Smith calls for early elections in Rhodesia peace bid
Prime Minister Ian Smith announced parliament would be dissolved today and new elections held August 31, two years early. He outlined an internal settlement excluding militant blacks and Britain’s rejection of one-man-one-vote, urging white Rhodesians to back a five-point plan for a broad-based government including cooperative blacks.
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Ian Smith
Salisbury, Rhodesia
UPI
Smith
Rhodesia
Senate backs Carter plan to drop B1 bomber
The Senate endorsed President Carter's choice to halt the B1 bomber, favoring a cruise missile and upgraded B52s. The vote 59 to 36 cut $1.4 billion from the defense bill earmarked for five BIs, though the House still supports funds for the program, and negotiations loom. Senate leaders praised the move, with support from key Republicans including Tower and Goldwater.
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Washington
UPI
Carter
Senate
John Stennis
D-Miss
Stennis
House
Senate House
Milton Young
Appropriations Committee
John Tower
R-Tex
Armed Services Committee
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Bis
Forest Fire Threatens Katahdin Near Mount Katahdin
Reinforcements were sent as a raging forest fire near Mount Katahdin threatens the 5,267 foot peak and the Appalachian Trail. About 75 men fought the blaze Monday, doubled to staff five bulldozers and 11 in use as winds shift. Campers were ordered to evacuate and air resources joined 1,200 to 1,500 acres burned in the 201,000 acre Baxter State Park in Maine.
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Millinocket
Maine
UPI
Mount Katahdin
State Forestry Bureau
Mount
Katahdin
Albert C. Willis
The
Forestry Bureau
Percival Baxter
Bennington Banner Classifieds Details and Rates
Bennington Banner publishes daily except Sundays and holidays at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont. It provides contact numbers for classified ads and delivery options with monthly and mail subscription rates. The paper is a United Press International and New York Times News Service subscriber.
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Bennington Banner
Main St
Bennington
Banner Publishing Corp
United Press International
New York Times
Landon Associates, Inc
Drought Devastates Farms Across States in 1977 Heat Wave
United Press International reports a nationwide drought with dramatic crop losses from Georgia to California. Farmers burned corn in Dawson, fish died in the Neuse River, and widespread foreclosures loom as heat persists. California forecasts shrink losses to 1.5 billion, while irrigation and cloud seeding efforts continue amid scarce rain.
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Kenneth R. Clark
United Press International
Dawson
Bobby Locke
North Carolina
Neuse
Kansas
Iowa
California
Stanley Grant
James Shaver
Georgia
Locke
Gordon Snow
State Food and Agriculture Department
New York Endures 100 Degree Heat After Blackout
New York City swelters at 100 degrees as a heatwave strains power and water. Consolidated Edison asks for conservation while the water commissioner reimposes a shortage alert. Looting arrests rise with prisoners jailed and one death blamed on cirrhosis. Legal Aid alleges rights violations amid arraignment delays. Insurance losses reach 30 million on-site. total business losses near 1 billion.
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New York
UPI
New York City
Central Park
National Weather Service
Consolidated Edison
Charles Samowitz
Brooklyn Criminal Court
Legal Aid Society
Society
Michael Russek
The
American Insurance Association
Teng Hsiao-ping Reinstated To Top Chinese Posts
Kyodo News from Tokyo reports wall posters in Peking say Teng Hsiao-ping, 75, has been restored to all offices he held before his purge. The reinstatement covers vice chairman of the Communist Party, vice premier, vice chairman of the military commission, and chief of the general staff, after earlier purges in 1968 and 1976.
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TPI
Peking
Teng Hsiao-ping
Communist Party
Kyodo
Teng
Chou Enlai
Military Commission
People’s Liberation Army
Ministry of
China
Chou
Ford
Hua Kuo-feng
T’ien Anmen
Armed Orces
Turner says error in arms sale risk cited to Iran
CIA chief Stansfield Turner allegedly misjudged risks in a $1.23 billion sale of seven AWACS to Iran and acted without coordinating with NSC State and Defense. The dispute over centralizing intelligence functions pits Turner against Defense Secretary Brown, with the plan under White House review.
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Washington
UPI
CIA
Stansfield Turner
Iran
General Accounting Office
Turner
National Security Council
State and Defense Departments
Defense Department
Central Intelligence
Pentagon
National Reconnaissance Office
National Security Agency
Defense
Harold Brown
White House
Carter
L A judge gives men life for spying
A federal judge sentenced Andrew Dalton Lee to life in prison for selling top secret CIA documents to the Russians. He faced possible death. the judge stressed espionage is a grave crime. Lee, 25, and Christopher Boyce, 24, were the first spies for Russia convicted in a major U S trial.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Andrew Dalton Lee
CIA
U.S. District Court
Robert Kelleher
Lee
Palos Verdes Estates
Justice Department
Christopher John Boyce
Russia
Brand memory limits favor autos and insurers, study says
Research by a top advertising agency finds people struggle to name more than seven brands in any product category. The exception is automobiles and insurance, where more brands can be recalled. For new brands, older brands must be forgotten to free memory.
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United Press International
Atlanta, Ga
UPI
Folger Cuts Coffee Prices to $3.48 a Pound
Folger Coffee Co. the nations second largest roaster cut wholesale vacuum coffee by 20 cents per pound and instant coffee by 2 cents an ounce effective immediately. Vacuum price now 3.48 per pound instant 10 ounce jar 5.25. Folger cites declines in imported green coffee and overall industrywide drop in consumer coffee sales.
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Folger
Cincinnati
UPI
Folger Coffee Co
Procter & Gamble Co
U.S
Detroit Strike Hits City Services Again Amid Heat Wave
About 1,200 Teamsters municipal workers walked off at 12:01 a.m. in Detroit leaving garbage in streets during a 90 degree heat wave. Union rejected a city plan for 4 percent yearly raises for three years without cost of living raises. Previously, July 6, 7,000 fellow workers honored picket lines, shutting many city services.
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Detroit
UPI
Teamsters
Council 77
American Federation of State
Department of Public Works
Summer paperback picks from Susan Hoffman at Bennington Bookshop
Susan Hoffman, Book Department Manager at Bennington Bookshop, highlights popular paperbacks for summer reading. She cites Taylor Caldwell, Raymond Chandler, John Jakes, Harold Robbins, and Harlequin romances as ideal beach reads. Hoffman notes her 1972 State University of New York history degree.
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Taylor Caldwell
Raymond Chandler
John Jakes
Susan Hoffman
Bennington
State U. of New York
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