennington’s best for the money.
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Ralph G. Wright
Bennington
George A. Sleeman
Southwest Vermont Supervisory Union
SVSU
Wright
Sleeman
Banner
George Sleeman
Ralph Wright
Plane lacking clues. CAP ends Vermont air search
Vermont CAP teams pressed the final air search for a missing Piper Aztec with two North Philadelphia men, Joe Mongi and William Beyer, believed overdue after radar contact and snowbound conditions. Officials warned survival chances were slim, as ground crews expanded from Rupert and Sandgate into Vermont’s southwest and border areas. If no signs emerge, the aircraft will be listed overdue and the men missing.
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Vermont
Civil Air Patrol
CAP
Joe Mongi
William Beyer
Philadelphia
Delaware Aviation Corp
Rupert
Sandgate
Bennington County
Maine
New Hampshire
Rutland
Massachusetts
New York
Richard Hurd
The
State Aeronautics Board
Hurd
Foster Corliss
Inside Storylines and Local Debates Across Pages
An offset of items includes comic opera in Moscow framed by polite jitters in Japan, Archbishop Medeiros reporting a $35 million church debt in New England, Ag Rockwood’s musings on pussywillows, touring dance troupes and peace efforts, a ping-pong letter-writing clash over special education, a Tax Department official detailing statewide listing inequities, Arlington contesting Route 7 access with the Highway Department to Gov. Davis, Shaftsbury school addition moving smoothly, Little Monster debut with Gerald Raftery readers, and the Patriots approaching the end of a difficult season.
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Moscow
Japan
Medeiros
New England
Ag Rockwood
Tax Department
Arlington
Highway Department
Gov. Davis
Shaftsbury
Little Monster
Gerald Raftery
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Coalition
Poneck
Montreal
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