Czech Students Extend Strike Across Prague
UPI reports Prague college students voted to extend their campus strike by at least one day. About 400 students at Charles University urged a longer walkout while railway workers warned of halting all trains if the regime acted against them. The protest spread to high schools and factories with posters and sit ins, as authorities urged a halt.
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Prague
UPI
Prague College
Charles University
Wenceslas Square
CTK
Bennington Selectmen Back From Interim Zoning Plan
Bennington selectmen held a public hearing on an interim zoning rule for the outside town area then announced they would not act and would put the issue to a March Town Meeting vote. Town Counsel outlined provisions and noted selectmen could act without a vote, but a petition could force one. The meeting raised questions about why it was held, with planning officials backing the measure yet the board preferring public input before action.
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Scribner
Norton Barber
J. Duncan Campbell
Joseph Higgins
Gerald Cornell
Bennington Board of Selectmen
Foutside
North Bennington
Bennington
Old Bennington
Bennington Selectmen
March
Selectmen
Barber
Town Planning Commission
Vermont Planning and Development Act
Joseph E. Higgins
Arthur D. Taylor
Convent Avenue
Minimum Elementary School Standards Flavored With Local Control Provisions
Montpelier unveiled a plan for state minimum elementary standards combining state pressure with local control. Education Commissioner Harvey B. Scribner proposes district design committees to create area plans detailing opportunities, implementation, and dates. Two standards are a 30 square feet per pupil classroom space by 1971 and at least $10 per pupil for learning resources, far above current averages. Public hearings will gather views as districts draft designs, with local involvement emphasized and consultants provided.
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Montpelier
Harvey B. Scribner
State Board of Education
Scribner’s
Vermont
Crea
Scribner
State Education Department
Court Action Planned To Retain Gasoline Logos on Interstate
MONTPELIER Vermont Highway Board moves to court to block Travel Information Council from removing 78 gasoline logo signs across the state. The board seeks an injunction in Washington County Court and outlines rights over a pilot project linking logos to a 1968 anti billboard act revision. The action aims to keep winter travel data and preserve the placemarked interchanges.
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Interstate
Montpelier
UPI
Highway Board
Travel Information Council
Washington County
Travel Council
Asst
Louis Peck
Vermont Petroleum Association
U.S. Bureau of Public Roads
Jonathan Brownell
Attorney General’s Office
Legislative Council
Underground Explosions Trap 57 Coal Miners
Tremendous explosions ripped through a seven mile deep soft coal mine near Mannington West Virginia trapping 57 miners. Officials said eight were safe but 49 faced dangerous conditions with rescue efforts under way by crane and bucket. The mine employs about 360 workers across three shifts and lies between Mannington and Farmington.
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Mannington
W. Va
UPI
David H. Davis
Mountaineer
Consolidation Coal Co
Davis
Llewellyn Portal
Pennsylvania
West Virginia Department of Mines
Marion County
Robert H. Tennant
Farmington
Saigon Reaffirms Paris Talks Boycott Over Viet Cong Status
Saigon again rejects taking part in Paris talks under present conditions. Thieu maintains the boycott citing Viet Cong no full conference status. North Vietnam signals possible compromise while Moscow pressures for easing military postures to end the boycott. Diplomatic talks in Paris and Moscow unfold as Viet Cong strategy calls for U.S. withdrawal and a timetable for exit, opposed by allies.
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Paris
UPI
South Vietnam
Vietnam
Moscow
Saigon
Kremlin
Vung Tau
Nguyen van Thieu
Thieu
Hanoi
le Duc Tho
North Vietnam
Peking
United States
U.S
Cyrus R. Vance
Hau van Lau
Western Europe Money Markets Shut To Stabilize Franc
Paris reports Western money markets closed to aid France in halting franc devaluation. Bonn hosts emergency talks of the non Communist world’s 10 richest nations as Britain Germany Belgium Spain and others pause trading. In London gold prices jump to 40.75 per ounce amid global monetary stress.
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Paris
UPI
France
Bonn
United States
Charles de Gaulle
Britain
Belgium
Spain
London
Lake Ontario Pollution Threat Prompting $300 Million Plan
Federal and state officials said a $300 million program is needed to save Lake Ontario from pollution. A study begun in 1964 by the Federal Pollution Control Administration and New York State Health Department found the lake’s condition threatens its water use and recreational value across the Genesee River watershed from the Niagara Frontier to the St. Lawrence River.
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Rochester
N.Y
UPD
Lake Ontario
Federal Pollution Control Administration
New York State Health Department
Niagara Frontier
St. Lawrence River
Genesee River
Inside Page Teases Nixon Mandate And Local Notes
A brief newspaper tease highlights politics and local notices. John Chamberlain asserts Nixon has a mandate. Other items include welfare-system scrutiny in Bay State and the Eagle Bridge post office saga continuing.
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John Chamberlain
Nixon
Bay State
Eagle Bridge
N.Y
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Ft. Knox
Gary G. Wetzel
Oak Creek
Wis
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Martinsville
Ind
Dwight H. Johnson
Detroit
Angelo J. Lucky
Washington, D.C
ETV
Phillip Viereck
Molly Stark
Richard Snelling
Shelburne
Vermont State School Directors Association
Marian Taylor
New York City
Ocean Hill
Brownsville
Rutland
Western
Europe
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