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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1976
Page
2
In Berlin, East German border guards fired 30 to 35 rounds at a 15-year-old scaling the wall but the youth reached West Berlin unharmed. Police noted an aunt in the west and that the wall is fortified with towers and mines since 1963.
In San Luis Obispo pigeons and blackbirds began dying in large numbers near California Polytechnic University. About 40 pigeons were found dead near campus, with 10 to 20 more blackbirds perishing from perches on trees and lines. A Fish and Game Department researcher arrived to identify the cause as police report a convulsing bird dying in front of a officer. Public officials denied recent tree spraying.
The 120th plenary meeting of mutual force reduction negotiators in Vienna ended with no progress. Talks began October 30, 1973, and will resume next week ahead of the Christmas recess, a NATO spokesman said.
North Canaan Connecticut UPI reports former State Police Commissioner Fuessenich says he did not know about statements that led to clearing Peter Reilly of involvement in the 1973 Falls Village murder of his mother Barbara Gibbons. Finney and his wife Wanda gave new testimony placing Reilly at a church teen center then at home after the body was found. Reilly, retried after a 1974 manslaughter conviction, had supporters who pressed for reopening the case amid new fingerprint evidence and ongoing concerns about police handling.
At least seven people died across New England in the opening 36 hours of Thanksgiving. A Rhode Island man, 36, Michael Winsett of Tiverton, died in a living room sofa fire. A Providence man was killed in a midnight hit and run on Douglas Avenue, with police investigating. Massachusetts deaths followed from a freeway crash in Wrentham and a head on collision in Saugus, with Connecticut fatalities from two rural crashes. A Beacon Hill fire damaged a rooming house near the State House, with $75,000 in damage and six injuries.
President Ford relaxed at Camp David Md and watched football while Carter celebrated with family in Plains Ga. Macy’s parade drew thousands in Manhattan and Detroit hosted a large Santa Claus parade. Charities fed the needy from Chicago to Skid Row Los Angeles with thousands served. Soldiers worldwide shared feasts as Duyen Baccam and his family in Des Moines offered grace for those unable to celebrate.
In Geneva the Rhodesia peace talks stall as Black nationalists Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe fail to agree on the date for independence under black majority rule. They await a mandate and clash over whether to accept British plan or insist on December 1, 1977. Front-line states urge unity to keep the Patriotic Front intact.
Massachusetts lawmakers Sen. Arthur Lewis Jr. and Rep. Peter Flynn will refile a bill to ban first degree murderers from prison vacations. They criticize the three year furlough program as a disaster, citing seven murders and 400 major crimes by inmates on furlough and accusing Gov. Dukakis of a pocket veto on tighter rules.
A U.S. Geological Survey report warns America must greatly raise output of aluminum iron ore and other minerals to meet energy industry needs through 1990. It notes reliance on imports for some key materials and calls for federal funding to expand research while aiming for energy independence and near self sufficiency in many minerals.
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