Guard enlistments dip after draft ends in Biddeford Saco area
Local National Guard units report steady strength but fewer non-prior service enlistments now that the draft has ended. Saco’s 133rd Engineering Battalion and the 265th Mobile Communications Squadron note ongoing openings and heightened recruiting through high school events.
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National Guard
Melville Johnson
133Rd Engineering Battalion
Saco
Johnson
Saco Guard
265Th Mobile Communications Squadron
Air National Guard
Hunter
South Portland
Army
Army Reserves
Maine
Lucille Thibodeau
351St General Hospital
Thibodeau
Frank Donahue
Donahue
Vernon E. Downs
Army National Guard
Downs
Army Guard
Guard
Senate votes again on ERA in center of dispute
The Journal reports lawmakers prepared for another ERA vote on Monday with debates framed by autonomy and rights. A feature notes the phrase Live Free Or Die as a focal point in the dispute while obituaries and sports briefs fill other pages.
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Senate
Long lines as Kennebunk registry logs 2000 daily
Kennebunk residents endure frigid lines at the Registry of Motor Vehicles as about 2,000 registrants pass through daily. Officials add staff and one state trooper to speed check and form preparation amid a cooperative crowd.
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Kennebunk
Richard Amirault
State Department of the Registry of Motor Vehicles
Amirault
Nine-Point Vietnam Peace Declaration Reached at Conference
United States and North Vietnam approve a nine-point declaration to back the peace accord at the international Vietnam conference. Both sides concede, with North Vietnam dropping a veto demand and the U S allies accepting the Provisional Revolutionary Government as a conference participant. Final article notes nonrecognition between signatories. Waldheim is excluded from peacekeeping duties.
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Paris
United States
North Vietnam
Vietnam
Provisional Revolutionary
Saigon
U.N
Kurt Waldheim
Sanford POW On New List
Mrs Allan R Carpenter of Sanford said an official list names her husband Lieutenant Commander Allan R Carpenter as a prisoner of war to be released by the North Vietnamese. Carpenter, shot down over Haiphong Harbor, has been a POW since 1966, with his wife and four children awaiting his return.
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United States
Provisional Revolutionary Government
South Vietnam
Bui Tin
Washington
Saigon
U.S
North
Laos
Hanoi
Aigon
Sanford,ap
Sanford
Allan R. Carpenter
Carpenter
Haiphong Harbor
Common Cause outlines goals at York County AAUW meeting
Mrs. Carole G. Cohen of Common Cause described the national Citizens lobby and its Maine focus at Thornton Academy. The group plans to curb the Highway Trust Fund to aid urban transit, push tax reform, advocate ERA, and back railroad re use for public transport.
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Carole G. Cohen
New England
Common Cause
York County
American Association of University Women
Thornton Academy
Saco
Highway Trust Fund
Wellesly College
Maine
Cohen
B'nai B'rith
Gardner
Mediation Effort Underway as Wounded Knee Siege Prolongs
South Dakota's two senators James Abourezk and George McGovern fly toward Wounded Knee to press for release of 11 hostages held by AIM at the Lakota village. Negotiations falter as gunfire and a heavy federal presence continue amid stalled talks.
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Wounded Knee S.D
South Dakota
James Abourezk
George McGovern
Pine Ridge
Abourezk
Washington
Ellsworth Air Force Base
Rapid City
Wounded Knee
American Indian Movement
AIM
Segate
FBI
BIA
Joseph Trimbach
Minneapolis
Custer
S.C
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