Connally Exit Raises Questions About White House Team
Washington AP reports John Connally has left the Nixon White House, prompting speculation about stability after Watergate resignations. Melvin Laird may quit as Ehrlichman successor. both men are veteran politicians with strong opinions. Connally plans to return to his Houston law firm and may hit the Republican speaking circuit this fall.
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John Connally
Nixon White House
Melvin Laird
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Nixon
Laird
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Connally
Ronald Ziegler
Ziegler
Henry Kissinger
Alexander Haig
Pedestrian Dies After Car Struck Crossing in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids records a fourth traffic fatality of the year after Grace Turnbull 70 died at St Luke's hospital following a collision at A Avenue and Tenth Street NE. Barbara A. Guhl 29 was driving northbound and turning left. charges allege failure to yield to a pedestrian. Grace Turnbull, lifelong Cedar Rapids resident, worked 15 years at New Process Laundry and is survived by a daughter, six sons, two sisters, and several siblings.
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Tenth Street
Grace Turnbull
Sixth Street NW
St. Lukes’s Hospital
Barbara A. Guhl
Olin
Grace Esther Turnbull
New Process
James P. Turnbull
Iowa City
Margaret Williams
Harold
California
Delbert
Ohio
Jack
Leslie
Florida
Wayne
Kenneth
Dolly Stewart
Marion
Mildred Crenter
Americans Pound Gunner Areas Near Phnom Penh
American B 52s and F 111 bombers struck west and south of Phnom Penh injuring about 100 and killing 20 as insurgents fired rockets and 75 mm shells from Tuol Leap and Prek Thaot. The attack focused on a densely populated slum near the city with fears of daily shelling.
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Phnom Penh
Tuol Leap
Prek Thaot
Pochengtong
Lon Phnom Penh
U. S
Governor of Virginia Sees Ghost in Mansion
Virginia Governor Linwood Holton reports the ghost of a young woman from the 1890s still unsettles the Virginia Governor's Mansion. He recalls nightly footsteps and paintings moved while he slept, attributing the incidents to the mansion's reputed specter. Maria Barrow notes the ghost's historic first sighting by Gov. McKinney.
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Richmond
UPI
Linwood Holton
Holton
Maria Barrow
Capitol
Phillip McKinney
McKinney
Budget Deficit Below Forecast
The administration said the 1973 fiscal year saw a deficit of 14.4 billion, with outlays at 246.6 billion and receipts at 232.2 billion. Major cuts came from health, education and welfare grants and disability claims for coal miners. Treasury Secretary Shultz lauded Congress for curbing spending amid program differences.
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Washington
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Treasury
Shultz
Congress
U S Veto Blocks UN Resolution on Israel Withdrawal
The United States vetoed a U N Security Council resolution deploring Israel's failure to withdraw from territory won in the 1967 war. The vote was 13 to 1 with China abstaining. the U S vetoed as the permanent member, the proposal deemed too one sided.
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U.S
U.N
Security Council
Israel
John Scali
China
Hit-Run Murder Charge Reduced in Florida Case
County Judge Arden Merckle reduced Raymond McMahon's charges from first degree murder to second degree murder in the hit and run that killed Robyn Caton 5, and Roxanne Caton 13. Bond set at 50000 total, no premeditated design shown, McMahon surrendered in Georgia after a nationwide search.
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Tampa
Fla
Arden Merckle
Raymond McMahon
Merckle
State Attorney’s
McMahon
Robyn Caton
Roxanne
Georgia
Nixon vows to abide by Supreme Court decision on tapes
President Nixon said he would abide by a definitive Supreme Court ruling regarding the Watergate tapes. He rejected subpoenas from the Senate Watergate committee and Archibald Cox, offering to provide any information his administration can produce. Cox moved to force turnover of the tapes, while Sirica issued a show cause order. The committee pressed the court challenge, and Nixon defended preserving executive independence under the separation of powers doctrine. Ousted counsel John Dean testified that Watergate talks occurred in the Oval Office as Butterfield appeared as a witness.
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Washington
Nixon
Senate Watergate Committee
Archibald Cox
Supreme Court
Gerald Warren
U.S
John Sirica
Iselect Committee
Cox
Sirica
Watergate Grand Jury
Sam Ervin
D-N.c
Congress
Select Committee
Ervin
White House
John Dean
Alexander Butterfield
Nixon nominates Russell Train to lead EPA and Ruckelshaus to Deputy AG
President Nixon announced Thursday his picks for top justice and environmental posts. Russell Train, 53, would become administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency replacing acting head Robert Fri. William Ruckelshaus, 41, would shift to deputy attorney general, succeeding Joseph Sneed who was nominated to the Ninth Circuit. Ruckelshaus previously led EPA from its 1970 founding before a stint at the FBI.
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Washington
Nixon
Russell Train
Environmental Protection Agency
William Ruckelshaus
Train
Council On Environmental Quality
EPA
Robert Fri
Ruckelshaus
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Joseph Sneed
Wednes
U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
FBI
L. Patrick Gray
Justice Department
Interior
UCS Goal For 1974 Is 1 103 000
The United Community Services board approved a 1974 campaign goal of 1 103 000, about ten percent above 1973, based on expected repeat donations of 1 028 000 and anticipated drive income. Salaries for participating agencies rise 5.5 percent by 75 000. By July 1 UCS had allocated 1 003 000 to area agencies. A regional program review panel, co staffed by UCS and the county health center, was approved to evaluate funding for regional agencies.
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Cedar Rapids News
United Community Services
UCS
County Health Center
Health Center
Madge Phillips
Hoover Health Council
Area Ten Drug Abuse Council
Robert Bettiga
Nixon Push Began Leaks Team Aims to Satisfy President
Ehrlichman testified Thursday to the Senate Watergate committee that a White House investigation into Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, including the Sept. 1971 burglary, was conducted to satisfy the President and prevent future leaks. He said the effort sought to determine Ellsberg’s role by all means while denying approval of the break in.
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Washington
John Ehrlichman
White House
Daniel Ellsberg
Pentagon
Ehrlichman
Senate Watergate Committee
United States
Sen
Lowell Weicker Rconn
Nixon
Ellsberg
Internal Revenue Service
FBI
L. Patrick Gray
E. Howard Hunt
Atty
John Mitchell
J. Edgar Hoover
Pentagon Papers
Egil Krogh
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