Unfair Labor Complaint Filed Against Biddeford School Board
The Biddeford Teachers Association filed a prohibited practice complaint with the state Public Employees Labor Relations Board alleging the Biddeford School Board has denied teachers salary increases tied to extra years of experience. The complaint, delivered at a board meeting, accuses the board of unilateral changes and bad faith bargaining during contract talks, seeking retroactive pay and continued incremental raises until a new agreement.
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Biddeford
Biddeford Teachers’ Association
Empployes Labor Relations Board
Biddeford School Board
Richard Jacques
BTA
Roseanne Cote
Peter
Labor Relations Board
Jumas
Frechetté
Portland
Hugh McMahon
Robert Hodge
John Dean Pleads Guilty To Watergate Obstruction
John W. Dean III pleaded guilty to conspiring to obstruct the Watergate investigation and agreed to cooperate with the special prosecutor. He faces a maximum five year sentence and $5,000 fine, with sentencing deferred pending future trials. Dean testified previously before the Senate Watergate Committee and implicated Nixon and others in the cover up.
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John Dean
Washington
White House
John W. Dean III
Dean
Special Watergate
Loe
Charles N. Shaffer
Special
Archibald Cox
Maureen
U.S. District Court
John J. Sirica
Fore
Sirica
Senate Watergate Committee
Democratic National Committee
Nixon
Cox
James W. McCord Jr
Atty
John N. Mitchell
Arab oil reduction used as pressure tool in Middle East crisis
Saudi Arabia says it will cut oil production by 10 percent in October and November and may halt U S shipments if Washington does not curb arms to Israel. Abu Dhabi also cuts exports. Arabs plan further 5 percent monthly cuts until Israel withdraws from 1967 territories.
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Beirut
Saudi Arabia
United States
U. S
Israel
Middle East
Faisal
United States of America
Saudi Arabian
America
Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates
Canada
Venezuela
State Department
Robert J. McCloskey
Washington
Europe
Japan
Britain
Bank of America siege ends with hostages freed in Beirut
Gunmen storm Bank of America in Beirut and hold 35 hostages, including 32 Lebanese employees, two Japanese businessmen, and an American, John Crawford Maxwell. Police and army commandos kill two gunmen and rescue 34 hostages after a daylong operation. Maxwell is killed in the final gunbattle.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Bank of America
John Crawford Maxwell
Douglas Aircraft Corp
Long Beach
Calif
Bahir Takieddin
Maxwell
Guerrila Movement
Israel
Algeria
South Yemen
Bank
Nixon Tapes Deadline II Is Today
The U S Court of Appeals gave President Nixon one week to seek Supreme Court review or turn over the Watergate tapes to Judge Sirica for secrecy verification. The majority held the President not above the law and rejected separation of powers claims.
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Washington
Nixon
Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals
U.S. District Court
John J. Sirica
Sirica
Watergate
Archibald Cox
Appeals Court
Warren Burger
Lobster Buoys Star In Drama At Cape Porpoise Harbor
Kennebunkport selectmen plan a Tuesday 7 30 p m meeting with the Cape Porpoise Harbor Committee to discuss further action on the Falley Island spindle. Coast Guard notes ongoing navigational hazards from an uncleared harbor entrance and misjudged daymarkers. A July agreement linked lighting the spindle to harbor clean up and changes to the orange daybeacon avoided confusion but has not been fulfilled.
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Kennebunkport
Cape Porpoise Harbor
Coast Guard
Falley Island
Selectmen
Coast
Goosefare Brook Seeks Higher Water Classification
Old Orchard Beach Conservation Commission votes to ask the state to upgrade Goosefare Brook from Class C to Class A to restrict waste dumping. They plan to inform State Senator Peter Danton and State Representative Leatrice Morin and protest the Maremont Corp license before the EPA as construction of treatment facilities proceeds, due by Oct. 1, 1975.
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Old Orchard Beach
Maremont Corporation
Federal Environmental Protection Agency
John Bird
Commission
State Department of Environmental Protection
Lcense
EPA
Danton
Morin
U.S
Peter N. Kyros
Maremont Corp
Inside The Journal Walt Kelly Dies Cartoonist
The Journal notes the death of Walt Kelly famed for Pogo and references a feature on Bebe Rebozo bank records under investigation while a lighthearted cartoon shows Uncle Sam as a polite figure with a large waist.
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Walt Kelly
Bebe” Rebozo
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Andrew Frechette
the Journal
Aly Shaib
Ary Movement
Columbia Hotel
Michael Spath
Kittery
Saco
K'Port
Gibbs Olco
Sanford
Biddeford-Saco
Gibbs
Central Maine Power Co
New England Telephone and Telegraph
Maine Central Railroad
Dick Morse
Lobster Buoys
Peter Kingsley
Goosefare Brook
Inside the Journal
Uncle Sam
Joe Harris
Abby
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