Nixon fires four in Watergate purge resignations
President Nixon announces the resignations of Atty. Gen. Richard Kleindienst and White House aides H. R. Haldeman John Ehrlichman and John Dean III. Elliot Richardson is named acting attorney general and head of Watergate investigations. Garment to act as counsel.
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Washington
Nixon
Atty
Richard G. Kleindienst
White House
Elliot Richardson
H. R. Haldeman
John D. Ehrlichman
John Dean III
Ronald L. Ziegler
Kleindienst
Justice Department
Richardson
Democratic National Committee
Watergate Complex
Ehrlichman
Haldeman
White “House
Dean
Leonard Garment
Garment
Ziegler
Camp David
Three Question Legislators At Coffee and Conversation
An audience of three attended Sen. Cale Hudson and Rep. Fred Harris during a brief Saturday Coffee and Conversation at the Chamber of Commerce. Harris touted 1973 reforms including property tax relief and penal system reforms, while Hudson called 1973 a successful year with sizeable property tax cuts and a state wide reduction. He warned of local control losses in welfare and noted progress in retirement pay for teachers and homestead relief. Harris supported no fault insurance as a step forward but expected revisions as rates may rise, especially hurting lower incomes, with changes driven by public opinion.
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Cale Hudson
Fred Harris
Chamber of Commerce
Harris
Hudson
Nixon releases justification for continued Cambodia bombing
Secretary of State Rogers presented a 13 page document to the Senate committee claiming Presidential Authority to Maintain air combat in Cambodia. The file cites Article 20 of the Vietnam peace agreement as central to linking Laos Cambodia and Vietnam conflicts as parts of a single war. Rogers also noted potential for a cease-fire in Vietnam despite violations.
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Washington
Cambodia
U.S
Secretary of
William P. Rogers
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United States
Laos
Vietnam
Rogers
Area forecast: cloudy with showers possible tonight and Tuesday
The forecast calls for cloudy skies with a chance of showers or thunderstorms tonight and Tuesday. Lows tonight in the low to mid 60s. Highs Tuesday expected around 70. Rain chances 40 percent tonight and 50 percent Tuesday.
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha Trims the Executive Branch
A fragmentary note appears as an intercepted letter to Cha with a curt stance that it has no Watergate link and accuses trimming the executive branch, signaling political tension.
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Cha
Hospital visit outlines new Kansas welfare department
Dr. Robert C. Harder state director of social welfare and now secretary of the new Department of Social and Rehabilitative Services led a delegation to the Southeast Kansas Tuberculosis Hospital. The group discussed centralization under state control and potential regional welfare offices using part of the hospital.
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Robert C. Harder
Department of Social and Rehabilitative Services
Southeast
Kansas Tuberculosis Hospital
Division of
Social Welfare Department
R. A. Haines
Kenneth G. Keller
Howard Williams
Dennis Popp
Richard McAnany
State Board of Social
Calvin A. Pyle
W. G. Dodson
Harder
Nixon Aides Outline Tax Reform to Tighten Loopholes
The Nixon administration unveils a tax reform plan to close loopholes that allow high income earners to escape taxes through deductions and exclusions. It proposes a minimum taxable income and curbs artificial accounting losses, with Shultz stating no general tax increase and expected net revenue of 800 million while reducing 1.1 billion elsewhere.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
George P. Shultz
House
Ways and Means Committee
Shultz
Nixon tax reform package highlights proposed changes
The administration recommends new rules including taxing at least half of income, limiting loss offsets, simplifying returns with a 1040 form, a $500 miscellaneous deduction, an age credit for 65 plus, expanded child care deduction to 4800, a housing realty tax credit up to 500, a tuition credit up to 200 per child, a 30 percent interest subsidy for state securities, a 7 percent exploration tax credit for new oil and gas wells, and stricter penalties for preparers with negligent or willful errors.
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Washington
Congress
United States
Exposure verdict in Sloan deaths
Mr and Mrs Verden Sloan of Stark were found dead four miles from Moran after being missing since Tuesday. A Kansas City pathologist ruled death by exposure. Harold Barnett of Humboldt located the bodies. Funeral services were held in Moran and Jet Oklahoma. The Sloans married December 12, 1945, and lived in Stark twenty years with survivors from both families.
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Verden Sloan
Stark
Moran
Kansas City
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Sloans
Neosho County
Harold Barnett
Humboldt
Ralston-Hutton Chapel
Ira Wiley
Jet
Okla
Hennessey
Sloan
John Sloan
Delmar Sloan
Newton
Earl Sloan
Aline
Mrs. Sloan
Movie Hammond
Miles Hammond
Frances Green
Nash
George Stover
Cherokee
Lee Hammond
Wichita
First Woman Heads British Hairdressers Guild
Kay Wellstead called bearded men repulsive and unattractive at a British Guild of Hairdressers meeting, criticizing facial hair as untidy and a sign of laziness or hiding defects.
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London
British Guild of Hairdressers
Kay Wellstead
Guild
Agnew Leads GOP Nomination Stand in Gallup Poll
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew leads Republican voters as the favorite for the 1976 GOP presidential nomination with 35 percent in a Gallup survey of 798 Republicans. California Governor Ronald Reagan is second at 20 percent, former Treasury Secretary John Connally 15 percent, Governor Nelson Rockefeller 11 percent, and Senator Charles Percy 8 percent.
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Princeton
N.J
Spiro T. Agnew
GOP
Gallup
Agnew
Ronald Reagan
California
Secretary of the Treasury
John Connally
Connally
Nixon
Nelson Rockefeller
New York
Sen
Charles Percy
Illinois
Cambodian Forces Reclaim Mekong Bank North of Angkor Wat
Cambodian government says it retook a riverbank stretch across from Phnom Penh and killed 52 insurgents in repulsing an attack 40 miles north of Angkor Wat. It also reports offensives at two southern points and a successful defense at a third location.
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Phnom Penh
Cambodia
Mekong
Angkor Wat
Capial
Mississippi River crest eases after record flood surge
The Mississippi River levee work paused as the river flattens along southeastern Missouri. NWS projects crests late Sunday or today with gradual falls northward, St. Louis at 43 feet after a 43.3 foot peak, 13.3 feet above flood stage, breaking the 1785 record. Without rainfall, Hannibal may drop below flood levels by May 9 and St. Louis by May 14.
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Mississippi River
Missouri
National Weather Service
Weather Service
Hannibal
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