Memphis teachers walkout disrupts citywide schooling
Memphis teachers staged a one day walkout pressuring for contract demands and more than 23 000 educators joined the action affecting at least 500 000 students. Aimed at low wage offers the district Board of Education faced mass meetings and a scheduled follow up. Another Tennessee strike continued in Bedford County and Seattle saw a historic second day of a city wide teachers walkout with schools kept open though not operating normally.
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Memphis
Blues
City Board of Education
Tennesee
Bedford County
Seattle
Wash
Beirut clash delays planned joint road start
In central Beirut heavy fighting erupted delaying Palestinians and Christians from opening a cross no man's land road. Artillery exchanges and ground combat were reported along the green line with 126 killed and at least 168 wounded as clashes continued in the ruins of the commercial center making the road project harder to launch.
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Beirut
Lebanon
UPI
No Man’s Land
Soviet defector Belenko hidden in Southern California
UPI reports Russian air force officer Viktor Ivanovich Belenko, who defected with a MIG25 Foxbat, is apparently concealed somewhere in Southern California and is expected to be moved to Washington soon. He arrived in Los Angeles Thursday night, escorted aboard a Northwest Orient 747 from Tokyo.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Viktor Ivanovich Belenko
California
Washington
Belenko
Northwest Orient Airlines
Tokyo
Royal succession by court astronomers in Imperial China
The ancient Chinese imperial process sometimes chose a new emperor by astrological judging. Court astronomers weighed celestial signs from a prince born under auspicious stars to determine the rightful successor after an emperor’s death.
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Imperial
China
Mars flood signs puzzle scientists
In Pasadena, Mars channels imply a massive ancient flood, though questions remain how liquid water existed with a thin atmosphere. Dr. Tobias Owen of JPL outlines warming mechanisms, orbital shifts, and carbon dioxide storage as possible factors, with dating estimates ranging from 100 million to 1 billion years ago as Viking 2 sends weather and seismic data.
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Pasadena
Calif
UPI
Mars
Red Planet
Tobias Owen
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Viking 1
Owen
Jupiter
Viking 2
Democratic chief wary of McCarthy’s pull on Carter vote
Democratic national chairman Robert S. Strauss warned that Eugene McCarthy's independent bid could dent Carter in key states. A National Committee poll showed McCarthy at 5-6 percent nationally, drawing more from Carter than Ford, with potential shifts in large electoral-heavy states and varied party sources.
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Washington
Robert S. Strauss
Eugene J. McCarthy
Strauss
National Committee
Minnesota
Jimmy Carter
Ford
McCarthy
Louis Harris
Carter
New York
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Michigan
California
Harris
Democratic National Committee
Cambridge Survey Research
Patrick Caddell
Carter Ford in clash over defense and waste in budget
United Press International reports a heated campaign exchange as Ford accuses Carter of weakening defense and allied ties while Carter counters with claims of waste and mismanagement. Dole and Mondale prodded support through Jewish and union events as Rosalynn Carter defends Jimmy’s sincerity on religion.
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United Press International
Jimmy Carter
Ford
Carter
America
Springfield
Ill
B’nai B’rith
Washington
Israel
Defense Department
Pentagon
Robert Dole
Russia
Dole
Walter Mondale
United Auto Workers
Detroit
Mondale
Rosalynn
Columbia
S.C
Jimmy
School burns amid Cape Town anti government violence
In Cape Province a high school for colored students was burned with arson suspected as police dispersed rioters with tear gas. The violence left at least 22 dead in the worst antigovernment unrest since June, with clashes across Wellington Bridgton Outshoorn Athlone and other colored districts.
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Erik van Ees
Cape Town
South Africa
UPI
Cape Province
John Vorster
Johannesburg
Berg River
Wellington
Bridgton
Outshoorn
Southern Cape Training College
Morester High School
Training College
Athlone
Nico Malan Nursing College
Groote Schuur
Major U.S. tax revision bill passed by Congress
After years of effort Congress finalizes a massive tax revision bill. It preserves $17.3 billion in cuts through 1977 and raises net revenue by $1.6 billion with estate tax revisions. The plan tightens shelters, broadens credits, reformulates capital gains, and expands taxpayer rights while limiting welfare tracking uses of Social Security numbers.
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Washington
UPI
Congressional
House
Senate
Ford
Israel
Middle East
Internal Revenue Service
Vitamin C critics labeled 'idiots' by Laura Hayden
Laura Hayden, author of two health books, called federal agencies and doctors who deny Vitamin C's role in preventing or treating the common cold "idiots" driven by money. She criticized the FDA's recent statement that Linus Pauling's claims require further study, saying doctors would lose money if Vitamin C were proven effective.
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Boston
UPI
Laura Hayden
Food and Drug Administration
Linus Pauling
Bennington Banner Classified Ad Rates and Contact Info
The Bennington Banner lists telephone numbers 447-7567 and 447-0332. It is published daily except Sunday and legal holidays from 425 Main St Bennington Vermont 05201. Subscription and delivery rates are provided for mail and carrier options including 3 months to 1 year plans.
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Bennington Banner
Main St
Bennington
The
Banner Publishing Corp
United Press International
New York Times
Matthews, Shannon & Cullen, Inc
Vermont
U.S
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FCC
L.A
Dunham Furniture Inc
Elm ST
Catamount National Bank
CB Radio
Spirit
Gan
Warren Weaver Jr
N.Y. Times News Service
Eugene McCarthy
Hartford
Conn
Zionist Organization of America
Perdue
King Daisy Hamswirt
Ib. Food Market
X-Acto Knives
Bulova
Bulova Computron
Ad. TV
American Gem Society
Main Street
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