Debris Search Continues Over Miami Parking Deck Collapse
Firemen combed the remains of a shattered federal office building in downtown Miami after a rooftop parking deck collapsed, killing seven and injuring fifteen. Four female FDEA workers were recovered. the other three remain inaccessible to avoid further danger. Names identified include Anna Pope, Anna Mounger, Martha Skeels, and Mary Keehan.
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Miami
VPI
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R.W. Fair
Federal Drug Enforcement Administration
FDEA
Anna J. Pope
Fort Lauderdale
Anna Y. Mounger
Martha Skeels
Mary Keehan
Electrical workers strike widens affecting 56000 at Western Electric
United Press International reports a second day of action by the IBEW against Western Electric causing idling of about 56 000 workers. The walkout may reach 80 000 across 10 plants while some IBEW members stay at five facilities.
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International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Western Electric Co
Western Electric
IBEW
Bell Telephone System
American Telephone and Telegraph
Bell System
United Auto Workers
Doraville, Ga
UAW
House to debate campaign reform across election finance
The House prepares to floor a broad election reform bill limiting candidate spending and contributions. A Federal Elections Commission would oversee provisions, funded by tax check offs for party presidential candidates and conventions. Senate candidates face spending caps tied to state population, with House panels sharing legislative control.
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UPI
House
House Rules Committee
Senate
Rules Committee
Common Cause
Federal Elections Commission
Congressional
House Administration Committee
Senate Rules and Administration Committee
Da Nang Attackers Advance As Rockets Pound City
Communist troops fired rockets at Da Nang and moved tanks toward the city as fighting intensified. Rockets hit the air base and nearby homes wounding civilians and militiamen, part of a three week offensive that has killed or wounded over 100 people. North Vietnamese tanks pressed on Duc Duc and Thuong Duc, with civilians killed and wounded, while Saigon officials warned against overrunning the south despite the push.
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Saigon
UPI
da Nang
South Vietnam
da Nang Air Base
Duc Duc
U.S
W. J. Lehmann
Thomson and Wyman call for Nixon resignation in New Hampshire
Gov. Meldrim Thomson and Rep. Louis Wyman, long Nixon allies, urged the President to resign amid Watergate disclosures. Wyman said he would vote for removal based on obstruction of justice, while Thomson cited the economy and national security as reasons to end the Watergate debacle.
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N.H
UPI
Meldrim Thomson
Louis Wyman
R-N.h
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Thomson
Wyman
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FBI
Senate
Norris Cotton
House of Representatives
Four state primaries shape today’s elections
Primary voting are held in Michigan Kansas Idaho and Missouri Kansas features Sen. Bob Dole unopposed and Gov Miller unopposed in Democratic race Missouri sen Eagleton faces Republican Curtis in a rematch while Idaho includes incumbent Orval Hansen versus George Hansen and Sen. Frank Church expected to win the Democratic nomination for Senate Idaho Governor Cecil Andrus is renominated with Lt. Gov. Murphy unopposed. Michigan hosts a three way Democratic fight to oppose Gov. Milliken amid low turnout and voter apathy elements bundled with Watergate fallout.
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United Press International
Senate
Missouri
Kansas
Idaho
Michigan
William Milliken
Watergate
Washington
Sander Levin
Milliken
Detroit
Jerome Cavanagh
James E. Wells
Orval Hansen
George Hansen
Frank Church
Cecil Andrus
Connecticut farmers face drought losses in state
Connecticut's 4,500 farmers face stunted crops unless rainfall rises. Average rainfall was 2.64 inches below normal from May to July and the first six days of August were more than two inches under the 2.68 inch August average, according to the National Weather Service bureau in Windsor Locks. George W. Simpson, execut
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Hartford, Conn
UPI
Connecticut
National Weather Service Bureau
Windsor Locks
George W. Simpson
Connecticut Farm Bureau Association
Fenton P. Futtner
Futtner
Midwest
Agriculture Department
World is better off without Carrasco says hostage chaplain
Rev. Joseph O'Brien, one of Carrasco’s hostages during the 11 day Texas penitentiary siege, says the world is better off without him. Carrasco and two confederates died after a final gunfight as prison officers breached their improvised contraption. The siege lasted 11 days, the longest in American penal history, with 12 hostages held in the library and two captors killed.
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Huntsville
Tex
UPI
Fred Gomez Carrasco
Joseph O’brien
Carrasco
O’brien
State Penitentiary
Rudolpho Dominguez
Ignacio
Elizabeth Beseda
Dominguez
Justice of the Peace
J.W. Beeler
Harris County
Nixon tapes reveal CIA role in Watergate cover up
Nixon admits withholding evidence and discusses using the CIA to blunt FBI probes. Transcripts from June 23, 1972 show Haldeman telling Nixon that Mitchell and Dean urged CIA involvement to steer investigators away, while Nixon admits omitting tape findings and acknowledging possible impeachment risks.
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FBI
Vernon Walters
L. Patrick Gray
Richard Helms
Mexico
John N. Mitchell
G. Gordon Liddy
Mitchell
Liddy
Colson
Charles Colson
John D. Ehrlichman
House Judiciary Committee
Reelection Committee
H.R. Haldeman
Wiley Mayne
Arown
Judiciary Committee
David W. Dennis
Ind
Joseph J. Maraziti
N.J
Henry Smith
N.Y
Rep
Barber Conable
R-N.y
John Mitchell
White House
John Dean
Supreme Court
U.S
John J. Sirica
Leon Jaworski
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