Arms deal of the century shocks Maremont region
The Beloved Biddeford Saco area faces upheaval as four European buyers prepare to purchase General Merea Corp s F 16 fighters while a related Belgium gun contract threatens Maremont s plant. US officials may have used arms sales to favor a private firm prompting fears of layoffs and regional economic impact.
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France
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Maremont
Biddeford-Saco
Saco Ordnance Firm
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Holland
Norway
Belgium
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A brief weather item notes fair conditions across the region with calm winds and mild temperatures expected. No significant storms or precipitation anticipated, with slight warming toward the weekend and daytime highs around the mid 70s.
Public opinion sought on Belgian arms deal hurting Maremont
Biddeford Saco Journal invites letters to the Journal column and will forward comments to Maine delegation. News accounts say the Defense Department plans a 30 million dollar purchase of Belgian MAG-58 machine guns to entice Belgium to buy U S F-16 fighters, leaving no Maremont contract for M 60 guns and risking closure of that factory unit in 1976.
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Schlick Approval Expected Shortly
Maine Execu tive Council likely to confirm Edward C. Schlick of Auburn to the Public Utilities Commission despite opposition over his professional background. Gov Longley had pressed for the appointment after a court ruling limited the council on setting confirmation criteria amid prior rejections of Cummings and Schlick.
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Associated Press
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Auburn
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Sclick
Augusta
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Gandhi Decision Due Tuesday In India
Supreme Court justice V R Krishna Iyer said he would rule on Tuesday whether Prime Minister Indira Gandhi may stay in office during her appeal of a lower court conviction for corrupt electioneering. Arguments consumed 5 1/2 hours as Gandhi’s lawyers and opponents argued. full bench vacation delays consideration of the appeal’s merits until mid July.
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India
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White House pool funded by donations exceed cost
Joy Chiles from the White House holds a letter taped with twelve pennies reading Win. The note from James Buchanan Elementary students says they saved milk money for President Ford to swim tomorrow. The envelope has no return address. Press Secretary Ron Nessen will seek to identify the senders to thank them.
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Ron Nessen
UPI
Kidnapped children's safe return near Ostend
In KNOKKE ZOUTE Belgium police recovered 6 year old Hubert Bonnet and his 3 year old sister Ingrid 26 hours after they were abducted from their family's villa. A taxi driver led officers to an apartment where four Italians matched the suspects description had rented one unit. Father Pierre Bonnet said no ransom demand or contact followed the villa incident.
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Knokke-Zoute
Belgium
Hubert
Ingrid Bonnet
Middelkerke
Ostend
Pierre Bonnet
Bonnet
Mob clues lifted from Giancana wallet found near body
The slayer of Sam Giancana may have stolen papers from his wallet containing clues to the crime boss's secret activities. The Chicago Sun-Times said the papers may hold telephone numbers addresses and a possible hidden compartment for syndicate records. Police suspect a hit man fired seven shots from a .22 caliber pistol to prevent Giancana from testifying and to derail a Senate probe into CIA plots involving Castro. The wallet contained about 1400 dollars ruling out robbery.
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Oak Park, Ill
Sam
Momo
Giancana
Chicago Sun-Times
Crime Syndicate
Aie
Supreme Court delays death penalty ruling to 1975 term
The Supreme Court paused ruling on the death penalty, scheduling Jesse Thurman Fowler for re argument in the 1975 76 term beginning Oct. 6. Fowler, condemned to North Carolina’s gas chamber for killing John Griffin after a July 1 1973 Raleigh dice game dispute, is among 283 men and 3 women on death row in 24 states with two women in North Carolina and one in Ohio.
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Supreme Court
Jesse Thurman Fowler
Fowler
North Carolina
John Griffin
Raleigh
N.C
Ohio
Berlinguer Says PCI Has Absolute Autonomy From Kremlin
Italian Communist Party leader Enrico Berlinguer told Time magazine at Rome headquarters that the era of Kremlin issued directives to parties outside the Soviet bloc has ended. He stressed the PCI now has absolute autonomy and noted some American politicians previously failed to recognize national Communist independence.
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