Hard dollar choices facing City Council
City budget decisions loom large as the School Board plans a more than 4 tax increase, even before municipal and police budgets are set. City Manager Calvin A. Canney explains the council's three budgeting forms and notes limited maneuver room due to school closures and staff cuts. A zero increase would force service losses, while state funding cuts shift police and fire retirement costs onto cities, estimating about $50,000 for Portsmouth.
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Calvin A. Canney
Canney
Portsmouth
Coal contract goes to miners
Washington AP reports a tentative union contract narrowly approved by the United Mine Workers bargaining council heads to the coalfields amid a 101 day strike. The close 22-17 vote shows concern that 160,000 striking miners may reject it, despite concessions on health benefits and anti wildcat strikes. A prior deal failed with rank and file. Dozens of striking miners protested at UMW headquarters.
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Washington
United Mine Workers
Rank and File
UMW
Israeli warplanes target southern Lebanon amid border strip clash
In TEL AVIV warplanes hit southern Lebanon to disable Palestinian artillery firing on Israeli border villages. Lebanon seeks an emergency U.N. Security Council session as tensions rise along the six mile security strip. In Concord New Hampshire the Executive Council rejected the Probation Board’s bid to dismiss John A. King, keeping the state probation director in place by a 4 to 0 vote despite Senate President Alf Jacobson’s opposition.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Lebanon
U.N. Security Council
Concord
N.H
New Hampshire
Aldo Moro Kidnapped in Rome by Gunmen
In Rome former Premier Aldo Moro, 61, was abducted from a street by gunmen who killed all five members of his protective escort. The attackers claimed by telephone to be from the Red Brigades, Italy’s feared urban guerrilla group. Some witnesses saw gunmen in air force-style uniforms.
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Rome
Aldo Moro
Italy
Christian Democrat
Red Brigades
Seabrook Nuclear Fight Reaches Appeals Board
The United States federal appeals board reopens review of environmental activists bid to halt Seabrook nuclear plant construction on New Hampshire's coast. The lengthy seven year regulatory and court battle continues with a board meeting planned for today.
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Washington
Seabrook
New Hampshire
Soviet Cosmonauts End Record Space Mission in Kazakhstan
Moscow reports Yuri Romanenko and Georgy Grechko landed the Soyuz 27 capsule at 1 19 p m Moscow time after a 9 percent day mission that set the record for the longest manned space flight. Both cosmonauts are in good condition.
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Moscow
Yuri Romanenko
Georgy Grechko
Earth
Tass
Romanenko
Grechko
Kazakhstan
Central Asia
Barge Grounding Closes Long Island Sound Area
A barge carrying 10.5 million gallons of gasoline ran aground in Watch Hill Rhode Island, spilling about 10,000 gallons into the water. The Coast Guard closed a 150 square mile stretch of Long Island and Block Island sounds from Fishers Island to Point Judith, extending five miles south over the water.
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Watch Hill, R.I
Coast Guard
Long Island
Block Island Sounds
Fishers Island
N.Y
Point Judith
R.I
Governor’s Mansion Renovation Contract Awarded
New Hampshire Governor Meldrim Thomson and the Executive Council approved an $80,000 renovation package for the official residence in Concord. Smith Construction Corp. of Goffstown received the contract after bids exceeded the grant, forcing scale-down of original plans per Associate Highway Commissioner John Flanders.
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Concord
N.H
Meldrim Thomson
Executive Council
Smith Construction Corp
Goffstown
John Flanders
Commerce ban on cod and haddock fishing imposed
The U S Commerce Department prohibits commercial fishing for cod and haddock from midnight this Sunday to midnight March 31 to protect the species. Fishermen doubt effectiveness while suppliers warn the move will disrupt operations and may force layoffs.
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Boston
U.S. Commerce Department
Second cargo ship to haul scrap from state pier
The Liberian bulk carrier Philippe will arrive March 24 to take about 20,000 tons of No 1 scrap from Portsmouth's waterfront. The Lunar Venture nears completion of loading its similar cargo and is expected to depart soon for Greece to melt down the metal into usable steel.
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State Pier
Portsmouth Herald
Philippe
Portsmouth
Greece
Hearing set on PSC rate in Maine
The Maine Public Utilities Commission schedules a March 29 prehearing conference in Augusta to address complaints about New Hampshire Public Service Co. rates in Maine. Prompted by a 1976 filing from Kittery, Eliot, and 1,748 Maine customers, the case seeks issue resolution amid a heavy docket and considers a possible Central Maine Power takeover of PSC operations.
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Maine
Augusta
Maine Public Utilities Commission
New Hampshire Public Service Co
PUC
Kittery
Eliot
PSC
Central Maine Power Co
The
Central Maine Power
Senators edge toward Panama Treaty vote as Carter pushes
Senators echoed a rising confidence for ratification of the canal treaty while President Carter pressed uncommitted members. Senator Zorinsky weighed his decision after White House talks, with others like Randolph Burdick Hatfield and Bellman undecided. Informal polls showed about 65 to 69 votes likely, as Laxalt signaled focus on blocking the second treaty and preserving leverage over the transfer timeline.
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Edward Zorinsky
D-Neb
Carter
White House
Zorinsky
Jennings Randolph
West Virginia
Quentin Burdick
North Dakota
Paul G. Hatfield
Montana
Henry Bellman
Oklahoma
United States
Panama
U.S
Bellman
Burdick
Senate
Bob Packwood
Oregon
Packwood
Laxalt
School Board defends closing of 3 Portsmouth schools
Portsmouth School Board defends its plan to close three elementary schools Sherburne Lafayette and Atlantic Heights to reduce the budget by about a quarter of a million dollars annually. Students will transfer mainly to Pease base schools Dondero and Little Harbour with cooperation from base officials on transportation and parent concerns.
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Tgp
Sullivan
Timothy Monahan
Monahan
Sherburne
Lafayette
Atlantic Heights
Pease Schools
Dondero School
Elwyn Park
Little Harbour
Petition campaign fails to deflect two Canal votes
New Hampshire signatures could not sway Senator Thomas McIntyre or Senator John Durkin as they voted to ratify the Panama Canal treaties. Gov. Meldrim Thomson reported 17,500 new signatures for a total of 48,500 opposing ratification, but a UPI tally showed 65 senators in favor, 28 against, and seven uncommitted. Durkin had already pledged support before McIntyre's stance became public.
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Meldrim Thomson
Thomas J. Mcintyre
D-N.h
Washington
New Hampshire
Sen. McIntyre
Thomson
United Press International
Durkin
McIntyre
Trustees argue over UNH letters at Plymouth meeting
Trustees debated campus communications over UNH issues with chairman Morse defending official letters while Nathan Battles urged broader outreach. The stalled dispute retraced a February vote granting trustees access to classes and touched on Thomas column criticism and a Rock monitoring plan.
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Plymouth
Jack Thomas
University System Trustees
Nathan Battles
Board
Richard Morse
Battles
Morse
Boston Globe
New Hampshire
Thomas
UNH
D. Alan Rock
Eugene Mills
Rock
Mills
Additional land urged for industry in urban park plan
The Economic Commission seeks about 65 acres to expand the industrial park with a UDAG grant of 700000. The land would be banked for five years to await park demand while Data General contemplates a 100000 square foot expansion needing another access road.
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the Economic Commission
Robert Benson
Tamposi and
Nash of
Nashua
Data General
Commission
Michael Kensley
UDAG
Benson
Nother
Ernest Kemwood
Armand
Kenslea
Calvin A. Canney
Canney
Banfield Rad
Schlitz Brewing Indicted Over $1 Million Kickbacks
Milwaukee AP report states Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. face three felony tax fraud counts for deducting illegal payments to taverns hotels and others to boost beer sales from 1972 to 1974. The grand jury also charged 743 misdemeanor counts of conspiring to violate the Alcohol Administration Act and one blanket count. No individuals named.
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Milwaukee
Jos
State Department of Revenue
U.S. Internal Revenue Service
Nick Nichols
Wisconsin Department of Revenue
Schlitz
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