Peres proposes federation uniting Israel and Palestinian lands
Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres urged a federation linking Israel the West Bank and Gaza Strip with a single federal government handling defense and foreign affairs while states manage education police and courts. He called it an honorable solution toward peace and noted Arabs would govern the occupied areas while Jews would lead the federal apparatus. See MIDEAST on back page.
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Shimon Peres
Israel
West Bank
Gaza Strip
Peres
Tel Aviv
Davar
Middle East
Palestine
Egypt
Jordan
Gaza
Mideast
FBI search for killers after ambush at Pine Ridge
Four FBI agents in battle dress hunted in Pine Ridge South Dakota for gunmen who killed two agents during an attempt to serve an arrest warrant. An Indian also died in the Thursday gunfire outside a house as authorities warned against movement along roads and reported mixed accounts of whether the agents were ambushed or shot after exiting their cars. The fallen agents were Jack R. Coler and Ronald A. Williams, both 27 from Los Angeles.
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Oglala
S.D
UPI
FBI
Pine Ridge Sioux Indian Reservation
South Dakota
FBI Today
Richard Kneip
Wounded Knee
Joseph Trimbach
Jack R. Coler
Ronald A. Williams
Los Angeles
Nixon testifies 11 hours before Watergate prosecutors
Former President Richard Nixon voluntarily answered questions for 11 hours over two days to Watergate prosecutors and a grand jury. The session, described as cooperative and voluntary, was conducted in California with a sealed transcript.
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Washington
UPI
Richard M. Nixon
Watergate
U.S
George L. Hart Jr
Nixon
Herbert J. Miller
Miller
John N. Mitchell
H.R. Haldeman
John D. Ehrlichman
Robert C. Marcian
California
Hart’s Court
Henry S. Ruth Jr
Lee Nixon
FBI arrests two as Soviet spies
FBI agents arrested Sarkis O. Paskalian in New York City and Sahag K. Dedeyan in Rockville Maryland on charges of conspiracy to gather classified national defense information for the Soviet Union. Justice Department officials identified both men and filed a criminal complaint and affidavit with a federal judge in New York.
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Washington
UPI
FBI
Soviet Union
Justice Department
Clarence M. Kelley
Sarkis O. Paskalian
New York City
Sahag K. Dedeyan
Rockville
New York
Paskalian
U.S
Baltimore
Dedeyan
Kelley
Lebanon
Soviet Armenia
United States
Petros Petrosyan
Queens
NATO
Eduard B. Charchyan
Charchyan
United Nations
Salmon says Crime grant vote was political
Vermont Governor Thomas P. Salmon condemned the Emergency Board for rejecting a $242,000 federal grant to study white collar and organized crime as a political move. The 4-1 vote against the grant came from four Republican members. Salmon alone supported the proposal, while Attorney General M. Jerome Diamond pressed for the study.
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Legislative Money Committees
M. Jerome Diamond
Vermont
House Appropriations Committee
Emory A. Hebard
Hebard
Salmon
Jerry Diamond
Diamond
Hills
FBI
Health Board delays Vernon impact study
The Vermont Health Board gave Vermont Yankee officials at least three months to prepare a study on the effects of proposed radiation emission standards at the Vernon plant. The delay, urged by Vermont Yankee, comes as the Health Department proposals await board approval for eight months. VPIRG criticized the board for caving to utilities, naming Central Vermont Public Service Corp as the plant's main sponsor with 35 percent control.
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Burlington
VPI
Vermont Health Board
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp
Vernon
State Health Department
Vermont Yankee
The
Health Board
Citizens’ Action Group
Vermont Public Interest Research Group
VPIRG
Scott Skinner
Health Department
Central
Vermont
Skinner
Central Vermont Public Service Corp
Court ruling may release harmless mental patients
The Supreme Court ruled that Kenneth Donaldson was unconstitutionally confined in a Florida mental hospital for 15 years without danger or treatment, prompting a likely wave of releases for non dangerous custodial patients. The ruling shifts focus from custodial warehousing toward community oriented treatment and challenges large institutional care.
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Washington
UPI
Kenneth Donaldson
America
Supreme Court
Donaldson
Florida
Bruce Ennis
Mental Health Law Project
New York Civil Liberties Union
York
Florida State Hospital
Chattahooche
Bertram Brown
National Institute of Mental Health
Gandhi rule becomes absolute in India
Inside National reports a hardening of policy under Gandhi as the Congress rushes through an unemployment extension before the recess. Local items include the Wadsworths recounting Italy eats, a memorial for a New Jersey teacher, and Meris Eggert on summer reading in the library column.
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India
Congress
The
Wadsworths
Italy
New Jersey
Meris Eggert
Pete Horton
Shaftsbury
Cummings
Pownal
Cambridge
Connors
Ashe
Wimbledon
Billie Jean
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Lee Etheridge
Billie
Walloomsac River
North Bennington
Massachusetts
By William Poole
Brent Peacock
Barth Vander Els
Vander Els
Peacock
Mt. Anthony Union High School
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