Nixon agrees to supply Watergate tapes to court
President Nixon announced he will comply with the U.S. Court of Appeals ruling and hand over White House tapes to Judge John Sirica. The move comes as the House Judiciary Committee begins a preliminary impeachment inquiry into Nixon. Charles Alan Wright delivered the notice in court, saying the compromise did not resolve the crisis.
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Nixon
U.S. Court of Appeals
White House
House of Representatives
U.S. District
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Charles Alan Wright
Wright
Sirica
Impeachment Action Begins in House Judiciary
House Speaker Carl Albert announced that resolutions calling for impeachment or investigations likely to lead to charges will be referred to the House Judiciary Committee. He urged careful, not reckless action and noted the ongoing Ford vice presidential nomination.
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House
Carl Albert
Nixon
House Judiciary Committee
Albert
Gerald R. Ford
Nation scoffs no longer at our attorney general
An intercepted letter reflects a shift in public perception of the attorney general, suggesting growing respect or confidence. The source frames the change as a reaction to past criticism and highlights the nation's evolving view of the official.
Supreme Court refuses to rule on prior restraint case
The Supreme Court denied an appeal by two Baton Rouge newsmen fined for reporting on a 1971 public hearing. The case tested whether an anti reporting ban was so obviously illegal that disobedience could be safe, but the court did not decide the legality of the order.
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Supreme Court Today
William C. Douglas
Baton Rouge
High Court
Grand Juries To Continue In Watergate Probe
Judge John J. Sirica told two Watergate grand juries they are not dismissed and will remain under the court. He urged patience as the investigation faces weekend events and awaited White House tapes compromise. House members prepared impeachment resolutions as courtroom activity centered on senior prosecutors from the special prosecution force.
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USS
District Court
John J. Sirica
Watergate
Court Backs Kansas in Amtrak Liquor Case
Supreme Court affirms lower court ruling barring liquor sales on Amtrak trains crossing Kansas. Kansas liquor laws apply to trains passing through. 21st Amendment cited. Also notes area forecast with variable clouds and mild highs in the 70s.
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Supreme Court
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National Railroad Passenger Corp
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Fighting Near Suez Canal Escalates as Cease Fire Fails
Fierce tank and artillery clashes along the Suez Canal and dogfights over Syria surged on day 18 of the war despite a U N backed truce. Egypt urged an emergency Security Council session over alleged Israeli violations while Syria remained silent.
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Richardson Defends Independence in Watergate Fallout
Ex-AG Elliot Richardson says the Watergate controversy should be judged by the American people. He recounts negotiations over Cox access to tapes, cites the clash between presidential confidentiality and Cox unfettered inquiry, and notes he resigned to serve the nation as a private citizen. The integrity of government is at stake.
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White House
Archibald Cox
Cox
Justice Department
Irving counts days in Danbury prison as clothing clerk
Clifford Irving serving two year conspiracy and grand larceny sentence for faking the Howard Hughes autobiography says his job at Danbury federal prison is to count uniforms and distribute shoes while keeping records of who received what clothing.
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Danbury, Conn
Clifford Irving
Howard Hughes
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Dr Margaret Wolf marks 55 years in Chanute practice
Dr. Margaret Wolf arrived in Chanute in February 1919 to start osteopathic medicine. She built a life with her sister Mattie and extended family, moving to 317 N Highland after years above Fidelity Bank, surviving a flu epidemic and the Great Depression while serving patients and collecting over 200 state license plates.
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Kansas City
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Chicago
Nobel prizes and Casals death headlined in mixed AP dispatch
The AP reports Pablo Casals, 96, world famous cellist, dies in San Juan after a career spanning from playing for Spanish royalty at 15 to conducting an orchestra in the 1930s. Separately, Stockholm awards the 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Wilkinson and Fischer and Physics to Esaki, Graever, and Josephson for superconductivity research. Harrisburg notes fuel fraud where diesel fuel use in vehicles hides tax losses on heating oil.
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Pablo Casals
Casals
Stockholm
Geoffrey Wilkinson
Ernst Otto Fischer
Ivar Graever
Leo Esaki
Brian Josephson
Science Academy
Esaki, Graever
Josephson
Harrisburg
Impeachment Poll Shows Narrow Nixon Support
A nationwide AP poll of 947 adults after Archibald Cox firing finds 44 percent favor impeachment, 43 percent oppose, and 13 percent undecided. The rate of support has nearly doubled since August. In Chicago, Lee MacPhail of the Yankees becomes American League president effective January 1, 1974.
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New York
Oliver Quayle
Archibald Cox
Nixon
Chicago
Lee MacPhail
New York Yankees
Joe Cronin
Three youths charged in deadly fire set on homeless man
In Miami Florida three boys aged 13 13 and 12 were charged with first degree murder for dousing homeless man Charles Scales 38 with lighter fluid and setting him on fire as he slept behind an abandoned building. They also face two counts of assault with intent to commit murder for setting fires to two other men.
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Miami, Fla
Charles Scales
UAW Prepares Strike as Ford Contract Talks Continue
The United Auto Workers threaten a Friday strike with 185,000 Ford production workers if a new three year national contract is not agreed. The union serves notice at 10 a.m. and local contracts may also be terminated. Leaders Woodcock and Denise express optimism for a deal before the deadline.
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Leonard Woodcock
Ford
Malcolm Denise
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