Seabrook occupation yields mass protest arrests across region
About 2,000 demonstrators gathered at Seabrook nuclear site as 1,200 were arrested on trespass charges after a 24 hour occupation. Four Superior Court judges processed roughly 1,000 detainees by 10 am. Demonstrators were housed in National Guard armories. hearings are set as bail issues are resolved and May dates targeted for court.
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Portsmouth
N.H
UPI
New England
Massachusetts
Seabrook
Hampton District Court
Protesters rally near Seabrook plant in New Hampshire
More than 1,000 anti-nuclear demonstrators gathered in Hampton near the Seabrook site as part of a broadened protest against nuclear power. Organizers linked the action to national concerns, while authorities warned of legal consequences for trespass. Bail was set for some, with many protesters refusing to answer about future occupation plans.
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Hampton, N.H
UPI
Seabrook
Seacoast
Helen Caldicutt
Australia
Meldrim Thomson
Paul A. Doyon
Clamshell Alliance
Public Service Co
Thomson
Doyon
Protest organizer vows Vermont Yankee shutdown after Seabrook
Harvey Wasserman of Montague Massachusetts who helped mobilize the anti Seabrook protest says he will mount a similar action to close the Vermont Yankee plant. He notes groundwork will start after Seabrook is resolved as nearly two thousand people marched Saturday against the Seabrook project. Wasserman lives about twenty miles south of the Vermont Yankee site and regards the plant as more real to him than Seabrook.
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Waarsrman
Here
Vermont Yankee
Seabrook
British troops massed in Northern Ireland for strike crisis
British forces moved to 15 200 in Northern Ireland to deter a militant Protestant strike led by Ian Paisley and the Ulster Unionist Action Council. Roy Mason failed to halt the walkout planned from midnight as Loyalist groups threaten mass intimidation while authorities vow to keep essential services running and guard Paisley amid threats.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
UPI
Roy Mason
Mason
Ian Paisley
Earnest Baird
Ulster Unionist Action Council
Jim Smyth
Ulster Workers Council
Ulster Defense Association
Ulster Volunteer Force
Paisley
Britain
Royal Green Jackets
United Unionist Action Council
Ernest Baird
Bennington man dies in Searsburg car crash
A 20 year old Bennington man, Patrick J. Shea of 8 Caroline Drive, died in a one car crash Sunday morning in Searsburg after his CJ 7 Jeep left the highway and overturned down an embankment. Shea, a Mt. Anthony Union High School soccer leader and Vermont Hardwoods employee, was found at the scene and pronounced dead. He was born June 18, 1957, and survived by his parents, three brothers, two sisters, and numerous relatives. Funeral arrangements are handled by Mahar and Son Funeral Home with memorials suggested to the Vermont Heart Association. Burial will be in Park Lawn Cemetery after a Tuesday church service at St. Francis de Sales.
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Searsburg
Bennington
Patrick J. Shea
Caroline Drive
George Shea
Mr. Shea
Bennington County
Vermont
Mt. Anthony Union High School
St. Francis de Sales Church
George
Virginia
Heaslip) Shea
St. Francis de Sales Academy
Mt. Anthony
Michael
Readsboro
Brian
University of Vermont
Thomas
Mary
Boston
Aileen
Burlington
Mahar & Son Funeral Home
Vermont Heart Association
Park Lawn Cemetery
Nixon Defends Containment Over Cover Up in Frost Interview
Richard Nixon maintained he sought to contain the Watergate crisis rather than cover it up, in a four program interview with David Frost. Time and Newsweek previewed the talks noting inconsistencies and a tense exchange over the CIA and FBI inquiry.
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Richard M. Nixon
David Frost
Time
Newsweek
United States
Nixon
Frost
White House
Central Intelligence Agency
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Search Continues for Family Trapped in Restaurant Blast
Burlington authorities press on as a restaurant owner John Pappas 54 and his children Lisa 16 Dana 12 remain missing after a basement office blast at the Black Cat Restaurant on Bank Street. Mary Pappas 44 injured, several nearby structures including the State Theater and Women’s Health Center damaged. firemen from Burlington and nearby towns battled the blaze for nearly two hours before the building was torn down.
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John Pappas
South Burlington
Lisa Pappas
Dana Pappas
Black Cat Restaurant
Mt Anthony union budget up 8.33 percent for 77-78
Voters face a 3.53 million Mt Anthony Union budget for the 1977 78 year with an 8.33 percent rise over the current budget. Five districts' assessments will shift unevenly with Shaftsbury up 20 percent and Bennington down 8 16 percent. tax implications depend on Grand Lists. The finance committee cut departmental requests and warned fixed costs like electricity and heating are rising.
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Mt. Anthony Union
Mt. Anthony
Shaftsbury
Pownal
Woodford
Bennington
North Bennington
Mittee
Inside Out Nation and Local News Highlights
Nation leaders strike a new federal code agreement while local Rotarians hear about life in Pakistan. Page notes mention a broad editorial on energy, and a roundup of county topics including honor rolls, road and sewage plans, and a fire school. Page 9 previews FDA hearings and Page 10 11 cover sports results and tryouts. Equality for women in Cuban Constitution and clean coal from South are listed as general items.
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Dorset
Arlington
Pownal
FDA
Taeirle
Flyers
Celtic
NBA
Panthers
Salem
South
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