Reagan Leads Ford In Delegates After Triple Primary Wins
United Press International reports Reagan defeats Ford in Indiana Georgia and Alabama securing a delegate edge, while Carter extends his Democratic nomination push with wins in Georgia Indiana and the District of Columbia. Reagan vows momentum to deny Ford a first ballot victory in Lincoln Nebraska.
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Ford
Carter
Alabama
United Press International
Ronald Reagan
Indiana
Georgia
Jimmy Carter
District of Columbia
Lincoln
Neb
Texas
House
John Rhodes
White House
Rhodes
New York
Pennsylvania
Kansas City
West Virginia
Nebraska
George Wallace
Wallace
Jackson
McCormack
FBI secret war report fuels COINTELPRO probe
Senate intelligence panel releases a 77 page staff report detailing COINTELPRO from 1956 to 1971. The FBI targeted groups from Communists to white hate groups and black civil rights organizations, approving 2370 actions. Main targets included Communist Party USA Socialist Workers Party Ku Klux Klan American Nazi Party Black Nationalist groups and the New Left. The panel notes the possibility of COINTELPRO like activities continuing in other forms and quotes former FBI official William Sullivan on the methods used.
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Washington
UPI
Senate Intelligence Committee
FBI
Cointelpro
Ku Klux Klan
Communist Party, USA
Socialist Workers Party
American Nazi Party
New Left
William C. Sullivan
J. Edgar Hoover
Merger off Sprague stock drops in Boston Cabot deal ends
North Adams based Sprague Electric Co and Cabot Corp of Boston cancel their merger by mutual consent. The four executives announced Charpie will rejoin Sprague board. Wall Street moved Cabot higher to 24 while Sprague fell to 9.42 as plans to acquire Sprague as a subsidiary were dropped.
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Sprague Electric Co
Cabot Corp
Boston
Mutual
Neil W. Welch
Sprague
Robert C. Sprague
Louis W. Cabot
Robert A. Charpie
Cabot
Charpie
Sprague Board
Wall Street
Snelling vows no cuts to basic needs in budget plan
NORTHFIELD Vermont Republican gubernatorial hopeful Richard Snelling told Central Vermont Rotarians that cutting state waste should precede reductions in spending on basic needs. He warned next year's budgets will seek 30 to 35 million more than 1977, with sharp asks for school aid and higher education. He urged tuition restraint and more scholarships, while signaling increases for state employees’ pay, law enforcement, development, dairy marketing and special education, all subject to waste cuts first.
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Northfield
UPI
Richard Snelling
Vermont
Snelling
University of Vermont
Vermont State Colleges
Shelburne
Continental Grain pleads no contest to 50 counts
Continental Grain Co pleaded no contest to a 50 count indictment and paid a 500000 dollar fine after being charged with cheating on grain shipments to foreign buyers. The grand jury said the firm manipulated scales at its Westwego Louisiana export elevator to defraud buyers.
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New Orleans
UPI
Continental Grain Co
Westwego
U.S. District Court
Frederick J. R. Heebe
Mismanagement charges denied by agency head
Thomas Hahn, head of OCCSA, rejects allegations as gossip and rumors in response to a push for a federal audit by 14 state representatives. He says audits show OCCSA is well managed, with a $4 million budget, over 400 employees, serving low income residents across Orleans Caledonia and Essex counties, and a board committee will report next month.
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Newport
UPI
Orleans County Council of Social Agencies
OCCSA
Thomas Hahn
Hahn
Orleans
Caledonia
Essex
Our Town Dorset Playhouse show aids BBS fund
Dorset Playhouse staging Our Town to benefit the Brattleboro Benefit Society fund while local youth issues draw concern in Hoosick Falls. Hoosick Falls leaders discuss youth drinking, and Van Surdam plans a notable donation to HFCS. Manchester okays 1000 for Green Mountain Industrial Tour as Shaftsbury eyes a new fire truck.
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Dorset Playhouse
BBS Fund
Hoosick Falls
van Surdam
HFCS
Manchester
Green Mountain
Shaftsbury
Bennington Selectmen weigh revenue hits and local projects
Bennington officials report a $4,000 budget deficit after a $19,500 revenue sharing shortfall, a shortfall Vermont towns commonly face this year. Burlington, Rutland, and Brattleboro lose large amounts while Vergennes gains nearly $30,000. The board approves $41,000 to widen Beech Street, urges keeping $350,000 for highway improvements, and plans cemetery work for Memorial Day.
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Bennington
Vermont
Ronald Higgins
Paul Sheridan
Beech Street
Main Street
South Branch Street
State Transportation Board
Harwood Hill
John Simson
Selectmen
Louis C. Savelas
John Kittel
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Joel Whittemore
Anthony
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Great Barrington
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D-Idaho
Lee
Continental Grain
Bunge Corp
Garnack Grain Co. Inc
Archer-Daniels-Midland Co
Decatur
Ill
In the Nation
Mary Hartman
Rec Department
Salmon
Leach Farm
Rupert
MAU
Manchester Country Club
Ashe
Solomon
U.S
Mark Miller
Paul W. Bohne III
Bohne
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