Windmill power forces Con Ed to buy city energy
New York State Public Service Commission ordered Consolidated Edison to purchase all excess electricity from a rooftop two kilowatt windmill at 519 East 11th Street in Manhattan. The rule creates a special windmill rate and allows two windmills per Con Edison system, with surcharges and safety equipment considerations.
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New York State
Con Ed
City
Albany
Consolidated Edison
Public Service Commission
York City
East 11Th Street
Manhattan
Con Edison
PSC
L1th Street Cooperative
Ted Finch
Finch
Don Edison
11Th Street
Condison
France reports safe method for reactor fuel export
France announced a new process for lightly enriched uranium fuel that powers reactors but cannot be used for weapons. Officials say the method limits weapon proliferation while allowing export potential and future sharing with other nations.
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Paul Lewis
N.Y. Times
Paris
Valery Giscard d
London
Carter
Salzburg
Austria
French Atomic Energy Commissariat
France
United States
Soviet Union
Inflation Jump Sparks Fear of Higher Prices in April
Wholesale prices rose 1.1 percent in April marking a second straight monthly gain and signaling renewed inflation pressure. Food and fuel led the surge with a 13.2 percent annual rate, stoking concerns that consumer prices will rise despite administration forecasts.
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Washington
UPI
Labor Department
Carter
Lawyers can now unionize under new NLRB ruling
The National Labor Relations Board ruled that law firms fall under federal labor law, opening the door to union organizing by lawyers and clerical staff. The decision, cited to broaden interstate commerce impact, reverses a 1973 stance and follows new board membership.
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Washington
UPI
National Labor Relations Board
Supreme Court
Los Angeles
France claims safe chemical method to enrich uranium
French scientists within the International Atomic Energy Conference describe a chemical approach to uranium enrichment aimed at powering plants while reducing bomb risks. They note a new method using crown compounds and say chemical techniques may be less dangerous for weapon spread, though U.S. experts consider past chemical methods slow and inefficient.
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Paris
French Atomic Energy Commission
Fontenayen-Roses
Soviet fishing trawler Taras Shevchenko freed after penalties
The 275-foot Soviet trawler Taras Shevchenko was released from Boston Coast Guard custody after paying $240,000 civil damages and a $10,000 criminal fine for violating U.S. 200 mile fisheries limits. President Carter ordered the seizure. the ship sailed from Boston as crew waved from the deck.
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Boston
UPI
Taras Shevchenko
United States
Boston Coast
Alexander Gopalov
Carter
Massachusetts
Edt
Gopalov
U.S
Gupalov
Reverend Moon Arrested for Trespassing at Bard College
Reverend Sun Myung Moon and ten companions were arrested on trespassing charges after entering Bard College grounds in Annandale on Hudson New York. Troopers said the group was sight seeing near a sewage plant a mile from their land and were given summonses to appear before Red Hook Town Justice Elmore Fraleigh.
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Annandale -On-Hudson
N.Y
UPI
Sun Myung Moon
Bard College
Hudson River
New York City
Moon
Unification Church
New York
Bard
Barrytown
Leon Botstein
Red Hook
Elmore Fraleigh
Botstein
Tarrytown
Westchester County
David Kim
Chung Kwak
Hiroshi Matsuzaki
Richard Sirney
Kenji Ohnuki
Gerhard Peemoeller
Mark Skulstad
Gerald Ciemny
Alan Cayton
Sang Han
Croatian hijackers convicted over TWA flight to Paris
Four Croatian nationalists were found guilty of air piracy and conspiracy for hijacking TWA Flight 553 from New York to Paris to press for Croatian independence. Ringleader Zvonko Busic and wife Julienne face life terms on the hijacking death charge after a New York policeman was killed defusing a bomb.
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New York
UPI
Trans World Airlines
Paris
Yugoslavia
Zvonko Busic
Julienne
New York City
Grand Central Station
Peter Matanic
Frane Pesut
USS. District Court
Brooklyn
TWA
Chicago
LaGuardia
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