Cambodian capital coverage wins reporter second prize
New York Times correspondent Sydney H. Schanberg earned the Bob Considine Memorial Award for Best Reporting from the Overseas Press Club of America for his Phnom Penh coverage. He filed 8,000 words from Thailand after a 250 mile trek, detailing the city’s fall as residents awaited capture.
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New York
UPI
Phnom Penh
New York Times
Sydney H. Schanberg
Overseas Press Club of America
Bob Considine
Schanberg
Thailand
Press Club
Jonathon Randall
Washington Post
Paul Vogle
United Press International
Randall
Lebanon
Vogle
da Nang
OPC
Joseph C. Harsch
Lebanon Seizure of Power Threatens Beirut Ceasefire
Heavy artillery and street fighting around Beirut seaport threaten to delay Parliament’s Saturday session to elect a new president. Leftists demand Syrian troop removal. 90 killed and 120 wounded in latest round. Reuters reports indicate ongoing clashes and breached cease-fire agreements as factions vie for control in Lebanon.
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Beirut
Lebanon
UPI
Suleiman Franjieh
Franjieh
Kamal Jumblatt
Jumblatt
Rashid Karami
Pulitzer winners accept with dignified silence
Pulitzer winner Saul Bellow said he would accept Humboldt’s Gift with dignified silence as he spoke to Don Bruckner of the University of Chicago. In his book, Humboldt mocks the prize calling it a dummy publicity award for crooks and illiterates.
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Chicago
UPI
Saul Bellow
Humboldt
Bellow
Boston
Stanley Forman
Back Bay
Forman
Tiare Jones
Diane Bryant
James T. Reid
Horgan wins Pulitzer for Lamy of Santa Fe biography
Middletown based writer Paul Horgan, 72, earns his second Pulitzer for Lamy of Santa Fe about Jean Baptiste Lamy, first archbishop of the Southwest. He spent 20 years writing it, hoping more readers will discover the book he trimmed down from a longer manuscript.
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Middletown
Conn
UPI
Paul Horgan
Horgan
Lamy
Sante Fe
Jean Baptiste Lamy
American Southwest
Rio Grande
Wesleyan University
Boston Extended Forecast Sees Clouds And Showers
The National Weather Service predicts cloudy weather Thursday through Saturday in New England with a chance of showers on Friday. Daytime highs reach the 60s in the south and the high 50s in the north. Overnight lows range from the 40s in the south to the 30s and 40s in the north.
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Boston
UPI
New England
National Weather Service
Ford weighs veto as House passes FEC reform bill
President Ford faces a decision on signing or vetoing a bill to restructure the Federal Election Commission and restore federal matching funds. The House approval, 291 to 81 with bipartisan support, followed by Senate action, shapes campaign finance dynamics as candidates contend with funds and authority restored. Ford may deem a veto futile if the Senate concurs, given a strong fundraising field and party divides.
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Washington
UPI
Ford
Congress
House
Federal Election Commission
Senate
Fred Harris
Henry Jackson
FEC
Commission
Supreme Court
Indiana
John J. Rhodes
White House
Ronald Reagan
Organized Labor
Fair trial impossible says Harrises' lawyer
The Harrises and Patricia Hearst faced another legal setback as Judge Jesse Curtis rejected claims of prejudicial leaks and refused a gag order. Rosenbaum of the ACLU protested what he called open season on the Harrises. The couple, scheduled for trial June 1 on kidnapping robbery and assault, face disputed impacts from media coverage while Hearst undergoes psychiatric evaluation in San Diego ahead of federal sentencing.
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Los Angeles
UPI
William
Emily Harris
Patricia Hearst
Symbionese Liberation Army
Harrises
Mark Rosenbaum
American Civil Liberties Union
U.S. District Court
Jesse Curtis
Justice Department
Curtis
Rosenbaum
Miss Hearst
San Diego
Betty Ford and Nancy Reagan Split Over Equal Rights Amendment
Indianapolis coverage shows Betty Ford backing a constitutional amendment to guarantee equal rights under law for all, while Nancy Reagan opposes it citing potential mischief. Ford engages crowds and faces tough questions at a news conference, whereas Reagan prefers one on one interviews and downplays comparisons to Ford as she campaigns for her husband.
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Indianapolis
UPI
Betty Ford
Nancy Reagan
Reagan
Ford
Indiana
Computer aided Soliah defense debut in court
In Sacramento California UPI reports the courtroom debut of computer aided defense strategies for Steven Soliah Patricia Hearst's alleged underground lover. A juror survey from the district fed into a computer to guide jury selection and outcome. Soliah was acquitted by an eight four member jury of the April 21 1975 holdup in which a customer was killed.
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Sacramento
Calif
UPI
Steven Sol Iah
Patricia Hearst
Soliah
Sheldon Otis
Miss Hearst
Rolling Stone Magazine
Otis
Neil Bush
Detroit
SLA
Bush
Joan Little
North Carolina
Attica
New York
Steven Soliah
Classified advertising rate card for Bennington Banner
The Bennington Banner publishes daily except Sunday and holidays at 425 Main St. Bennington Vermont. It lists home delivery by carrier 15 cents and subscription rates by mail within a 50 mile radius and Vermont, plus elsewhere in the U.S. with 3 month, 6 month, and 1 year options. Second class postage paid at Bennington Vermont.
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Bennington Banner
Main St
Bennington
The
Banner Publishing Corp
United Press International
New York Times
Matthews, Shannon & Cullen, Inc
Vermont
U.S
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Bruce Dunning
Mike Marriott
Mai van Duc
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Boston Herald American
Dan Connolly
Mexico
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Pulitzer
Buffalo, N.Y
Yale University
R.W.B. Lewis
Edith Wharton
Yale
Lewis
Italy
Bill
Sen
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R-Conn
Athing & Gould Jewelers
Kennington
Betty
Nancy
Rieke
Monument Plaza Shopping Center
Bennington Banner Telephone
Washington, D.C
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Walker
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