Manpower director charged with lewd acts with youths
Alan B. Prager, 26, director of the Champlain Valley Work and Training Program, pleaded not guilty to six counts of lewd and lascivious conduct involving three Bennington area boys aged 9 to 13. He was arrested Sunday at his Dewey Street home. bail set at 2000 with psychiatric evaluation and no contact with victims.
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Alan B. Prager
Champlain Valley
Bennington
Prager
Dewey St
George M. Fienberg
James B. Toolan
Rockefeller Commission Finds CIA Daed Not Major
Vice President Nelson Rockefeller summarized the five month inquiry, saying the CIA broke the law but was not guilty of mass illegal domestic spying. The panel will urge tighter internal rules and new laws to curb domestic spying while endorsing strong foreign intelligence operations.
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UPI
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Central Intelligence Agency
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Rockefeller
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California
Ronald Reagan
CBS
Reagan
Nelson Rockefeller
John Kennedy
Fidel Castro
Ford tumbles at Salzburg airport in greeting mishap
President Ford laughed off a pratfall at Salzburg airport as he descended from his plane, saying he felt great after eight hours sleep. A White House aide cited fatigue and a knee condition for the stumble, while Ford brushed off the incident and greeted a crowd of about 600.
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Austria
UPI
Ford
William Lukash
White House
University of Michigan
Air Force
Robert Blake
Anwar Sadat
Egypt
Blake
Betty Ford
GOP honors Sen Harwood for 1976 campaign courting
In Bennington at Mt Anthony Country Club about 150 gathered as Republicans thanked former state Sen Madeline B Harwood of Manchester with a plaque and a gold clock. Frank Smallwood of Norwich teased a possible 1976 gubernatorial team while noting Harwood’s U.S. House bid last year. Buckley hailed her honesty and work and Buckley urged she keep her options open as leaders sent best wishes from Sen Stafford and Rep Jeffords.
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Mt. Anthony Country Club
Madeline B. Harwood
Manchester
Frank Smallwood
Norwich
Harwood
T. Garry Buckley
Smallwood
Vermont faces choice on enforcing Safe Water Act
MONTPELIER The Salmon administration must decide this summer whether Vermont will assume primary enforcement of the Safe Water Drinking Act of 1974. A state take over would expand monitored water systems from about 400 to roughly 4,000, necessitating more staff and facilities and possibly new legislation. If Vermont declines, the EPA will enforce the act locally.
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Montpelier
Salmon Administration
Congress
State Health Department
Vermont
Federal Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Health Department
Kenneth Stone
National Sanitation Foundation
Indians seize Vermont land near border
Local report notes Indian seizure of Vermont land near the border under an old claim. The piece appears in the Local section alongside other regional notes and community updates from Page 3.
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TRB
Godfrey Sperling
Europe
Ford
Kissinger
Shaftsbury Garden Club
Pownal Little League
Danby
Ford continues aid to Egypt
In Salzburg Ford and Sadat wrapped two days of talks with pledges of renewed U S economic aid to Egypt and a plan toward permanent peace. Rabin announced Israel would cut forces on the Sinai front, while Ford signaled future shuttle diplomacy, and a June Washington meeting with Rabin was planned to refine the Middle East strategy.
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Austria
UPI
Ford
Middle East
Egypt
Anwar Sadat
U.S
United States
Sadat
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Jerusalem
Ford-Sadat
Israel
Sinai
Yitzhak Rabin
Suez Canal
U.S. Middle East
Rabin
Washington
Henry A. Kissinger
Israel trims troops along Suez Canal
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin announced Israel will cut its Sinai frontline forces by more than half as a goodwill move to Egypt ahead of the Suez Canal reopening. Troop levels, missiles, artillery, tanks, and other units will be reduced, with full thinning completed by canal reopening day.
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UPI
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Sinai
Egypt
Suez Canal
Yitzhak Rabin
Middle East
Rabin
Desert
Rival black nationalists clash in Rhodesia deaths and damage
In Salisbury clashes between police and about 2000 rival black nationalists left 11 demonstrators dead and 18 injured. Security forces withdrew patrols as areas calmed. shops burned and wrecked cars were cleared. The fighting pitted ZANU militants against ZAPU rivals near an African National Council meeting before talks with Premier Ian Smith.
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UPS
Zimbabwe African National Union
Rhodesia
Zimbabwe African Peoples Union
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African National Council
Ian Smith
Lee Rhodesia
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Barbara Crowell
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