Workers buy mine to save operations
MONTPELIER UPI Yesterday John Lupien a maintenance supervisor for GAF Corp which ran an asbestos mine in Lowell Lamoille County is now part owner of that mine. He compared the milestone to a major league pitcher winning a world series game after signing papers Wednesday. The move creates one of the nation’s largest employee owned industrial businesses. Thirteen months earlier Lupien and about 177 coworkers faced a critical decision.
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GAF
Federal Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Vermont Asbestos Group, Inc
Lupien
Thomas Dent
Donald Webster
VAG
Vermont Industrial Development Authority
Arlington High School debate over Fisher staff cuts sparks petition
Arlington Memorial High School drew a record crowd at a Town Meeting as teachers and parents debated a potential reduction of one elementary teaching position at Fisher School. The board has not stated a definite plan, fueling concerns the study was exploratory and aimed at staff reduction.
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Arlington
Arlington Memorial High School
Fisher Elementary School
Ira Manross
Fisher
Manross
Arnold Wilcox
Orrin Griffis
Rebels Hit Pochentong Ammunition Dump Amid Vietnam Conflict
Rebel gunners fired a rocket into a storage area at Pochentong airport causing a two hour halt in the U.S. airlift to Phnom Penh. Air traffic resumed at dusk, while government forces pushed toward Tool Leap, with heavy airstrikes killing about 110 rebels. Fighting clashed along the Prek Phneou to Docum Ampil corridor as rebels attacked government troops.
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Phnom Penh
UPI
Pochentong
U.S
Cambodia
Tool Leap
Tuel Leap
Prek Phneou
7Th Division
Docum Ampil
Thieu Orders Nationwide Mobilization War Drives in Vietnam
Saigon reports a broad Communist offensive extending into the Mekong Delta with five hamlets overrun and three district capitals under heavy attack. A bus bombing near Tra On district killed 18 civilians and wounded 20. An Air Vietnam flight was likely downed by antiaircraft fire near Pleiku, with 26 aboard killed. The government ordered nationwide mobilization for males 17 to 35 as battles spread toward Ba Tri and Ba Xuyen provinces. Government air forces knocked out tanks and damaged others near Parrot's Beak and Dau Ha district capitals.
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Saigon
UPS
Mekong
South Vietnam
Tra
Air Vietnam
Pleiku
Central Highlands
Ba Tri
Ba Xuyen
le Trung Hien
Hien
Dau Ha
Vietnam
Slow progress in Mideast talks with Sadat in Egypt
Secretary Kissinger said talks with President Sadat on an Egyptian Israeli accord were slow but steady. He expected to report progress next week after another shuttle between Israel and Egypt. He noted a core issue remains Egypt's pledge to end the state of war in exchange for further Sinai withdrawals.
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Aswan
Egypt
UPI
Henry A. Kissinger
Anwar Sadat
Kissinger
Nile
Israel
Sinai
U.S
Hafez Assad
Sadat
Golan Heights
Vermont House Defeats Fund Merger Plan Front Page
The Vermont House rejected an attempt to reconsider an 80-67 vote that defeated Gov. Salmon's plan to merge the Highway Fund and General Fund. A 64-75 roll call blocked reconsideration amid claims of lobbying pressure and fears of agency raids on a combined fund. Nearly all Republicans opposed, with 18 Democrats voting against the merger.
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Salmon
Cambodian aid request defeated in House committee
The House Foreign Affairs Committee rejected 18 to 15 a proposal to send Cambodia 135.6 million dollars in emergency military and economic aid for the next three months, dealing a blow to Ford administration plans for 222 million this fiscal year. Rep. Dupont planned another motion to bring the vote to the full House.
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Washington
UPI
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Cambodia
Lee Hamilton
D-Ind
Ford Administration
Pierre S. Dupont
R-Del
Mansfield reluctant to seek peace talks with Sihanouk
Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield said he is reluctant to personally pursue negotiations for Cambodia peace with exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk. He would consider doing so if President Ford asked, rejecting a blind pledge while noting his long friendship with Sihanouk and the delicate constitutional limits.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Cambodia
Norodom Sihanouk
Mansfield
Ford
Peking
Sihanouk
Sen
Henry Jackson
D-Wash
Jackson
White House
Phnom Penh
Congress
Richard Nixon
Henry Kissinger
Kissinger
United States
CIA
State Department
Weatherman Suspect Swinton Nabbed in Vermont Health Store
Patricia Swinton 33, linked to the 1969 NYC bombings, was arrested in Brattleboro while stacking peanut butter jars. Bail set at 500000, extradition to Rutland planned. She faced charges of conspiring to destroy government property, amid prior Weatherman cases and a Vermont commune backdrop.
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Brattleboro
UPI
FBI
Patricia Elizabeth Swinton
New York City
Danny Wight
Chicago
Wight
Barry Stein
Green Mountain Health Center
Miss Swinton
Good Life Health Food
Main Street
U.S. District Court
Rutland
James Holden
Swinton
Holden
Barry Griffith
Griffith
North Bennington
Charles Griffith
Edwin Griffith
Manchester
New York
Rikers
Chase Manhattan Bank
RCA
General Motors
Packer’s Corners Farm
Guilford
House approves nearly six billion dollar job bill
The House passed a 5.9 billion emergency employment measure in a 313 to 113 vote, surpassing President Ford’s request by about 4 billion. The plan funds public service jobs and summer youth programs among several existing authorizations, with Ford backing 2 billion and possibly vetoing the rest. James T. Lynn indicated the budget could be vetoed as it exceeds administration goals.
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Subcommittee On Special Investigations
Cambodia
Robert Ingersoll
Ford
United States
Washington
Bribery trial of Sen Gurney opens amid uncertainty
Inside National reports the bribery trial of Senator Gurney has begun with no clear winner in the NH Senate race as both sides face debt stalemate. Local notes cover spring dog licenses and District Court news.
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Gurney
N.H. Senate
District Court
Kit Foster
James Reston
MAU Bulletin
Dorset
Arlington
Lions Club
Texas
NIT
Pudge Fisk
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