Nixon Restructures White House Staff Amid Shakeup
President Nixon announced a major staff reorganization. Gen. Alexander Haig will retire from the Army and serve as chief of staff, Melvin Laird becomes domestic affairs counselor and NSC member, and Ronald Ziegler adds the title assistant to the President while handling policy meetings and press duties.
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Washington
Nixon
White House
Army
Alexander M. Haig Jr
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Johnn P. Ehrlichman
Haig
Henry A. Kissinger
Haldeman
Laird
U.S. House
Wisconsin
Sloan Testimony Conflicts With Mitchell Statements
Former Nixon campaign treasurer Hugh Sloan Jr testifies at the Senate Watergate hearings that Atty. Gen. John Mitchell decided campaign spending nearly a year before leaving the Justice Department, contradicting Mitchell’s prior sworn statements. Sloan says aides dismissed his warnings about financial links between the campaign and Watergate. He also recalls Maurice Stans saying I don’t know.
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Washington
Nixon
Hugh Sloan Jr
Atty
John N. Mitchell
Justice Department
Mitchell
Sloan
Senate
Maurice Stans
G. Gordon Liddy
Liddy
Herbert W. Kalmbach
Kalmbach
Harry Flemming
Flemming
Robert C. Odle
International Telephone and Telegraph Co
White House
Gerald Warren
Watergate
Archibald W. Cox
Biddeford Man Held In Belanger Murder
Lawrence G. DeWitt twenty three of Biddeford was arrested in Belle Fourche South Dakota on a fugitive from justice warrant in connection with the 1972 stabbing death of Diane Belanger of Biddeford. Belanger body found July fifteenth in her Washington Street apartment with multiple stab wounds. Autopsy and medical examiner indicated she had been dead about a week. DeWitt had been named last May in a York County grand jury indictment for murder.
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Augusta
Lawrence G. DeWitt
Biddeford
Belle Fourche
M.D
Diane Belanger
DeWitt
Butte County
Joe Smith
York County
Miss Belanger
Washington Street
Bell Fourche
North Marlboro
Mass
Kennebunk Plastics
DEP forwards Waycott site selection case to AG for possible prosecution
The State Department of Environmental Protection referred developer Leroy Waycott’s alleged failure to file a Sit Hi application for the Kview Heights project in Saco to the State Attorney General for possible prosecution. Waycott’s lawyer Roger Elliott denied any site selection law applicability and DEP said Waycott refused to file after an investigation. Assistant Attorney General Steven Murray said he would review Hillview Heights to decide if prosecution is warranted.
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State Department of Environmental Protection
Leroy Waycott
Kview Heights
Saco
State Attorney General's Office
Atty
Roger Elliott
Waycott
DEP
David Leake
Department
Attorney General's Office
Leake
Asst
Stevenurray
Hillview
General Gets Waycott Case Prosecution Nears
Murray says a York County Superior Court prosecution could be filed to challenge site selection compliance with DEP. If pursued, the suit would seek to ensure an application is filed and, if refused, restore the area to its natural state. Atty. Elliott denies DEP basis, claiming Hillview Heights is three subdivisions owned by different firms and exempt because construction began in 1967.
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Murray
Yorkounty Superior
Board of Environmental Protection
Atty. Elliott
Dep
Hillview Heights
Waycott
Elliott
Saco Construction Co
New York York York dental twist in Maine freefall
A quirky item notes a 10,000-foot freefall over York Maine kicking off a dental hygiene program that culminates in a week of classroom instruction by Green Berets from Fort Devens Massachusetts. The rest of the snippet mentions Robert Kennedy’s murder anniversary and MMC expanding cardiac care.
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Maine
York
Green Berets
Ft. Devens
Mass
Dollar Rises After Week of Decline on Inflation Hope
The U S dollar strengthened across Tokyo Hong Kong and Europe after a near week of declines. Gold prices eased with reports Nixon administration might push tougher inflation measures boosting dollar demand. Wormser cited dollar undervaluation amid Watergate fears eroding confidence in economic policy.
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London
USS
Washington
Tokyo
Hong Kong
Europe
Zurich
Frankfurt
Paris
Bank of France
Olivier Wormser
Kissinger and Tho Resume Secret Vietnam Talks
Kissinger and Le Duc Tho reopen discussions at a villa near Paris to strengthen the Indochina cease fire. Tho hosted the talks and welcomed the American delegation as both sides seek progress toward ending truce violations and concluding the round.
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Paris
Henry A. Kissinger
Hanoi
le Duc Tho
Vietnam
Communist Party
Gif-sur-Yvette
Tho
Indochina
Over The Biddeford School Board Discusses Crowding
The Biddeford School Board held a Tuesday night session with about a dozen Citizens' Evaluation Committee members. They debated overcrowding, the building program, high school material needs, and the committee's future. Marshall Cohen led a push to reorder priorities, placing elementary facilities first, as Robert Hodge outlined the curriculum and acting superintendent duties.
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Biddeford
Citizens’ Evaluation Committee
Marshall Cohen
Cohen
Robert Hodge
School board mulls space options to ease overcrowding
The board weighs renting two St. Andre's classrooms at 2000 for each with hopes of lowering cost, and considers St Francis College hexagonal modular space under a five year lease. Proposals include Kennedy elementary expansion and new neighborhood schools while avoiding rushed decisions. Concerns rise over parochial closures and emergency scenarios threatening the city’s entire parochial system.
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St. Andre’s School
Hodge
St. Francis College
St. Andre's
Richard Jacques
St. Louis High School
Jacques
Kennedy
Philomene Center
Citizen’s Group
Cohen
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Turkey
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John D. Ehrlichman
Lawrence Dewitt
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Pine Grove Development Corp
Sherwood Development Corp
Inside the Journal
Robert Kennedy
Iron Curtain
MMC
Nguyen van Ieu
Casco Bay
Anne Potts
Jayne Shannon
New England Aquarium
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