Land owners clash with hunters over posting longtime dispute
A Vermont landowner on Mt Anthony’s Pownal side posts 20 acres to keep hunters off. Since 1972 Louise Larus has faced trespass, vandalism, and threats as deer season fuels conflict with local sportsmen. Hunters ignore signs, a dog is shot, windows are broken, and private roads are barricaded amid ongoing tension.
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Louise Larus
Mt. Anthony
Pownal
Ms. Larus
Larus
Virginia
Tidewater
Vermont
Sarkis deploys peace force to Lebanon conflict zones
Beir ut reports Syria led Arab peacekeeping units moved into central Beirut and Christian and Moslem districts to implement President Sarkis plan. Sporadic shelling continued, yet fewer shells fell than last night. 15 civilians were killed as 400 shells hit during the prior bombardment.
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Beirut
Lebanon
UPI
Elias Sarkis
Sarkis
Damascus
Arab League
Beirut-Damascus
Aley
Saudi Arabia
Sudan
Yemen
Carter credits debates for victory in 1976 win
Plains Ga United Press International reports President-elect Jimmy Carter says the three debates with President Ford helped secure his 1976 victory but he would not necessarily debate his 1980 challenger.
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Plains, Ga
UPI
Jimmy Carter
Ford
Plains
Carter
Richard Nixon
White House
Israelis refuse U S nuclear safety check
TEL AVIV Israel UPI The Israeli government refused to open its secret Dimona atomic facility to a delegation of 13 U S senators checking safeguards for American reactors promised to the Jewish state sources close to the government said.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
UPI
Dimona
U.S
Negev Desert
Jerusalem
Egypt
Iran
Howard Baker
R-Tenn
United States
Abraham Ribicoff
D-Conn
Jimmy Carter
Ma’ariv
Paul Leventhal
Senate
Government Operations Committee
Leventhal
New York Times
Laborious jury selection in Hohman murder trial begins
In Middlebury 35 year old George Hohman of Bennington faces a first degree murder trial for the strangulation death of 15 year old Mary Ann Peterson. Jury selection started slowly with 61 potential jurors and only three chosen by noon as attorneys may challenge all jurors later.
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Middlebury
George Hohman
Bennington
Mary Ann Peterson
Shaftsbury
Kathleen Baslow
Timothy Alexander
Alice Wright
Wright
Addison County
Hilton H. Dier
Morton A. Coons
Ralph A. Eaton
Dier
Hohman
Arthur S. Faris
James Toolan
Henry Payson
Dartmouth Medical School
Erwin Mattison
Charles Sawyer
William Keefe
Bennington County
Raymond G. Bolton
Keefe
Supreme Court declines to block abortion aid ruling
The Supreme Court refused to block a lower court order requiring continued Medicaid payments for elective abortions while appeal proceeds. UPI reports that Judge John F. Dooling found the new law barring federal abortion aid unconstitutional, and intervenors including Buckley Helms Hyde and Pennicone sought a stay. The statute would bar federal funds for abortions except when the mother's life is at risk, effective Oct 1.
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Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
U.S
John F. Dooling
New York City
Planned Parenthood
Dooling
James L. Buckley
R-N.y
Jesse A. Helms
R-N.c
Henry J. Hyde
R-N
Isabella M. Pennicone
Thurgood Marshall
Buckley
Congress
Inside Local recaps four Vermont recounts and large donations
Four recounts are requested after Vermont elections. Large donations were made to Rescue Squad and hospital building funds. Gerry Raftery reflects on Pearl Harbor and historic events. A guest editorial notes Massachusetts referenda, especially the bottle ban, were defeated.
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Vermont
Gerry Raftery
Pearl Harbor
Massachusetts
White Creek
Buskirk Bridge
Carter faces church choice during transition
President elect Jimmy Carter weighs whether to remain in a segregated church or leave Plains Baptist Church in Plains Georgia as local dissension grows. The church plans a Sunday vote on dismissing Reverend Ed wards over a 11 year old policy barring negroes and civil rights agitators.
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ST. Simons Island
UPI
Jimmy Carter
Carter
Georgia
Plains Baptist Church
Jody Powell
Bruce Edwards
Carter Church
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