Ford tours Kyoto as protests greet presidential visit
President Ford toured Kyoto and Tokyo amid protests during a two day Japan trip. Thousands welcomed him in Kyoto while 15 000 police kept him isolated in Tokyo. He planted a dogwood tree at the Tokyo guest house and met Hirohito before heading to South Korea and a Vladivostok summit.
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Kyoto
Japan
UPI
Ford
Tokyo
South Korea
Leonid Brezhnev
Vladivostok
Hirohito
Miyako
Fuodo Kaere
Henry A. Kissinger
White House
Old
Imperial Palace
Palace
Largest antitrust suit seeks to break up AT&T
The Justice Department files the largest antitrust case against AT&T and its subsidiaries Western Electric and Bell Laboratories, seeking to split Western Electric and parts of the network to foster competition. AT&T vows to fight, warning of possible fragmentation and higher costs. CPI data also shows October price increases in food, cars, and housing with real spendable income down.
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At&t
William B. Saxbe
Washington
UPI
Labor Department
Department
Egyptian minister warns Israel risks world war and detente
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmi told Al Mussawar that Israel's actions threaten global peace and could wreck U S Soviet detente. He called for full Israeli withdrawal from occupied lands and recognition of a Palestinian state as conditions for peace, while noting Arab mobilization against Israeli threats. Meanwhile five West Bank residents were deported from the occupied area to Lebanon on charges tied to pro Palestinian protests and Yasser Arafat called secret talks with aides to counter Israel's war on terror.
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United Press International
Israel
U.S
Ismail Fahmi
Cairo
Middle East
Fahmi
al Mussawar
Lebanon
Syria
Leonid Brezhnev
Soviet Communist Party
Nixon
Egypt
Tel Aviv
West Bank
Jordan River
Yasser Arafat
Donavan proposes housing solutions to curb crisis
Selectman Peter R. Donavan told the Bennington Planning Commission he has a plan for three mobile home families at Bell Trailer Park facing eviction by Dec. 1. He urged a six month delay and asked the panel to study two long-term fixes for low and lower-middle income housing amid ongoing court orders and eviction efforts.
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Peter R. Donavan
Bennington Planning Commission
Bell
Donavan
Housing turmoil as three families face eviction from Bell Park
Three trailer families with four to six children face eviction after court order shut Bell Park. Selectmen and planning officials clashed over housing delays. Donavan failed to delay proceedings while Kittell pressed pollution concerns. Donavan proposed two housing plans including a municipal mobile park for larger families.
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Chrysler
Carone
Tom Braden
Gen. Brown
MACHS
Manchester
Battlefield Park
Ben Franklin
MAU
Mohawks Claim Adirondacks in historic land dispute
Mohawk Indians occupying 612 acres near Picturesque Moss Lake claim the Adirondacks and much of Vermont under a 1794 treaty seeking recognition of their right to hunt fish and live off the land. After a shooting incident Oct 28 near the camp, state police surrounded the area while federal mediators and Onondaga Chief Crew Lyons urged a lawful settlement process.
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Big Moose
N.Y
UPI
Adirondack Mountains
New York
Vermont
Ganienkeh
Adirondacks
New York State
Moss Lake
Philippines
Canada
United States
Geneva
Inlet
Crew Lyons
Edward Cabell
NE Telephone firms named AT&T co conspirators
The Justice Department identified twenty three local Bell System affiliates as coconspirators in the AT&T antitrust suit. Although not named defendants, the companies reportedly participated in some alleged illegal acts. Listed are New England, Southern New England, New York, New Jersey Bell, Bell of Pennsylvania, Diamond State, Chesapeake and Potomac groups including Maryland Virginia West Virginia, plus Southern Bell, South Central Bell, Ohio Bell, Cincinnati Bell, Michigan Bell, Indiana Bell, Wisconsin Bell, Illinois Bell, Northwestern Bell, Southwestern Bell, Mountain States, Pacific Northwest, and Pacific Telephone & Telegraph.
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Aganst
At&t
Bell Nettworks
Western Electric
Justice Department
Bell
Ford Administration
Washington
UPI
Bell System
New England Telephone & Telegraph Co
Southern New England Telephone Co
New York Telephone Co
New Jersey Bell Telephone Co
Bell Telephone Co
Pennsylvania
Diamond State Telephone Co
Chesapeake and
Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Co
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co
Beginning of Nixon's end Palm Sunday 1973
Report notes the Palm Sunday weekend of 1973 as the start of Nixon's downfall with growing Watergate cracks. It recounts Nixon conferring with Ehrlichman about fairness, then transcripts and tapes entering the courtroom during the cover-up trial of aides Ehrlichman Mitchell Haldeman Marcian and Parkinson.
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Washington
Ehrlichman
Nixon
John N. Mitchell
H. R. Haldeman
Robert C. Marcian
Kenneth W. Parkinson
Nixon White House
Mitchell
White House
Jeb Stuart Magruder
John W. Dean III
Lee Nixon
Woodford History Church Sells Not for Sale Lease Dispute
In Woodford Vermont the Advent Christian Church Inc. signs a 99 year lease to use the church in Woodford Hollow as a town office and for religious services. The deed history traces back to Lyman Patchin who set reversion to his heirs if the property no longer serves religious purposes. The record notes periods of inactivity, ownership transfers, and a 1930s revival led by Hubert Harte with a church addition and a fireplace.
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Advent Christian Church Inc
Woodford Hollow
Lyman Patchin
Advent Christian Church
Patchin
Lewis Cass Aldrich
Bennington County
Joseph Parks
Woodford
Hubert Harte
Bennington
Alta Mallory
Bennington Convalescent Center
Harte
Lee Church
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