Sargent signs no fault plan for property damage
Gov. Francis W. Sargent signed legislation extending no fault auto coverage from bodily injury to property damage and collision. The measure requires motorists to pick among three plans, sets 15 day claim payments or double, and allows windfall profits to be rebated after public hearings.
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Boston
UPI
Francis W. Sargent
Insurance
Alan D. Sisitsky
Springfield
Sargent
Sisitsky
Ex-aide to McCormack pleads innocent to bribery charge
Martin Sweig former aide to retired House Speaker John W McCormack pleaded innocent to a four count federal indictment charging him with taking a $5000 bribe to use influence of the speakers office for the son of Miami industrialist Michael A Silbert Keller Industries director of industrial relations. The case notes Keller Jr later received a Navy assignment and release. The maximum penalty is 20 years and a $40 000 fine. Sweig was being sent back to Pennsylvania after arraignment.
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UPI
Martin Sweig
House
John W. McCormack
Sweig
Pennsylvania
Michael A. Silbert
Silbert
Henry A. Keller
Keller Industries
Keller
Water officials call Muskie bill unworkable in Senate move
In Boston on Wednesday water pollution control leaders from the Interstate Conference on Water Problems and the Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators criticized the Muskie bill as inadequately funded and unrealistic. They urged re opening of hearings while noting the goal of zero discharge by 1985 is unlikely and funding appears insufficient for state projects.
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UPI
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Edmund S. Muskie
D-Maine
Interstate Conference On Water Problems
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Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators
William Clayton
Texas
Clayton
House Public Works Committee
Muskie
Environmental Protection Agency
Thomas McMahon
Division of Water Pollution Control
Massachusetts
Grant J. Merritt
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
Government tests to replace industry in new drug safety
Senator Gaylord Nelson proposes a bill placing government in charge of testing new drugs for safety and effectiveness with FDA preclearance of all drug advertisements including nonprescription items. He cites bias in industry tests and instances of misrepresentation.
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Washington
UPI
Gaylord Nelson
D-Wis
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Charles C. Edwards
Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association
PMA
Vermont Voter Checklist Focuses On College Residency
The Middlebury Board reviews applications to place residents on the town checklist for the November 16 primary. An appeals hearing affects students registered in college communities with ACLU counsel involved. Officials say residency decisions are made case by case, with no denials yet. Vermont candidates largely back withdrawing U S forces from Vietnam amid Ecumenical Council questions. Interstate 91 stretch opens from Norwich to Fairlee, part of a 178 mile project due 1976 completion.
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VPI
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Attorney General’s Office
Burlington
UPI
Vermont
Congress
U.S
Vietnam
Vermont Ecumenical Council
Southeast Asia
Howard Stearns Jr
J. William O’brien
Winooski
Chittenden
Fred Westphal
Lamoille
Robert T. Stafford
John Alden
Windsor County
John Busk
East Corinth
Richard Mallary
Fairlee
Richard Thomas
John S. Burgess
Norwich
Massachusetts
Connecticut River
Bangor youth postpones plea on fugitive charge in Vermont
James Wynn, 18, of Bangor Maine, postponed pleading to a fugitive from justice charge after his Tuesday arrest in a Winooski apartment attic. Held on $2500 bail at Vermont Regional Correctional Center. Vermont parks department awarded a 29600 matching grant from the Interior Department for renovations at six state parks.
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UPI
James Wynn
Bangor
Maine
Wynn
Winooski
Vermont
Washington, D.C
Vermont Parks and Forests Department
Interior Department
Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
Bribery trial tapes center on Mitchell Meyer offer
In New York the James J. Mitchell bribery trial resumes with tape recordings of a conversation in which Meyer is allegedly offered a bribe to influence a garbage disposal contract and airport dumping. Meyer's testimony says Mitchell warned the firm would fail if a dump site could not be found. A second item reports 30-year-old Edward Munhall of Troy dying after a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his brother’s apartment. autopsy pending.
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Troy
James J. Mitchell
Lawrence D. Meyer
Mitchell
Meyer
Edward Munhall
Ninth St
St. Mary’s Hospital
Munhall
James
Voters approve fluoridation in Berkshire city
Down in Berkshire voters narrowly approved adding fluorides to the drinking water by a 3 776 to 3 017 margin. The measure may make North Adams the first county city to fluoridate. Health Director Edmund P Larkin said the ordinance will require time and an appropriation before council action, with multiple water sources delaying full implementation for about a year.
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North Adams
Edmund P. Larkin
Larkin
Health Board
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