Begin victory ends Labor rule in Israel election upset
Menahem Begin's Likud bloc wins 41 seats, ending Labor's 29 year hold as Israel shifts government aims toward peace talks with the Carter administration. Begin says a coalition is needed by June 13 and vows no withdrawal from occupied Arab lands, while Arab reaction warns of potential conflict.
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Israel
UPI
Menahem Begin
Washington
Carter
Middle East
Begin
Likud
Labor Party
Damascus Radio
al Baath
Irgun Zvai Leumi
Labor
Yitzhak Rabin
West Bank
Jordan
Carter proposes law to require warrants for domestic wiretaps
President Carter unveiled legislation to require a court order before wiretaps for foreign intelligence within the United States. The plan aims to protect Americans while preserving national security, with officials calling it a renaissance of the Bill of Rights and urging Congress to pass it promptly.
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Washington
UPI
Carter
United States
Tronic
Congress
Griffin Bell
Bayh
Bennington Selectmen Fund Assistant Post With Anti-Recession Money
In a 3-2 vote with one abstention the Bennington selectmen approved 15000 dollars of anti inflation funds to cover the salary of the controversial assistant to Town Manager Louis C Savelas. The decision follows petitions urging rescission of their previous 4-2 approval of the post and sets up acceptance of the water and sewer budgets with salary offsets.
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Bennington Selectmen
Louis C. Savelas
Selectmen
Water Board
Richard Perrott
Dudley Baker
Lorraine Eastman
Gerald P. Morrissey
Paul Sheridan
Richard Leake
Weston ends appeal on Mt Holly 250 permit
Weston Planning Commission withdraws its appeal of the December Act 250 permit for Mt. Holly Farm tourist project. Construction will begin this summer on a 190 acre site off Route 155 with a scheduled spring 1978 opening. Kinsey, the Manchester veterinarian who proposed the project, called the decision a democratic finish and noted both towns benefit from the process.
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Maggie C. Bucholt
Weston
Mt. Holly Farm
Weston Planning Commission
Route 155
Mt. Holly
James Kinsey
Manchester
Kinsey
Banner
Planning Commission
William Marshall
State Environmental Board
Superior Court
Lyman Orton
Hoosick Falls workers sue over layoff of two highway men
The Civil Service Employees Association reportedly filed unfair labor practices charges against Hoosick Falls to contest the layoff of highway workers Thomas Bass, the union president, and John Mahar, town justice. The layoffs followed no budgeted wage funds and were based on lowest seniority, with officials citing ongoing contract talks and board authority.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Civil Service Employes Association
CSEA
Board of Trustees
Bass
Mahar
Francis Murphy
Trustees
State Public Employment Relations Board
PERB
Donald Bogardus
Village Board
Salmon critiques Carters energy plan as not tough enough
Former Vermont governor Thomas P. Salmon told a Boston seminar that Carter's energy package is not tough enough to pull the nation out of its energy dilemma. He urged more stringent measures, rail investment, mass transit, recycling, and affordable insulation programs, while warning of tough actions if the plan fails.
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Carter
Boston
Vermont
Thomas P. Salmon
National Governors’ Conference
Committee On Energy Policy
First National Bank of Boston
Federal Energy Administration
Tenneco
Harvard Law
New England
Bank
Boston Herald American
David Lovenheim
U.S
Frank Horton
Inside National and County News Roundup
Inside National reports Congress wrangling over the 1978 budget while an Indian commission seeks a rights report on Page 2. Local columns cover photography in the 19th century on Page 4, a nuclear power cost letter on Page 5, and political critique of the GOP. County items on Pages 6 and 7 detail local planning actions. Entertainment notes on Page 9 salute Joan Crawford, and Page 12 covers MAU baseball losing to Falls.
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Indian Commission
Bennington Museem
Russell Baker
Pownal
Manchester
Oak
Falls
Melvin Maddocks
Joan Crawford
MAU
Bollows Falls
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Bennington
Leahy
Bennington County
Morrissey
Misty
Woolmington
Thomas Manning
Windham, Conn
Old First Church
Old Bennington
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Toby Moffett
Unionville
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Lowell
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