Thomson's backers flood NH gubernatorial race with cash
Gov. Meldrim Thomson has about 187000 in his committee funds, far ahead of Democratic rivals Delbert Downing and Hugh Gallen. Major gifts come from Yankee Greyhound Inc and Wheelabrator Frye executives. Downing and Gallen report far smaller sums, with several large donors named. The September filing deadline approaches as campaigns tally contributions and expenditures.
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Concord
N.H
Meldrim Thomson
New Hampshire
Thomson
Yankee Greyhound, Inc
N. Delbert Downing
D-Salem
Hugh Gallen
Downing
Gallen
Yankee Greyhound
Wheelabrator
Frye
James Hayes
Edward Keelan
Joseph Carney
Thomas Carney
Garyee
Paul Montrone
B.W. Moore
Michael Dingman
Samuel Wesley Powell
Nashua
Lucille Lapinskas
Powell
Joseph Coors
Coors Breweries
Colorado
Joseph Graziano
Tyco Labs
Republican National Governor's Committee
Conservative National Committee
Richard Viguerie
National Conservative Caucus
Carter completes three day raft trip on Salmon River
President Carter finishes a three day rafting and camping trip along the Salmon River in Idaho. After breaking camp at Elk Bar the party heads toward the Impassable Canyon and ends their voyage at the confluence with the Middle Fork before traveling to Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
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Salmon River
Idaho
Carter
Middle Fork
Wyoming
Grand Teton National Park
Elk Bar
Fire damages Falmouth Playhouse but show goes on
An early morning blaze at the Falmouth Playhouse damaged the kitchen basement and lobby but spared the stage and props. Fire Capt. Fred Crocker reported the fire beginning around 2 a.m. and confirmed the production would continue. In a separate note, Coast Guard cutters searched Massachusetts Bay for a 25-foot sailboat with a man and woman overdue by 16 hours, including George McQueen recalling his missing wife Margaret and John Vieira, 50, as the missing man.
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Falmouth
Mass
Falmouth Playhouse
Fred Crocker
Marblehead
Coast Guard
Massachusetts Bay
George McQueen
Sudbury
Margaret
John Vieira
Acton
Soviet Foreign Ministry warns two reporters in slander case
The Soviet Foreign Ministry told American reporters Craig R. Whitney of The New York Times and Harold D. Piper of The Baltimore Sun they deserved to lose their accreditation but will face only a formal warning. It cited their payment of penalties as a factor in mending U.S.-Soviet relations.
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Moscow
Foreign Ministry Today
Craig R. Whitney
New York Times
Harold D. Piper
The
Baltimore Sun
New Hampshire fastest-growing state in Northeast
Concord based AP report cites the New Hampshire Office of State Comprehensive Planning showing population rose 19 percent since the 1970 census to 877,592, making the state the fastest growing in the Northeast and second fastest east of the Mississippi.
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Concord
N.H
New Hampshire
Mississippi
State Office of State Comprehensive Planning
Rath criticizes rival for Seabrook protest stance in New Hampshire
Attorney General Thomas D. Rath publicly rebuked Rockingham County Attorney Carleton Eldredge for suggesting the state back away from policing Seabrook demonstrations. Rath warned law enforcement must uphold the law, while Eldredge and Sheriff Sampson claimed they could handle small protests without arrests. State Police will be sent to future Seabrook protests.
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Concord
N.H
Thomas D. Rath
Rockingham County
Carleton Eldredge
Seabrook
Rath
Eldredge
Manchester Union
George Sampson
Vandalism concerns mobilize Echo Avenue residents
About 70 residents from Echo Avenue to Meadow Road met at St. Catherine's Church to form a Neighborhood Alert program after repeated vandalism. Police Captain Labrie and Sgt. Fracher outlined zones and a two-person volunteer neighborhood patrol to deter vandalism and future thefts, stressing no vigilante action.
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Echo Avenue
Woodbury Avenue
St. Catherine's Church
Meadow Road
Hillcrest Drive
Clover Lane
Raymond Labrie
Michael Fracher
Labrie
Noisy dawn tanker departures from Pease Aug 28
Fifteen KC-135 aircraft set for early morning takeoffs from Pease between 4:31 and 5:31 a.m. on August 28 as part of a tanker task force supporting NATO exercises in Europe. The event aids fighter aircraft deployment under NATO agreements. The second item notes Louise Joy Brown, born July 25 1978 at Oldham General Hospital near Manchester, photographed soon after birth as the first test tube baby conceived via in vitro fertilization.
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Pease
Europe
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Louise Joy Brown
Oldham General Hospital
Man
Chester
England
Court delays case for seven Clamshell Alliance members
Criminal trespass and disorderly conduct charges against seven Clamshell Alliance members were continued in District Court after Special Justice Douglas R. Gray recused himself amid concerns about conflict of interest. Twelve face trespass for entering Public Service Company property and six for outward demonstration. The court action affects 18 of the 30 planned in relation to the nuclear site protest, with hearings set for Aug. 31 for the rest.
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Hampton
Clamshell Alliance
Alliance
Eldgredge
Public Service Company
Sharon Tracy
Great Bay Alliance
Dover
Maine Clamshell Alliance
Concord Energy Alliance
Gray
H. Alfred Casassa
Mailmen on brink of walkout
Washington AP reports a postal strike risk as the National Association of Letter Carriers rejects a July tentative pact 78 000 to 59 000 and vows to renegotiate. Votes by other unions, APW and Mail Handlers, are due this week with similar outcomes possible.
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Washington
U.S. Postal Service
National Association of Letter Carriers
NALC
J. Joseph Vacca
William F. Bolger
Lacxene App
Bolger
Postal Service
Vacca
American Postal Workers Uion
Laborers’ International Union
Laborers’ International Union — Is Expected By Saturday. the Fourth Postal Union
Plans Offered to Convert Farragut Building to Senior Housing
Ten proposals from private companies to convert the 75 year old Farragut high school into elderly housing were submitted to HUD for selection. The plan envisions 60 to 70 housing units with about $7 million in seven year rent subsidies and city tax benefits. HUD funds and Section 8 rental assistance would apply.
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Farragut
Federal Housing and Urban Development Agency
John Whalen
Portsmouth
E City
Whalen
HUD
U.S
Thomas McIntyre
Environmentalists Lose Key Seabrook Case in Boston Court
Karin Sheldon lawyer for the New England Coalition Against Nuclear Pollution says the Boston circuit court decision allowing Seabrook construction is a major defeat. She identified no further roadblocks and does not plan to appeal to the Supreme Court after more than six years of work on the case.
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Concord
N.H
Seabrook
Karin Sheldon
New England Coalition Against
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Boston
Second Clamshell protest planned at Seabrook site
Seabrook nuclear plant work resumes on a 2.3 billion project as Great Bay Clamshell Dover Concord Area Energy Alliance and Maine Clamshell plan a 8 am Friday non violent civil disobedience near the main gate. Eighteen Clamshell members were arrested earlier this month and some to face criminal trespass charges. Public Service Co. officials say the circuit court decisions uphold NRC authority and remove roadblocks to completion while environmentalists face costs.
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Seabrook — Clamshell Alliance
Seabrook
Great Bay Clamshell
Dover
Concord Area Energy Alliance
Maine Clamshell
Hampton District Court
Circuit Court
Environmental Protection Agency
Public Service Co
Federal Appeals Court
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Public Service
Gordon McKenney
Publi Service
David N. Merrill
NRC
High court to rule on Sunset Act power clash
New Hampshire Supreme Court will review the clash between Gov. Meldrim Thomson and the Legislature over the Sunset Act. House Speaker George B. Roberts Jr. says a ruling should settle questions, while aide Marshall Cobleigh notes Thomson welcomes the test. The House voted unanimously to seek the court’s opinion on the act’s constitutionality.
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Concord
N.H
Meldrim Thomson
New Hampshire
State Supreme Court
Supreme Court
House
George B. Roberts Jr
R-Gilmanton Iron Works
Marshall W. Cobleigh
Thomson
New Hampshire House
Department of Health and Welfare
State Crime Commission
University of New Hampshire
Cobleigh
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