Brattleboro Man Leads Drive for Deaf Voice Agency
Dominick Bonura, a Deaf Vermonter and president of the Vermont Association for the Deaf, spearheads a statewide agency to be run by Deaf people with private and state funding. The project aims to link Deaf individuals with the hearing public, encourage employers to hire Deaf workers, and promote participation in recreation and community life. Bonura, his wife Helene, and their Deaf children illustrate the effort, which includes training in sign language for doctors, lawyers, and police.
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UPI
Dominick Bonura
Bonura
Vermont Association For the Deaf
Ray Stevens
Austine School
Vermont
Stevens
Service Bureau For
New York City
Gallaudet College
Washington, D.C
Liberal Arts College For the
Washington
Austine
Claremont
N.H
Keene, N.H
State College
Bonuras
Chester
Helene
Bell workers authorize strike vote in AT&T clash
United Press International reports 500000 Bell System workers authorized to strike after rejecting AT&T offer. CWA president Glenn Watts announced the vote as contracts expired, amid broad national labor action and scattered local protests in Charleston West Virginia.
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Communications Workers of America
American Telephone & Telegraph
Bell Telephone
CWA
Glenn E. Watts
National Bargaining Committee
Bell
Charleson
W. Va
Charleston
At&t
Afl-Cio
Bell System
Ohio
United Auto Workers
General Motors Corp
Lakewood
Gasoline shortages seen if summer driving surges
A Senate Interior Committee report prepared by the Library of Congress warns that despite higher supplies after the Arab embargo, demand could outstrip availability this summer. It cites last year’s 10 gallon limits and “no gas today” signs as possible recurrences if motorists drive unrestrained, with the West Coast likely to feel the tightest supply and regional shortages possible in the upper Midwest New England Florida and Hawaii.
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UPI
Senate Interior Committee
Library of Congress
Upper Midwest
New England
Florida
Hawaii
Chile curfew linked to rising birth rate after 1973 coup
Chile's civil registry says births rose after the September 11 1973 curfew and nine months later, while marriages also increased. Official Luis Henriquez Valenzuela notes no exact figures yet but confirms a rise linked to couples spending more time at home due to the curfew in effect in major cities.
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Luis Henriquez Valenzuela
Chile
Civil Registry Office
Henriquez Valenzuela
Kennedy backs admission of women to military academies
Sen Edward M Kennedy urged equal access for women to U S military academies in a letter to Defense Secretary Schlesinger. He cited American constitutional equality and noted the Merchant Marine Academy already accepts applicants. He urged Coast Guard and other service academies to follow and said the policy could remove the need for new legislation.
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Washington
UPI
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
U.S
Kennedy
Defense
James R. Schlesinger
Merchant Marine Academy
Coast Guard Academy
House
Senate
Move starts to bar Navy dumping sludge
Two environmental groups and wealthy residents mobilize to stop the Navy plan to dump 3 million cubic yards of Thames River sludge into Long Island Sound, one mile from Fisher's Island where notable heirs and a Luce descendant have homes, as attorney Albert K Butzel leads NRDC efforts.
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Groton, Conn
UPI
Navy
Long Island Sound
Thames River
Fisher’s Island
Claire Booth Luce
Franklin D. Roosevelt
du Pont
Simmons Mattress
Long Island
Albert K. Butzel
Natural Resources Defense Council
Oil spill cleanup in Long Island Sound cleanup progress continued
About 100 workers are cleaning 300 barrels of oil spilled during transfer from the tanker NEPCO Courageous to a barge off Roanoke Point. Cleanup may take one to three weeks. four private firms are removing the slick and a federal injunction is sought to stop spoil dumping near shore.
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New Haven
Conasta Shipping Ltd
Coast Guard
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