Republicans Split Over Watergate TV Coverage
Washington AP. An administration spokesman urged stopping the Senate hearings on television while GOP chairman George Bush praised the broadcasts as a means to expose the scandal. Morton warned the hearings risk becoming a dramatic production harming prosecutions. Cox seeks delay and a court order for live coverage. A Gallup poll shows 55 percent expect to vote Democratic in the next House elections.
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GOP
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Bush
NBC
Meet the Press
Morton
CBS
Archibald Cox
Cox
U.S. Dist
John J. Sirica
Gallup
House
Senate Hearings Televised or Not Divides Opinions
Sunday two opinions emerged on whether the Senate Watergate hearings should remain on television. The debate centers on whether televising could affect prosecutions and the search for truth as courts can obtain facts without broadcasts. In other news, Saigon reports Thieu recalled a top envoy from Paris for Vietnam peace talks set to resume this week.
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Senate
Rogers C. B. Morton
Saigon
Nguyen van Thieu
Paris
Vietnam
Miss Black West Virginia Crowned In Bluefield Pageant
Cecilia Margretta Tucker, 20, crowned Miss Black West Virginia at Bluefield State College. Her win contributes to Bluefield claiming two of three Black WV Queens in the annual pageant ceremony held at the Basic Science Building Sunday afternoon. local election speculation on July general polls follows.
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West Virginia
Bluefield State College
Bluefield
Queens
Dole Denies GOP Nixon Link Over Vietnam Trip Funds
Sen. Robert Dole of Kansas faces questions about a $3000 payment in 1971 for a Vietnam trip from a secret fund linked to the Nixon re election effort. Sloan testifies the money came from the same fund used in the Watergate caper. Dole says no wrongdoing and that public funds or the RNC should not have paid.
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Vietnam
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Lyn Nofziger
GOP
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Thieu Recalls Top Envoy From Paris
Saigon reports recall of a senior envoy from Paris for consultations as peace talks in Paris proceed with no clear progress. The U.S. and Saigon press for a timetable linking elections to the National Court of National Reconcilation while fighting continues in South Vietnam and Viet Cong accusations persist.
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Henry A. Kissinger
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Council
Ina
Thieu
Steiner Case fuels West German political scandal renewed
In Bonn Germany amid Watergate coverage the Steiner affair centers on former opposition lawmakers and bribery allegations. Julius Steiner claims double agent duties and abstention secrecy in the 1972 no confidence vote against Chancellor Willy Brandt.
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Barzel
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Brandt
Lawmaks
Women 65 and Over Outnumber Men by Gap of 3 Million
A Census Bureau elder profile shows women over 65 exceed men by more than three million and the gap will widen. In 1970 there were 11.6 million elderly women and 8.4 million men, with 722 men per 1 000 women, a ratio expected to fall to 675 by 1990.
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Census Bureau
U.S
United States
New York
California
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Congress Debates Future Of Indochina War Funding
Congress weighs further war funding cuts in Indochina as the Senate moves to halt all U S military actions in Cambodia Laos and Vietnam unless Congress approves. House leaders anticipate a vote on a softer Cambodia Laos cutoff while other fiscal measures and a debt ceiling extension advance.
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Henry A. Kissinger
Paris
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Indochina
Senate
U.S
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Laos
Church Case
Vietnam
Frank Church
Idaho
Clifford J. Case
R-N.j
State Department
House
U. S
Mahon
Explorer 49 Moon Orbit Satellite Seeks Deep Space Signals
Cape Kennedy Florida AP NASA launches Explorer 49 toward the moon on a Delta rocket to record low frequency radio signals from galactic and extragalactic sources. After a five day outbound flight a ground command will slow the craft to lunar capture at 680 miles altitude. The $11.1 million spacecraft aims to surpass Explorer 38 by reducing earthly radio noise and revealing early universe history.
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Jupiter
Robert Stone
Goddard Space Flight Center
Stone
Pete
CWA and Gentel avert strike with tentative agreement
Negotiations between General Telephone Co and the Communications Workers of America ended with a tentative pact reached at midnight in Bluefield. The agreement includes a 6.8 percent pay raise, 2 percent fringe benefits, one extra holiday, four weeks vacation for long service, and improved retirement and insurance benefits, pending ratification by 507 union members by June 20.
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Southeast
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Communications Workers of America
General Telephone Co
Bluefield
Barney Farmer
Farmer
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Joves
General Tele Company
Princeton
Welch
West Virginia
Tazewell
Richlands
Grundy
Virginia
Skylab Photographers Record Midwest and New England From Orbit
Skylab astronauts Paul Weitz Charles Conrad Jr and Joseph Kerwin photographed urban growth in Cedar Rapids Iowa and Asheville North Carolina as part of a 6500 mile photo run. They studied environmental impacts of reservoir construction in Illinois and captured data on solar nuclear fusion. The second Skylab crew is set to launch July 27.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Asheville
N.C
Ervoir
Illinois
Sklab
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