Blacks seize seven Mt Holyoke buildings in protest
About 200 Black students from four colleges occupied seven Mt Holyoke College buildings in South Hadley Mass to protest what they called intellectual genocide of Negro students. They moved from Amherst Smith Hampshire and UMass after earlier action there and demanded increased Black enrollment aid and a Black studies program.
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UMass Dean Grants Black Students Dormitory Demands
Dean of Students William Field agreed to remove 68 white students from Mills House in Amherst by next Tuesday following a spontaneous fistfight. The dorm, partly a cultural center for Black students, had seen a takeover before the whites retreated to end the incident at 5 30 am after negotiations with school authorities.
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University of Massachusetts
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UPI
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William F. Field
New England Governors Urge Nixon Action on Oil Quotas
The New England governors urged President Nixon to adopt a tariff system replacing oil import quotas, seeking quicker reform to lower costs and curb oil industry abuses. They backed Cabinet Task Force proposals while stressing national security and industry interests.
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UPI
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Vermont
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Italian City Threatened By a Slow Earthquake
Pozzuoli, a Naples suburb of 70,000, has risen 28 inches since September in a bradyseism event. Damage totals about 2.4 million dollars as authorities evacuate a 60 bed hospital and scores of homes, a school, and a teacher training college. Harbor offices are abandoned while the 6th Fleet area shelters displaced families.
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Doctors Optimistic About Quints Chances
New York report says the Kienast quintuplets were taken off oxygen enriched air and are guardedly optimistic for survival. The parents Mr. and Mrs. William Kienast have tentatively named four of the infants Amy Sarah Abigail and William Gordon, though officials say names may change. The babies were born six weeks early to 27 year old Mrs. Margaret Kienast and the 38 year old father. The couple has two older children and the mother used fertilization pills to help ovulation.
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William Kienast
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William Gordon
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Margaret Kienast
Senate Panel Rejects Abortion Bill
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee delivered a setback by rejecting the abortion reform measure, signaling a tough path ahead in the upper chamber. The bill aimed to expand abortion access beyond current Vermont law as it moves to the Judiciary Committee.
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House Health and Welfare and
Judiciary
Measure to Curb Campus Demonstrations in Vermont
Four representatives plan to introduce a bill in the Vermont House to dismiss students or employees at state institutions for disruptive acts. Grounds include assembly of five or more for disorderly conduct likely to cause harm, obscene language or gestures, or excessive noise or rule violations. Critics, including House Minority Leader Thomas Salmon, question constitutionality.
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Thomas Salmon
Rockingham
Vermont AG Clears Gibson Candidacy for Superior Court Seat
The attorney general ruled Public Service Board Chairman Ernest W. Gibson III eligible to seek a vacant Superior Court seat. Jeffords concluded state statutes allow a regulatory post with judicial powers to count as practicing law, noting the PSB’s equity and authority resemble a court.
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Gibson
Guilford Opposes East West New Road Crossing
Guilford officials resist an east west New England highway crossing their town. Nine Guilford Town Planning Commission members urge keeping the scenic back road system to avoid dead ends noise air and scenic pollution from a proposed route crossing twelve back roads. The possibility of building the road remains uncertain.
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Guilford
Windham
Vermont Senate approves Betit for social welfare post
The Vermont Senate confirmed Joseph Betit as social welfare commissioner in a unanimous voice vote. Betit, formerly Alaska health and welfare commissioner, will take the $19,300 post April 1, succeeding John Wackerman who resigned last September.
Montpelier educator named assistant director at Vermont Education Dept
Dr. Leon H. Bruno of Montpelier, former Newport mayor and teacher in Arlington and Bethel, was named assistant director of the state Education Department's division of instructional services. He will oversee federal and state programs including Title I and III and assist communities with designs for education. Rep. Robert Stafford to speak at Vermont College commencement on June 2. his daughter Barbara is in the graduating class.
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Montpelier
Leon H. Bruno
Newport High School
Arlington
Bethel
State Education Department
Bruno
State Department
Vermont
Robert T. Stafford
Vermont College
Rep. Stafford
Barbara
College For
Albany State to host Kunstler amid campus debate
SUNY President Charles O'Reilly defended facility use for varied speakers as Assemblyman Kellaher pushes to bar William Kunstler from Albany State University. Kunstler reportedly postponed his talk due to fatigue amid fears of violence and ongoing appeals in the Chicago Seven riot case. Troy city government undergoes changes as Public Safety Commissioner Edward Fitzgerald resigns and DPW Commissioner J Leo Quigley retires on reaching 70.
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Albany
Neil W. Kelleher
Albany State University
William Kunstler
Chicago
University
SUNY
Charles O’reilly
Kunstler
Kelleher
Julius Hoffman
Hoffman
Leonard Weinglass
Troy
Ralph DeSantis
Troy Public Safety
Edward A. Fitzgerald
Department of Public Works
J. Leo Quigley
Fitzgerald
Quigley
Subsidy cap eyed as elderly housing project hangs on fate
In Berkshire, the state faces a 4 percent subsidy ceiling limit for elderly housing. Bids opened for a new project show George Emerson Construction Co. of Pittsfield at 2,288,000, about 400,000 above feasible funding. The North Berkshire Development Corp. dissolved after 15 years seeking industry, bonds to be paid at 61.9 cents on the dollar with shell building sale proceeds. In Williamstown Mt Greylock Regional High School faculty seek superintendent review while Lee ends 200 years of town meetings with 54 new town meeting representatives to be elected. Berkshire Investment Corp. president Harry Melcher joins City Conservation Commission and Hayden family figures named to Tree Commission.
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George Emerson Construction Co
Pittsfield
North Berkshire Development Corp
Shell
General Cable Corp. of
New York
Williamstown
Mt. Greylock
Harry Melcher
Berkshire Investment Corp
City Conservation Commission
Thelma Hayden
Francis H. Hayden
Hayden Oil Co
John G. Reed
Tree Commission
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