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...company, which publishes the morning Providence Journal and the Evening Bulletin, sought the files over Justice Department objections in the belief that they might show links between organized crime and Rhode Island government and business leaders...
...Tuesday the women harriers will host Rhode Island at 3:30 p.m. at Franklin Park. To see this and all cross-country meets in person, take Massachusetts Avenue all the way into Boston, where you turn left on Columbus Avenue, which runs into Franklin Park...
...consumers with a nuclear-generated kwh. for 1.239?, or less than half the 2.596? for a kwh. generated by fossil fuels. A resident of Connecticut, which draws 60% of its electric power from nuclear plants, pays an average of $25.13 for 500 kwh. a month. A resident of neighboring Rhode Island, which gets only 14% of its power from nukes, pays $30.34 for the same amount...
...August 4, Freshman Republican John Chafee of Rhode Island called on his Senate colleagues to vote down any further appropriations for the project. Said he: "That Mussolini-style building is an outrage." The Senate defeated his proposal by a vote of 49 to 25. Aside from the attractions of extravagance and the power of bureaucratic inertia, supporters of the building argued that it was required because of the threefold increase in the Senate staff since the last Senate offices were constructed 20 years ago. This increase, they said, was due largely to the Senate's efforts to build...
President Carter has threatened to veto any tuition tax credit measure, preferring instead to step up aid in the form of direct federal grants and loans to post-secondary school students. His own proposal, sponsored by Rhode Island Democrat Claiborne Pell, passed the Senate by a 68-to-28 count, barely 14 hours after the tax credit vote. After the Pell measure was okayed, Oklahoma Republican Henry Bellmon chided his colleagues, declaring: "I cannot imagine why we would pass two bills on two successive days to accomplish essentially the same objective." As it happens, the House-which approved...