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...power shortage struck Cambridge along with large portions of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont yesterday morning, depriving about 400,000 people of electrical power from 10 a.m. to noon...
...resulted from deliberate precautionary measures to ensure that two power transmission problems did not snowball into an uncontrolled black-out, Paul Harprey, a spokesman for the Rhode Island, Eastern Massachusetts, Vermont Energy Control (REMVAC), said yesterday...
Wednesday afternoon, local officials: Governors John Evans of Idaho, Joe Garrahy of Rhode Island, Tom Judge of Montana, Ed King of Massachusetts, Dick Riley of South...
...Straus and two colleagues, Richard Gelles of the University of Rhode Island and Susanne Steinmetz of the University of Delaware, began what they believe is the first national survey of all types of family violence. They picked their subjects from every walk of life and all parts of the country; 2,143 family members were interviewed. Out of this study, which will be published in the fall as an eleven-chapter book titled Behind Closed Doors: A Survey of Family Violence in America (Doubleday), they offer a dismal statistical portrait of American family life. Highlights...
...many states, including Georgia, Kentucky and Rhode Island, Governors kept trucks moving by calling out the police or the National Guard for protection. In the Midwest the truckers disrupted deliveries of gas and diesel oil for stations in eight states. After independents blocked fuel storage depots in Green Bay, Wis., Governor Lee Dreyfus declared a state of emergency, and police ordered the line of trucks removed. Said Dreyfus Aide Bill Kraus: "The truckers found the aorta and put their thumb on it, but the gas is now going everywhere again...