Bennington Selectmen reject downtown traffic plan
Bennington voters rejected a plan to convert Route 7 into a northbound run from Elm Street to Depot Street and route southbound traffic along Depot and Washington avenues. Business owners warned the scheme would hurt commerce, parking, and tourist activity, with a 50 foot no parking zone at Pleasant and North streets. A public hearing drew about 50 people as critics urged shelving the idea.
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Bennington
Elm Street
Depot Street
Washington Avenue
Pownal
North Street
Pleasant
North Streets
Extremist Attack Hits Lindsey Air Base Wiesbaden
Extremist attackers penetrated Lindsey Air Base in Wiesbaden early today and set fire to two trucks. No injuries reported at the air station. The earlier Tuesday strike hit the U.S. Army V Corps HQ in Frankfurt, injuring sixteen, with leftwing urban guerrilla groups suspected. The Ulrike Meinhof Brigade claimed Tuesday’s action, saying it struck the center of the U.S. imperial occupation army.
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Wiesbaden
West Germany
UPI
Air Force
Lindsey
Frankfurt
U.S. Army
Army
V Corps
Ulrike Meinhof
United Press International
U.S
Europe
Meinhof
Mayo acquitted on third impeachment article in Vermont
Vermont Senate acquitted Mayo on the third impeachment charge alleging breach of duty as a peace officer. The 18 to 12 vote fell short of the two thirds required for conviction in the historic trial, the first impeachment proceeding in nearly two centuries. The case stemmed from off duty barroom incidents Mayo helped resolve last year.
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Mayo
Vermont
House
Donald O’brien
Burlington
Primary night shifts reshaped GOP and Democratic leads
In three small primaries Reagan wins Montana and South Dakota while Ford edges him in Rhode Island. Carter holds a sizable Democratic lead but loses Rhode Island and faces persistent challenges from Udall and Church as delegates accumulate toward the 1,505 needed to clinch the nomination.
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Ronald Reagan
Montana
South Dakota
Ford
Rhode Island
Jimmy Carter
Morris Udall
California
Ohio
New Jersey
Reagan
Kansas City
Edmund G. Brown
Carter
Georgia
Frank Church
Idaho
Brown
Church
Udall
Rogers Morton
Chilean prisoners allege US guards supervised torture
A Providence Evening Bulletin story cites a letter by Chilean political prisoners alleging 1973 74 torture under supervision of US and Brazilian soldiers. Juan Carlos Cuevas Jimenez reports the letter smuggled into the US and signed by long imprisoned inmates at Tres Alamos in Santiago.
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Providence, R.I
UPI
Chile
Juan Carlos Cuevas Jimenez
Rhode Island
Providence Evening Bulletin
United States
Jimenez
Tres Alamos
Santiago
House Ethics Committee votes Hays Investigation
The House Ethics Committee unanimously voted to launch an immediate full scale inquiry into Rep. Wayne Hays amid charges he hired secretary Elizabeth Ray as his mistress. Chairman John Flynt said testimony would be sought and Justice Department aid requested as the panel acts with seven Democrats pressing to strip Hays of chairmanships over the admission of a relationship.
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Washington
UPI
House Ethics Committee
Wayne Hays
James Quillen
D-Tenn
Committee
John Flynt
Dga
Hays
Justice Department
House
Elizabeth Ray
Miss Ray
Capitol Hill
Flynt
Conflict between environmentalists and ski industry eases
RANDOLPH Vermont conference hosted by the Vermont League of Women Voters heard that the era of friction between environmentalists and ski operators is nearing its end. Ralph Deslauriers of Boston Valley Corp. and Schuyler Jackson of the Environmental Board cited a balance and community of interest, with planning aiding long term development. U.S. Forest Service planner Joseph Spasta and Rosamond Sterling of Stowe described cooperation between towns and ski companies, signaling cautious expansion and year round ventures like Bromley’s Alpine slide and Stratton’s tennis center.
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Randolph
Ndustry
Vermont League of Women Voters
Boston Valley Corp
Ralph Deslauriers
Vermont Technical College
Environmental Board
Schuyler Jackson
Vermont
Jackson
Deslauriers
U.S. Forest Service
Joseph Spasta
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Big House
Tom Wicker
Humphrey-Kennedy
Russell Baker
White House
Manchester Selectmen
DEC
Swezey
Pownal School Board
Oldcastle Players
John Page
Patriot
Mt. Anthony CC
John Randolph
Suns
Celtics
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Lorraine Eastman
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Stuttgart
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Olin Teague
D-Ten
Spasta
Stowe
Rosamond
Bromley
Stratton
Sterling
Stratton Mountain
Garland
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