Coventry CT teachers strike turns ugly in weekend standoff
In Coventry Rhode Island the school committee refused to resume talks until 291 suspended teachers return to classrooms. Demonstrators jeered job applicants crossing picket lines outside Junior High West as two applicants wore masks. Police escorted those crossing the lines, and reporter Bruce McIntyre was arrested briefly amid scuffles. The district plans to close 11 schools and replace staff while unions push for higher pay.
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UPI
Junior High West
Union
United States
Bruce McIntyre
Pawtuxet Valley
John Assalone
Coventry Teachers Alliance
William Berger
Weekend Forecast With Showers Possible
Considerable cloudiness today with showers likely and highs in the 60s. Variable skies tonight into Sunday with a chance of showers and lows in the 50s to near 60. Sunday highs expected in the 70s.
Pownal Tests Support For Route 7 Road Battle
Pownal selectmen vote 2 to 1 to contribute up to 250 to a legal effort by Friends of 7 to speed construction of a new Route 7 in southern Vermont. A Coleman Mason and Bruce Burrington voted in favor, Joseph Maillet opposed, citing personal road support but not tax funding.
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Pownal
Friends of 7
Vermont
A. Coleman Mason
Bruce Burrington
Joseph Maillet
Maillet
Vermont hearings on small farms in New England
Washington report says Rep. James Jeffords announced that a House subcommittee will hold hearings in Putney Vermont on September 30 to examine problems facing small family farms in New England. The event follows a prior hearing planned for Burlington October 1 on brucellosis afflicting Vermont cattle.
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Washington
Putney
Haldeman and Mitchell seek reduced Watergate sentences
Haldeman and Mitchell petition to cut their prison terms for the Watergate coverup after Nixon televised confessions. Haldeman asks reducing his 30 month sentence to eight years, citing Nixon’s admission and alleged obstruction. Mitchell’s lawyers say confinement harms his finances and family as he serves at Maxwell AFB in Alabama.
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Washington
UPI
H.R. Haldeman
Richard Nixon
John Mitchell
Mitchell
Haldeman
U.S
John J. Sirica
Nixon
David Frost
John Wilson
Wiliam Handley
Plato Chacheris
White House
Wilson
Sirica
Maxwell Afb
Montgomery
Ala
Apple growers fight bureaucracy to get their Jamaican pickers
Vermont apple grower Richard Montondo of Southern Vermont Orchards in Bennington says local pickers are unreliable and costly. With 8,000 bushels to harvest in six weeks, he employs Jamaican and Puerto Rican workers to meet strict picking standards. He voices frustration at state wage rules and the difficulty of training locals.
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Bennington
Montondo
New England
New York
Virginia
Maryland
West Virginia
On Montondo
Harrison
Albert Hughes
Dick Montondo
Springfield Faces Court Ruling Over Municipal Hydro Project
Vermont Supreme Court ruled Springfield failed to provide 30 days notice for the 1975 town meeting on a $53 million municipal hydro project. The decision threatens the plan opposed by Central Vermont Public Service Corp. CVPS, serving 90,000 customers, had fought the venture since its announcement two and a half years earlier.
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Central Vermont Public Service Corp
CVPS
Vermont
Selectmen
Federal Power Commission
State Supreme Court
High Court
Chester Scott
Scott
Thomas Hurcomb
Hurcomb
Atom Man
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp
Yankee Atomic
Vernon
Buckley Seeks Nicaragua Canal Plan After Panama Vote
Lt Gov T G Buckley proposed reviving a Bryan Chamorro era plan to build a modern Nicaragua canal if the Panama Treaty is ratified. In a letter to Sen Robert Stafford he urged US-Nicaragua talks, tracing a route and arguing public works jobs and a nuclear-free construction method.
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United States
Nicaragua
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William Stuart
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