Canadian Soviets agree to cut fishing off east coast
Ottawa reports a resolution of the fisheries clash with the Soviet Union with Moscow backing Canada’s plan to cut foreign fishing by 40 percent off the east coast. Russian trawlers will be allowed back in ports starting Monday after a near two month ban. The talks occurred in Ottawa and Montreal.
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Canada
Allan MacEachen
Montreal
International Commission For the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries
Donald Macdonald
Pierre Trudeau
Macdonald
John Turner
Alastair Gillespie
Industry
Don Jamieson
Gillespie
Otto Lang
Ron Basford
National Revenue
Bud Cullen
Basford
Marcel Lessard
Committee To Study Claimed Budget Savings
A bipartisan Maine subcommittee will examine reported government savings to assess funds for next year’s human services. Led by Rep. Louis Jalbert and chaired by Sen. David Huber, the panel will validate savings and determine actual available funds amid earlier revenue questions tied to settlement money from a 1972 oil spill.
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Augusta
Maine
Louis Jalbert
Lewiston
Legislative Appropriations Committee
David Huber
Cumberland
Jalbert
Huber
James B. Longley
Longley
Senate
Gerard P. Conley
Portland
Conley
Portland Harbor
Illinois ward returned from Elan II treatment center
A Superior Court justice ordered the return of a minor Illinois state ward from Elan II at Poland Spring to her guardian in Illinois. Justice Reid ruled he could not keep the girl at Elan against her guardian’s wishes and noted prior limits on transfers pending treatment.
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Pierre Trudeau
Supreme Court of Canada
Auburn
Maine
Illinois
Poland Spring
James L. Reid
Androscoggin
Lewiston
Justice Reid
Elan
Illinois Department
Merger of Courts Proposed in Maine
About 100 participants at the Maine Citizens Conference on the Administration of Justice debated merging Maine’s superior and district courts to streamline processes and cut costs. Yale Prof Hazard warned of opposition and suggested trimming some small-case rights to focus on major matters. Former justice Thomas Clark endorsed death penalties for assassins of presidents but opposed capital punishment in general.
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Portland
Maine
Bert S. Prunty Jr
University of Maine School of Law
Maine Citizen
Frida
John C. McNulty
Minnesota Citizens For Court Reform
McNulty
Yale University Law
Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr
U.S. Supreme Court
Thomas Clark
Administration of Justice
Clark
Supreme Court
Harry Truman
Ramsey Clark
Saco to Delay Fire Station Help from National Guard
The City of Saco cannot rely on National Guard labor for the North Saco fire station. Dexter says training in May 1976 and weekend work would push completion to March 1977, so bids are being sought with an Oct 20 start aim on land donated by Jesse Gay.
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Saco
North
National Guard
John Dexter
Guard
Dexter
Jesse Gay
Ater
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