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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1975
Page
2
A Philadelphia family grapples with the moral burden of sustaining their 17 year old daughter Karen Quinlan on life support after two years of severe brain injury. Her mother Mrs Vikingstad voices anguish and questions whether medical intervention equates to living.
Sara Jane Moore says personal rage and protest motivated her attempted assassination of President Ford in San Francisco. In a Los Angeles Times jailhouse interview she recalls feeling isolated after radical friends shunned her and describes the attack as target practice.
France dispatched emissaries and two West African observers to northern Chad for talks aimed at freeing 48-year-old archaeologist Fran coise Claustre after 17 months in rebel captivity. Paris insists negotiations cover ransom delivery of 80 tons of military materiel no arms and 890 thousand dollars.
A log and branch blind on the tip of Cow Island in the Saco River is seen near homes on Cleaves Street Biddeford. The Board of Environmental Protection exempted temporary blinds from permits after hunter protest. Janice Langevin and Sandra Labbe, both 11, stand on the blind with the photographer expressing neighborhood pellet concerns.
Senate intelligence committee hearings question CIA legality as a secret agency. Public hearings planned on CIA mail opening after disclosure that letters to Nixon and to or from Kennedy Humphrey and Church were opened. Testimony slated from Richard Ober and Charles Brennan about domestic spying.
In Kennebec County Superior Court Pine Tree Legal Assistance challenges the Health and Welfare Department’s plan to shift funds through a rateable reduction effective Oct 1 11 000 of 23 000 AFDC families would see lower payments. State officials defend the policy arguing it follows Supreme Court guidance and preserves work incentives. Artificial distinctions between recipients and funds are rejected by critics who warn of unemployment disincentives and federal funding hurdles.
The Boston Red Sox playoff rights may move between WMEX and WIDE with WMEX set for playoffs and next season. WIDE starts fresh playoff packages including warm up, dugout interviews, game, star segment, and Dick O Connell show. NBC radio owns World Series rights. WIDE could broadcast only if WCSH declines.
Representatives of major non Communist oil exporters near a compromise to raise crude prices by about 5 percent on average. A 10 percent basic price rise with reductions in differential charges could yield the overall 5 percent increase, with Iraq Iran and others pressing for steeper gains earlier. Yamani seeks a 50 cent cut to basic crude amid U S pressure to avoid cooling the economy.
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