Longley and Solons Seek Quick Budget Fix in Maine
Gov. James B. Longley and legislative leaders reach a package plan to trim the second year education spending by seven million, rebating coastal property tax impacts, and raise corporate income tax collection earlier to cover a twelve million deficit. Bond rates and a ten point six million school construction bond issue raise constitutional questions as LD 1994 revision aims for May 31 budget deadlines.
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Augusta
James B. Longley
David Huber
R-Falmouth
Appropriations Committee
John P. O'Sullivan
Finance and Administration
Martin
Vietnamese Wife Remains in Bangor After Discovery of Husband's New Marriage
Vu Thi Lan, a 24-year-old Vietnamese refugee with a 5-year-old daughter, will stay in Bangor while Dist. Atty. David Cox seeks a living and working arrangement. Green, 27, reportedly remarried after a 1970 marriage. legal action may wait until she and her family have housing. Lan, evacuated from Saigon, fears returning to Vietnam and has lived in Bangor since arrival via several stops.
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Bangor
Dist
David Cox
Cox
Vu Thi Lan
Maine
Lisa Marie
David
Michael E. Green
da Nang
Green
Bangor Daily News
Wu Thi Lan
California
199Th Light Infantry Brigade
U.S
Vietnam
Saigon
Philippines
Guam
Honolulu
San Francisco
Panel Approves N H Vote Machines
In Manchester Republican protests aside, staff on the U S Senate Rules Committee affirmed the accuracy of 12 voting machines used in the tight New Hampshire senate race. Democratic counsel James Duffy said 11 ballots confirmed proper function of candidate counters, while Republican counsel James Schoener urged broader checks including public and protective counters to tally total and participant use.
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Manchester
N.H
U.S
Senate Rules Committee
New Hampshire
Senate
James Duffy
Louis C. Wyman
Rules Committee
Wyman
John A. Durkin
Duffy
James Schoener
Committee
Manhunt Underway In Auburn Jail Break
Two inmates from Androscoggin County jail, Roland Dube Jr. and Stanley Osnoe, escaped during a break in which Deputy Rudolph Dufresne was shot in the chest. A third inmate was captured. a roadblock was set between Lewiston and Auburn as authorities pursue the pair and determine if a vehicle awaited them.
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Auburn
Androscoggin County
Rudolph Dufresne
St. Mary's General Hospital
Roland W. Dube Jr
Jay
Stanley Osnoe
Turner
Dube
U.S. District Court
Osnoe
Defresne
Lewiston
Gulf Stream missing vessel case closed
The Coast Guard closed the Gulf Stream disappearance case. A January inquiry found the 54-foot Florida owned research vessel sank in the Gulf of Maine around January 7 due to adverse weather and the crew’s informal home-base reporting. No single cause was determined and no further action was taken.
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Portland
Coast Guard
Maine
Gulf of Maine
Boothbay Harbor
Michael R. Perkins
Gulf Stream
Nova University
Ft. Lauderdale
Fla
Bigelow Laboratories
Cape Anne
Mass
James Riddle
Dania, Fla
William B. Campbell
Buffalo Creek flood survivors haunted by lifetime psychic damage
Researchers report lasting trauma among Buffalo Creek survivors three years after the 1972 disaster that killed 118 and left 4,000 homeless. The study, presented at the American Psychiatric Association, describes persistent fear, nightmares, and a fractured sense of community amidst ongoing legal action against Pittston Coal Co.
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Anaheim
Calif
Buffalo Creek Hollow
W.va
Appalachian Valley
American Psychiatric Association
Robert Jay Lifton
Yale University
Hiroshima
Buffalo Creek
Pittston Coal Co
Peanuts Found in Peru by Spanish Explorers
Spanish explorers first found peanuts in Peru during the sixteenth century and peanuts now are grown on about 42 million acres worldwide.
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Peru
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John L. Marlin
Rodney Scribner
Longley
Janey
Debt Service
Wu Thi Lan Green
Lisa and
Bank Americard. Elliott's
Home Furnishings & Carpet Centers
Saga
Elliott
Lady Elliott
THE
United Stains Opamerica
Lnoton
Casco Bank
Casco Auto
Casco
John
Sylvia Finnemore
South Channel Bridge
Skowhegan
Finnemore
Vocational Department
Skowhegan Area High School
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