Debates stir as Labor Forum backs Democrats in Vermont
Vermont campaign coverage describes the State Labor Forum endorsing the Democratic slate ahead of the November election. Gov. Thomas Salmon and Burgess drew praise, while Jeffords and Hackel clashed with personal jabs and accusations of lies. The labor union presence and a dispute over a pasted-on union bug feature in campaign literature are noted.
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Bennington
State Labor Forum
U.S. Senate
Thomas P. Salmon
Robert T. Stafford
Liberty
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
United Electrical Workers
Granite-cutters International
Gov. Salmon
John A. Burgess
U.S. House
Burgess
Labor Forum
America
Vermont
Jeffords
John
Burlington
Vermont Labor Council
HEW study backs full federal health plan proposal
An unreleased actuarial analysis prepared for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare assesses six health insurance reform plans. It suggests the labor backed health security plan may not be the most expensive, while noting its higher costs and broader benefits than other options. The report contrasts this with the Ullman plan and details anticipated federal spending shifts and payroll tax impacts.
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Washington
Jimmy Carter
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Gordon R. Trapnell Consulting Actuary
Ford
Carter
American Public Health Association
Miami Beach
Kennedy- Corman
American Hospital Association
al Ullman
House Committee On Ways and Means
Bermuda Triangle cargo ship with 37 missing
A 590 foot cargo ship with a crew of 37 is missing since Friday and feared sunk in the Bermuda Triangle area. The Sylvia L. Ossa found an overturned lifeboat and an oil slick 140 miles west of Bermuda after guidance from a US Navy patrol plane. The ship was sailing from Brazil to Philadelphia with iron ore when events unfolded. A British vessel, the Portland, later joined the search.
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Bermuda Triangle
Coast Guard
Bermuda
Sylvia L. Ossa
Brazil
Philadelphia
Norfolk, Va
Puerto Rico
Omnium Shipping Company
Broadway
Nobel prizes awarded to U S physicists and chemist
UPI reports two Americans win the physics prize for work on a new subnuclear particle and William Lipscomb of Harvard earns the chemistry prize for borane chemistry. The awards bring the U S total to six winners for 1976 with no peace prize this year and literature still undecided.
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Stockholm
Sweden
UPI
U.S
Burton
William N. Lipscomb
Harvard University
Nounced
Lipscomb
Boranes
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Goesta Ekspong
Academy
Inside the Nation and Local News Highlights
FBI chief shelves press attack amid administration pressure as Soviet space voyage ends in sea. Local coverage notes a youth workshop, MAU test time, a farewell to summer visitors, and political rhetoric critiques. Includes sports recaps of Fair Haven victory and other region games.
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FBI
MAU
Gerry Raftery
TRB
Times
Tom Wicker
Ford
North Shire
Nawrath
Ledbetter
HFCS
White Creek
Hoosick
Fair Haven
Panthers
St. Mary’s
Glens Falls
Liporto
Rutland
Reds
Ford in kind on Communist monitoring funds
President Ford edges toward signing a bill to fund a new Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe set to monitor Helsinki Final Act compliance. The move faces White House and State Department doubts amid Soviet protests and domestic voter backlash over his remarks on Eastern Europe. The measure, pushed by Rep. Dante Fascell, funds travel for panel staff to engage with foreign officials ahead of Belgrade 1977 review, with aims to unite Western groups and address Soviet and U.S. pledges.
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Nicholas Daniloff
Washington
UPI
Ford
Soviet Union
Commission On Security and Cooperation
Europe
Henry A. Kissinger
Jimmy Carter
State Department
Treasury Department
Dante Fascell
Dfla
Fascell
U.S
Belgrade
Commission
Helsinki
U.N
United States
Radio Free Europe
Radio Liberty
Snow Dips Vermont Peak. 244 Inches Mark Mt Mansfield
Snow from one of the season’s first falls blankets Mt Mansfield Vermont’s highest peak reaching nearly 244 inches. North and central Vermont see dustings with flurries reported in Newport St Albans Colchester and Bethel no or slight accumulation. State police near Middlesex report half an inch at higher elevations while flurries occur in Manchester Arlington and Bennington briefly.
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Mt. Mansfield
Vermont
Newport
St. Albans
Colchester
Bethel
United Press International
Middlesex
Manchester
Arlington
Bennington
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Bennington County
Howard Schell
Kat
Latham, N.Y
Leroy Thomas
Robert E. Tomasson
N.Y
Portland
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