Collapse Blamed On Construction Failures In West Virginia Disaster
A House hearing aired Interior findings that the Buffalo Mining coal waste dam in Buffalo Creek failed due to improper design and weak foundations. The 21 million cubic feet of water overwhelmed the area, killing at least 117. Inspectors admitted lapses, prompting calls for dam identification and corrective action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Secretary of the Interior
Hollis M. Dole
House
Logan County
W. Va
Department
Interior Department
Buffalo Mining Company
Buffalo Creek Hollow
House Mines and Mining Subcommittee
Dole
Phillip Burton
D-Calif
Buffalo Mining Co
Pittston Co
Citizens’ Commission
West Virginia
Arch A. Moore Jr
Coal Company
Commission
E. J. Wood
Buffalo
ITT Chief to Provide Group with File Destruction List
ITT President Harold S. Geneen pledged to furnish the Senate Judiciary Committee with a list of files destroyed at ITT’s Washington office. The dispute centers on a memorandum allegedly written by ITT lobbyist Dita Beard and its link to a settlement in antitrust suits and ITT’s San Diego pledge ahead of the Republican National Convention. Geneen denied any connection to the San Diego funding and said some documents were shredded in response to public file access concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Geneen
International Telephone and Telegraph Corp
ITT
San Diego
Geneen
Senate Judiciary Committee
Washington (Ap
Harold S. Geneen
International Telephone & Telegraph Corp
Washington
Dita Beard
New York
Jack Anderson
Beard
Senate
Richard G. Kleindienst
Atty
John N. Mitchell
California
Anderson
Phillip Hart
D-Mich
Edward M. Kennedy
Massachusetts
John Tunney
Marlon W. Cook
Kentucky
Charles Mathias
Maryland
Edward Gurney
Florida
Tunney
Robert Stockdale
Welfare Audit Measure Set for House Vote in Ohio
In Columbus AP report, a bill to create a legislative auditor to review welfare expenditures heads to a House vote. The measure trails a parallel move on welfare ID cards and comes amid debates over strip mine amendments and other welfare reform efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Ohio House
Senate Urban and Highway Affairs Committee
Natural Resources
William Nye
House
Ohio Savings and Loan Associations
Senate
Viet Attacks Increase in South Vietnam Coastal Lowlands
In the coastal lowlands near Da Nang the Viet attacks rose to 41 in 24 hours, with Quang Ngai Province suffering 31 KIA and 44 WIA as 57 homes, a pagoda, and a school were damaged. In Binh Dinh Province 10 NVA and 5 ARVN died. Saigon reports a fourth major Communist camp destroyed in eastern Cambodia.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Cambodia
Quang Ngai
da Nang
Binh Dinh
Agnew defends Wallace amid primary debates and innuendo
Vice President Spiro Agnew criticizes unfair innuendo about George Wallace while noting no radicalism in his Florida primary campaign. Wallace won 42 percent in Florida with Humphrey second, and Wisconsin and Illinois contests loom with Muskie and McGovern also vying for delegates.
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Spiro T. Agnew
Alabama
George Wallace
Florida
Agnew
Drake University
Des Moines
Wallace
Sen
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Henry Jackson
Washington
Edmund
Muskie
Maine
Wisconsin
Patsy Mink
Hawaii
Illinois
George McGovern
South Dakota
Eugene J. McCarthy
Bomb defusal team killed in Belfast car blast
In Belfast, Sgts. Christopher R. Cracknell and Arthur Butcher were killed while defusing two bombs in a parked car in a Catholic district. A third bomb exploded, leaving the two experts dead and the death toll for British troops in Northern Ireland rising to 275 in 31 months.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Christopher R. Cracknell
Arthur
Butcher
Cracknell
Howard Hughes Still In Vancouver Hotel
Howard Hughes remains in the Bayshore Inn Vancouver top floor despite rumors of a U S return. Canadian official John Jackson noted Hughes entered Canada at Vancouver airport aboard a Hughes Tool Co executive jet and described a pepper and salt hair style with a light mustache.
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Vancouver
B.C
Howard Hughes
United States
Richard Hannah
Los Angeles
Hughes
Bayshore Inn
Canada
Vancouver International
Hughes Tool Co
John Jackson
Turner B. Shelton
U.S
Nicaraagua
Shelton
Nicarauguan
Anastasia Somoza
Manaugua
Jackson
Action Ad promises fast buyers reach in 16000 homes
Advertisers tout a rapid sale method by placing an action style ad. The pitch emphasizes daily distribution to more than 16,000 households and a responsive audience, urging readers to try the service now.
Secret stamps questioned in Bicentennial planning probe
Washington AP A congressional subcommittee questions why the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission has authority to stamp documents top secret secret and confidential Moorhead asks if secrecy serves hidden costs or errors LeVant says authority exists while commission denies secret use Buser insists no secrecy has been requested and LeVant is unavailable for comment
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Commission Planning
America
William S. Moorhead
D-Pa
House
Government Information Subcommittee
Jack LeVant
Commission
Moorhead
Hugh A. Hall
LeVant
Dan Buser
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Bureau of Mines
Buffalo Creek
Wood
Kleindienst
Marlow W. Cook
R-Ky
Cook
Judiciary Committee
Opal Ginn
James O. Eastland
D-Miss
Denver
Robert Schuck
R-5
Findlay
John Gilligan
Ohio Department of Mental Hygiene and Correction
Warrensville Township
Cuyahoga County
Board of Commissioners
Soldiers Relief Committee
Richard Reichel
Massillon
Hubert Humphrey
Milwaukee Labor Council
Gov. Wallace
Muskie and McGovern
McGovern
Muskie and
McCarthy
al Hirt
Richmond
Medical College of Virginia
Hirt
Cincinnati
Cincinnati Area
Burger, Hudepohl and Schoenling
Widemann
Newport
Curtis W. Tarr
Tarr
Messenger
Cret
Bicentennial Commission
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