Watergate Epidemic Grips Washington TV Set Viewers
Washington buzzes as Watergate hearings dominate screens in the White House cloakrooms and corridors. Officials admit nerves and caution while staffers and aides watch reports, fearing fallout and hoping for concise summaries amid a mix of routine work and televised drama. Televisions blaze in government spaces though some departments remain business as usual, with briefings ongoing and workers focused on daily tasks.
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White House
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Watergate taps probe claimed by McCord amid hush requests
In furtive calls and parked cars James McCord says he repeatedly rebuffed attempts to silence him about the Watergate wiretapping as Page 2 of the paper details the surrounding coverage.
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White House Refutes Clemmency Offers in McCord Testimony
Watergate figure McCord testified that an administration aide offered executive clemency and said Nixon would be told the reply. The White House again denied clemency to anyone tied to the scandal. McCord described repeated offers by Jack Caulfield during the Watergate trial and said he refused to discuss pleading guilty. He asserted the President’s involvement and personal friendship with Caulfield colored the matter.
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Cox Named Watergate Special Prosecutor In Washington
Attorney General designate Elliot Richardson named Archibald Cox a Democrat to lead the Watergate probe. Cox, 61, former solicitor general and Harvard law professor, will choose staff but Richardson retains removal power and funding. Four ex-House aides were asked to testify on CIA and FBI roles in Watergate and related burglaries.
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Elwood Trucker Dies In Two Vehicle Crash
A Madison County two vehicle crash northeast of Elwood Friday morning killed 48 year old William R. Phillips and injured Patrick W. Davis. Phillips, a General Tire employee born in Stanford Kentucky, died from skull fractures after his truck left the highway when a front tire blew. Davis, 33 of Anderson, was treated at Mercy Hospital with chest injuries. Phillips leaves a large family and is survived by a wife, mother, six daughters, two sons, four sisters, a brother, and seven grandchildren. Services are set for Monday at Dunnichay Funeral Home with the body at the home Saturday.
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William R. Phillips
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Patrick W. Davis
Anderson
Ind. 28
Dopey
Jerry Dunnichay
Davis
Mercy Hospital
Robert
Maud) Knopp
Janie
Pat
Rich Phillips
Preston
Randy Phillips
Frances Whitaker
Lillie Ward
Canton
Ohio
Marie ‘Tompkins
Morris Hills
Jean Giselbach
Ontario
Calif
Elvie Philips
Skylab salvage mission rehearsed by astronauts at Cape
Skylab 1 astronauts Charles Conrad Jr Joseph Kerwin and Paul Weitz rehearse shade deployment to cool Skylab after damage. They target a 9 02 a m EDT launch next Friday from Cape Kennedy aboard an Apollo command ship to attach a sail shaped sun shade while ground teams test three shade types and tools to restore power and stabilize the station.
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Space Center
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Three Arrested In Slayings Of Georgia Family
Police captured three suspects in the Reynoldsville Georgia killings as they slept in a Virginia forest after fleeing a car near Yukon West Virginia. A fourth fugitive was nabbed earlier. The men face murder and related charges in the Alday family deaths and the rape and murder of the wife. The arrests followed a robbery in Slate Creek Virginia and a police chase across borders. The suspects were taken to Charleston for initial hearings before waiving extradition.
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Prince
West Virginia
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Maryland
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Reynoldsville
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Slate Creek
Yukon
Dungee
Demis Thomas
Charleston
U.S. District Court
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County Intermediate Court
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