Drapeau Wins Fifth Montreal Mayoral Term in Landslide
Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau secured re election with over 92 percent of the vote in the citys largest turnout, while his Civic party swept all 52 council seats. Police and army guarded polling places amid FLQ threats as Cross fate remained unresolved after Laportes kidnapping and murder.
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Montreal
UPI
Jean Drapeau
Canada
Drapeau
Civic Party
Quebec Liberation Front
FLQ
James R. Cross
Quebec
Pierre Laporte
Political Action Front
FRAP
Downtown theatre melee ends with arrests in Providence
Providence police halted a Sunday melee that began inside the Strand Theatre during House of Dark Shadows and The Fearless Vampire Killers. About 200 youths filed outside. five police officers and twelve others suffered minor injuries as white and black teens fought and a group was robbed. Thirty officers responded, five youths were later charged with assault.
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Providence
R.I
UPI
Strand Theatre
Washington Street
Cleaver says Leary escape shows Hoover a paper tiger
Eldridge Cleaver of the Black Panthers, in Algiers, calls FBI Director Hoover a paper tiger after Timothy Leary escaped custody. Cleaver claims U.S. authorities sabotage his movement abroad and hints at Leary offering support without joining the Panthers. Leary and Miss Dohrn traveled via Beirut, with Algerian asylum reportedly granted but not confirmed.
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Algiers
UPI
Eldridge B. Cleaver
Timothy F. Leary
United States
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Cleaver
The
Black Panthers
Leary
Harvard
California
Beirut
Jordan
Palestinian Liberation Movement
Black Panther
al Biar
Prof
Jack
J. Edgar) Hoover
Jennifer
Miss Dohrn
Algeria
Vermont Appeals Set on Two Environmental Decisions
Vermont Environmental Control Board schedules hearings for two appeals. Cape Lookoff Corp seeks a Goshen vacation home permit denied by Addison District Commission. Vermont Railway plans a 50 acre Shelburne industrial park were rejected by Chittenden District. Board reports 105 applications under the 1970 Environmental Control Law, including a 120 lot Jay Peak subdivision and a 65 unit Manchester condo project.
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Shelburne
Babcock
Jay Peak
Manchester
No clues yet in missing Colonie girl case
Police and state investigators press for leads as 17-year-old Sheila Allen disappears after saying she would be late from the library. A shoe and other items were found near her Rapple Drive home, and authorities decline to comment on foul play.
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Burlington
UPI
Winston Prouty
Phillip Hoff
Prouty
St. Johnsbury
Hoff
Frank Dion
Dion
Montpelier
Vermont
Thomas Peter Rotella
Winooski
Thomas H. Rotella
Grand Jury
Washington County
Sylvia McDonald
Robert
Colonie
Loudonville
Sheila Allen
Rapple
Regional plant vote delay in Berkshire area
Berkshire items report that Williamstown and North Adams leaders oppose a regional sewage plant plan and will place the regionalization question before voters today. The deadline extensions give three more weeks for decision.
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Williamstown
Selectmen and Finance Committee
North Adams
State Welfare Department
Florida
Monroe
Edward C. Foley
Berkshire County
Cheshire
Savoy
Windsor
Clarksburg
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the Shea Agency, Inc
Main St
Benn., Vt
Bradford House
Cole Slavor
Mon
PLAZA
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Public Service
Waterbury
New York
Procaccino
Rocky Troy
Mario A. Procaccino
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Pittsfield
Allendale
Williams College
Joy Dewey
Bennington College
Martha Graham
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