Curtis Seeks Broad Maine Conservation Plan
Governor Curtis urged Maine lawmakers to pursue conservation as essential to economic growth, backing woodland and coast land zoning, park development, and billboard control. He called for air and water standards, land rehabilitation for mining, and a surface materials act to curb open pit damage, noting total clean up costs could reach 320 million dollars. He urged using estate funds to leverage federal matching funds and emphasized planning to avoid chaotic growth.
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Augusta
Curtis
Brazil
Maine
Rio Grande Do Norte
Mining Bureau
Trols Curtis
Tax breaks for seniors change their income picture
Elderly taxpayers gain larger exemptions and special rules for pensions, life insurance and home sales. The IRS treats 65 as a threshold, with a $1200 personal exemption and other pension tax rules, plus a lifetime survival-spouse option and a $20000 gain exclusion on principal residence sales for those 65 or older. The article notes specific cases and advises consulting IRS literature.
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Associated Press
Washington
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
Ceannes
Three Men Arrested In Slaying In New England
Haverhill and state police plus New Hampshire officers arrested Robert DeMatteo 28 and his brother Antonio 41 and Danese 33 all of Haverhill in connection with the Cantonland style killing of a Portland Maine man. DeMatteo was taken at the Holiday Inn in Lawrence and the others at their homes. Police were armed with shotguns.
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Navermitto Wa Tap
Haverhill
New Hampshire
Portland
Maine
Hampton
N.H
Daniel M. Fasulo
Robert DeMatteo
Antonio DeMatteo
Danese
Haveri
Lawrence
Arsenic in Fallon Water Sparks Political Battle
Fallon Nevada residents dispute a health warning after state official reports arsenic levels near twice federal limits in the town supply drawn from two 540 foot wells. Mayor and bartender defend water safety while Gov Laxalt calls Crippen action irresponsible and orders review and new water sources. Fallon, a 3000 person town east of Reno, relies on cattle farming tourism and hunting.
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Fallon
Nev
Edward Crippen
Merton Domonoske
John Marshall
Paul Laxalt
Crippen
State Board of Health
Israeli airliner attack prompts retaliation threats
The Zurich assault on an El Al Boeing 720 near Kloten airport left six of 27 aboard wounded as three Arab guerrillas and a female accomplice opened fire. An Israeli security agent killed one attacker. three Arabs were arrested. Israel warned of retaliation against Arab airlines, while Switzerland considered extradition. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility, citing Arab civilians’ suffering in occupied territories.
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Zurich
Kloten
Tel Aviv
Yoran Peres
Moshe Carmel
el al
Switzerland
Carmel
Maariv
Middle East
Carme
Lebanon
Athens
Beirut
U.S. State Department
U.N
U Thant
Thant
Israel
Lemerhay
Thesa
Bern
Amsterdam
Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine
Jordan
Odysseys of revolver unfold in Sirhan trial
Los Angeles jurors hear the arc of a .22 revolver from purchase amid civil unrest to the Kennedy shooting. Witnesses place Sirhan at a range on June 4, 1968, as the prosecution builds a premeditation case while the defense argues intoxication and confusion.
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Los Angeles
Robert F. Kennedy
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan
Sirhan
Kennedy
Ambassador Hotel
California
Albert Hertz
Alhambra
Iver Johnson &Shot
Watts
Westlake
Erhardt
Munir Sirhan
Henry Adrian Carreon
East Los Angeles College
San Gabriel Valley
Duarte
Carreon
Everett C. Buckner
Tthe
Buckner
DINAN
David Lawrence
Israel
U.S
Southea Asia
Sirshan
Apollo 9 Flight Seen as Most Complex Space Test
Air Force Col James A McDivitt leads Apollo 9 with David Scott and Russell Schweickart, bound for Cape Kennedy Feb 28 to test the lunar module in earth orbit. The two-spacecraft mission aims to dock, separate, and eventually attempt a soft lunar landing, testing two vehicles in one flight with days apart in space.
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U.S
Air Force
James A. McDivitt
Howard Benedict
Povespese
Cape Kennedy
Fla
McDivitt
David R. Scott
Russell L. Schweickart
Earth
MacDivitt
Moon
Scott
Schweickart
Divitt
LEM
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Air Environmental Imce
Provement Commission
Legislative Research Committee
By Tom Stewart
Rochambeau Club
Bugle
South Street
Biddeford
Rochambeau
Rochelle Jacobs
Robert St. Pierre
Roger Normand
Arline Boucher
Normand
Biddeford-Saco
Robert Fulton
Methodist Church
Saco
Maine Cleaners
Maine Dry Cleaners
Old Orchard Beach
Landry
Pool Road
Raoul D. Sevigny
Sevigny
MET
Bradbury Street
Helper
Paul
Motor Sales
Elm St
Tage
Hayom
Gahal Party
Robert F. Westlake
San Francisco
Hertz
George Erhardt
Pasadena
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