Holiday tornado injures 18 in Maine coast raid
A powerful windstorm sweeping across southern Maine injured at least 18 people and downed trees and power lines across four counties near Sebago Lake. Camps and summer homes were hardest hit, with several seriously injured. Crews worked through the night to restore electricity and phones as officials urged tourists to stay away until repairs.
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Bridgton
Maine
UPI
Portland
Raymond
Michael Davison
Lincoln
Androsgoggin
Civil Defense
Timothy Wilson
Michael Cole
Braintree
Mass
Central Maine General Hospital
Lewiston
Poland
William Bair
Wells
Crescent Lake
Portland General Hospital
Cumberland County
Joseph Madore
Central Maine Power Co
Reg Fadden
Britain urges solutions in Ireland
London urges Northern Ireland to draft a plan ending years of sectarian conflict. A white paper orders a 76 member constitutional convention to devise a governing formula. It warns that without broad agreement, violence could intensify and direct rule cannot last.
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London
UPI
Britain
Northern Ireland
Council of Ireland
Belfast
Irish Republic
Ulster
Nader presses Fed on cattle loan credit steps
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader says the Federal Reserve urged banks to extend credit to hard pressed cattle producers and seeks clarity on concrete steps. He cites a June 13 Burns letter urging banks to provide credit while avoiding undue risk and asks what Fed actions would meet a pending government cattle loan guarantee bill.
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Washington
UPI
Ralph Nader
Federal Reserve System
Nader
Federal Reserve
Arthur F. Burns
Burns
Chicago
St. Louis
Kansas City
Dallas
Early July Fourth traffic deaths under a hundred
United Press International reports fewer than 100 highway fatalities in the first 24 hours of the July Fourth weekend. The National Safety Council estimated total four day deaths between 450 and 660, well below the 1972 four day record. The council urged seat belts and safe speeds. At 1 am EDT the tally stood at 116 traffic deaths for the holiday period.
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United Press International
National Safety Council
Sundae
Council
Vincent Tofany
Sea law failure would be world war threat
Britain warned at the Third Law Conference that without an internationally acceptable maritime code the oceans could become theaters of war. David Ennals said conflicts may arise over navigation, fishing rights, offshore oil, and deep sea mineral exploitation as 148 nations debate proposals for a coastal state economic zone and free navigation guarantees. Delegates, including Britain, Cuba, China, and Albania, continued a 10 week session as Venezuela marked independence day.
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Caracas
High Seas
David Ennals
Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Ennals
CBC Poll Predicts Stanfield Victory In Canada Election
The Canadian Broadcasting Corp reports its final public opinion poll shows Conservative leader Robert Stanfield may unseat Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and form a new minority government. The Ontario reading signals a Tory edge as Liberal support slips from 36 to 34 percent while Conservative support rises to 33 percent.
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Canadian Broadcasting Corp
Robert Stanfield
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
CBC
Trudeau
Liberal Party
Tories
New Democratic Party
Stanfield
Ontario
Liberals
Windsor
Ont
Canada
Cosmonauts rehearse U S rendezvous with Apollo linkup planned
Two Soviet cosmonauts Pavel Popovich and Yuri Artyukhin docked Soyuz 14 with the Salyut 3 lab in a test linked to an Earth observation mission. Tass said the approach, station keeping and docking went normally, auto systems handled early flight but docking final approach was manual. The crew will conduct earth studies and medico biological tests as a rehearsal for a joint Soviet Apollo linkup next summer.
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Moscow
UPI
U.S
Tass
Baikonur
Central Asia
Vostok 4
Artyukhin
Veterans demand amnesty and benefits in D.C. rally
A Vietnam War protest at the Jefferson Memorial drew veterans from New York to Ohio with banners calling for universal amnesty for war resisters and end to U S aid to South Vietnam and Cambodia. Participants pressed for veterans’ benefits and broader rights, led by Vietnam Veterans Against the War and allied groups.
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New York
Chicago
Cincinnati
Dayton
Ohio
Jefferson Memorial
North Vietnam
Viet Cong
Khmer Rouge
Cambodia
Pathet Lao
Laos
Vietnam Veterans Against the War-Winter Soldier Organization
Valley Forge
U.S
Thieu
Lon Nol
Vietnam
Nixon
G.I. Forum
The
American Veterans Movement
National Association For Puerto Rican In Rights
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Bennington Banner
State Civil Defense Office
Sebago Lake
Here
Ervin Linscott
Ireland
England
India
Commodore
Montreal
Bob Crestohl
Crestohl
Nordahl Flakstad
Fiji
Seas
Cuba
Havana
National Liberation Movement
Cam
China
Albania
Soviet Union
United States
Lata
Main St
Bennington
Connie
Yeak
Robbe
Bass
Buster Brown
Bennington, Vi
New Westminster
B.C
David Lewis
Lewis
King
Winnipeg
Man
Conservatives
U.S. Rendezvous
Berkshire Plaza
North Adams, Mase
Ian
Harmen
Payrell Savings Plan
America
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