Vermont Legislature Faces Final Week Backlog in 1970 Session
Vermont's 180 lawmakers return to desks with six days left in the 1970 session facing a mountain of bills. Key issues include a state employee pay raise and Senate environmental control measures, plus governance reorganization proposals favored by Governor Deane C. Davis. The interplay between GOP leadership and Democratic and conservative opposition could shape Davis's reelection bid.
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Montpelier
UPI
Vermont
General Assembly
House
Deane C. Davis
Davis
Senate
Burlington
Lake Champlain
Air Traffic Curtailed By Controllers Sick-Out
Air traffic controllers intensified a sick-out at major East centers, causing flight cancellations and delays while FAA notes mixed results. About 25 percent of the 21 big centers were off work over six days. PATCO cites four and a half hour delays at New York Chicago Los Angeles. PATCO seeks better conditions and exclusive bargaining rights. airlines seek court injunction and damages.
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United Press International
Federal Aviation Administration
FAA
Professional
PATCO
New York
Chicago
Los Angeles
Air Transport Association
Federal District Court
New York City
Cleveland
Denver
Kansas City
Congress Resumes Desegregation Debate This Week
Washington reports Congress returns after Easter with desegregation on the agenda. Carswell nomination maneuvers continue as a Senate vote on sending it back to committee looms. A postal pay raise remains stalled as negotiators seek a deal before final action.
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House
House Appropriations Committee
Government Operations Committee
Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
G. Harrold Carswell
Congress
Carswell
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
John Sherman Cooper
R-Ky
Senate
John Stennis
D-Miss
Stennis
Abraham A. Ribicoff
Dconn
North
Ribicoff
Inside Columnist Protests Subversion of Human Rights
An Inside column by Gerald Raftery denounces subversion of a basic human right in a sharp op ed. The piece argues against stealth actions eroding fundamental freedoms and calls for vigilance against creeping limits on rights.
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Gerald Raftery
Turkish quakes push death toll toward two thousand
Western Turkey endures three more powerful earthquakes and boiling floods after Saturday’s main quake. Gediz and Kutahya Province devastations widen with 1,000 to 2,000 feared dead. Plague fears rise amid contaminated water. Demirel tours Gediz directing aid and search.
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Gediz
Turkey
UPI
Emmet
Bursa
Istanbul
U.S
Ankara
Izmir
Iran
Key
Gediz Creek
Hayrettin Nikipoglu
Kutahya
Snow Brings White Easter Across Atlantic Coast
A coastal storm pushed snow from Central Pennsylvania to Southern New England and inland to western Pennsylvania. Six to twelve inches fell, marking the snowiest Easter on record as winds eased and the system moved out to sea.
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Atlantic Coast
Pennsylvania
New England
Albany
N.Y
Empire State
Providence
R.I
New York City
New York
Boston
Washington
Pittsburgh
Hartford
West Virginia
New Jersey
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Maine
Carolinas
Youngstown
Ohio
Cushing Calls Amnesty for Vietnam War Protesters
Cardinal Richard Cushing on Easter from his hospital bed urges release of young people jailed for protesting the Vietnam War and draft resistance. He describes the times as troubled and urges clemency for those jailed for peaceful dissent.
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Putnam Square
Boston
API
Richard Cushing
Holy Cross
Casey Wins GOP Battle In Rensselaer County
In Troy New York Joseph F Casey is reinstated as chair of the Rensselaer County Republican Committee after a court ruling that invalidated his ouster. Justice Franklin Mahoney voided last December's removal and said Casey remains chairman until a successor is chosen at the June county committee meeting.
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Casey
Rensselaer County
Troy
N.Y
Rensselaer County Republican Committee
Joseph F. Casey
Supreme Court
Franklin Mahoney
George F. Nuttall
Justice Mahoney
GOP
Nuttall
Gambling experts weigh born optimists and losers in a cultural study
At McCullough Mansion North Bennington Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences held a Saturday session. Economists anthropologists and a psychologist examined gambling as culture. A Cornell anthropologist and Green Mountain Park GM argued versus a chance only view with racecourse anecdotes.
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McCullough
North
Bennington
Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences
Vermont
Vincent J. Bartimo
Green Mountain Park
John M. Roberts
Cornell
Naval War College
Newport
R.I
Bartimo
Roberts
Pownal
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Einar Michaelson
Mt. Anthony Union High School
Picasso
Guernica
By Rodney Clarke
Appropriations
Luther Hackett
South Burlington
John Hancock
Hardwick
T. Garry Buckley
Senate Natural Resources Committee
Senate Appropriations Committee
Stamford
Akcaalan
Sarahanli
Sulleyman Demirel
Cushing
By Tyler Resch
South Sea
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