Suez Canal Reopens Under Sadat With Peace Pledge
President Sadat reopened the Suez Canal announcing it a peace channel for world trade while vowing to liberate Arab lands from Israeli occupation. He said the canal would link the world and aid prosperity as shipping resumes after 1967 closure.
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Port Said
Egypt
Anwar Sadat
Suez Canal
Sadat
Ering
Suez
Israel
Tel Aviv
Gad Yaacobi
Puffins Return To Seal Island In Maine Canada Dispute
Puffins and other seabirds nest during the summer on Machias Seal Island a 25 acre outcrop nine miles off Maine and 11 miles from Grand Manan Island. The site is a Canadian sanctuary with a lighthouse and attendant. ownership remains disputed under the 1783 Treaty of Paris while both nations allow visits and birdwatching cruises.
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Machias Seal Island
Canada
United States
Maine
New Brunswick
Grand Manan Island
Stanley Green
Biddeford Firm Seeks Expansion Of Plant And Growth
Shape Symmetry and Sun Inc a Biddeford plastics firm negotiates with the Small Business Administration to acquire a 20 000 square foot building in the Biddeford Industrial Park once owned by the bankrupt C M Thornton Co The project aims to house Shape s growth machinery division while aiding repayment to Canal Bank SBA and the local development group Shape founded in 1973 expanded from 10 000 to 18 000 square feet last fall and may use the vacant building to continue growth and plastics production including cassette reel components for music industry clients.
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Shape, Symmetry and Sun, Inc
Biddeford
The
Small Business Administration
C. M. Thornton Company
Shape
Pot Planes Run Aground As Smugglers Struggle
MIAMI AP says about 150 airplanes laden with marijuana cross the U S border daily but an increasing number fail their illicit missions. Officials cite overloading and rough landings on improvised strips, noting 49 crashes since January 1 linked to marijuana traffic. Jamaica crackdown, Operation Buccaneer, seized 730,000 pounds of marijuana and 8,083 pounds of seeds.
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Miami
United States
Jacques Kiere
Federal
Drug Enforcement Intelligence Agency
Kiere
David Costa
Federal Drug Enforcement Agency
Costa
Biddeford Nursing Home Tackles State Demands
Maine Health and Welfare imposed nearly a dozen rules on Good Shepherd Villa Nursing Home in Biddeford after a meeting with state officials. The home must document staffing and patient-care standards, with a federal HEW survey due in August and an internal audit to verify Medicaid cost charges. Barbara Foss, new administrator, says requirements are routine and aims to improve communication and documentation.
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Maine
Department of Health and Welfare
Good Shepherd Villa
Biddeford
Nursing Home Administration
Elaine Fuller
Hospital Services Division
Ot Health and Welfare
Fuller
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
State Department
Division of Internal Audit
Good Shepherd
Barbara Foss
Foss
Sout Street
Britons Vote in Historic Referendum on Market Status
London AP reports Britons began voting in their first referendum to decide whether to stay in the European Common Market. Polls forecast a 2-1 favoring stay with over 40 million eligible voters across the United Kingdom. Counting starts Friday morning and results expected by Friday afternoon.
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London
England
Scotland
Wales
Northern Ireland
European Economic Community
EEC
Britain
Charles de Gaulle
France
Harold Wilson
Wilson
Edward Heath
Waycott Development Must Gain BEP Approval, Court Rules
A Maine Superior Court judge ruled Saco developer Leroy Waycott must obtain BEP approval under the site selection law before continuing Hillview Heights subdivision work on Buxton Road. The decision covers Hillview Heights Sections 1 and 2 plus Pinegrove and Sherwood developments, finding the combined parcels exceed 20 acres and are not grandfathered.
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Susan Morrison
Saco
Leroy Waycott
Board of Environmental Protection
BEP
Onone
Hillview Heights
Buxton Road
Superior Court
Harry Glassman
Waycott
Attorney General's Office
Saco Construction Co
Pinegrove Corp
Pinegrove
Sherwood Development Corp
Sherwood
Saco Planning Aid
Glassman
Plan Board
Cott
Pinegrove and Sherwood
Iran central banker eyes 30 to 35 percent oil price rise
Tehran governor Mohammed Yeganeh warned at a news conference that OPEC may lift crude prices 30 to 35 percent in September to offset dollar losses. He heads Iran’s delegation to the Libreville OPEC meeting and expects a decision there. He said industrial nations’ inflation and rising costs justify the move. The price hike would hit OPEC buyers as the dollar’s buying power erodes.
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Tehran
Iran
New Central Bank
Toay
Mohammed Yeganeh
Yeganeh
Libreville
OPEC
Today’s Chuckle Ecstasy for empty-nest parents
A lighthearted jab notes that when children marry and move out, parents often feel a surprising happiness called ecstasy. The quip frames the empty nest as a comic twist on parental sentiment.
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