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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1973
Page
1
Forecast calls for highs in the low 80s and mids for Charleston. Variable clouds with a chance of showers or thundershowers in some zones. Partly cloudy and cooler at night with lows mid to upper 50s. Sunrise 6 03 am sunset 8 3 pm.
Brezhnev rode at the wheel of Nixon's Lincoln Continental for about ten minutes at Camp David with an interpreter present as talks resumed and expanded to cover the Helsinki conference and a possible mutual reduction in Europe’s military forces.
Senate investigators press Hunt testimony as Colson denies ordering Hunt to Milwaukee. A June 20 1972 memo surfaces claiming Colson discussed Bremer’s apartment break in and Hunt’s possible involvement. FBI logs and White House briefings are cited as the probe narrows to Colson’s role and potential cover up. Hunt, a former CIA agent, remains serving a 35 year sentence after pleading guilty to Watergate charges.
Dean’s testimony reveals Nixon urged delay of a House Watergate probe and considered using wiretaps. Ehrlichman Haldeman and Colson sought clemency talks with Hunt. McBride expands staff amid fund raising inquiry and possible special grand jury. CIA ties and Walters named in coverup probes.
Grose and Robinson accuse the Gazette of unfair treatment toward women and men. They note hours of discrimination include not publishing bridegroom pictures and favoring women’s clubs in calendars. They call for equal participation and visible male and female figures.
Two major postal unions reported a tentative contract with wage and benefit increases totaling about 15 percent plus unlimited cost of living adjustments. Negotiations with two smaller unions covering nearly 90,000 workers continued on jurisdictional issues. Salaries rising from about 10 000 to over 11 000, with some nearing 12 000 annually plus COLA.
A band of Peronist youths seized three persons at the Ezeiza airport hotel and beat them unconscious while a spectator said assailants sought confessions that the trio were Marxists. The Trotskyite People's Revolutionary Army has pledged to disrupt the new Peronist government. A separate group grabbed a man and claimed he was a sniper for the Marxist guerrilla group. The crowd shouted hang him as the youths formed a ring around their prisoner to protect him. Spectators, instead of watching 18,000 doves released for Peron's peaceful return after 18 years in exile, faced a hail of bullets.
The South Charleston Chamber of Commerce endorsed the June 26 bus exc ess levy, saying the bus system remains the only mass transit option in the Kanawha Valley. The chamber also deferred naming a new member to the Police Civil Service Commission pending further study.
A preliminary autopsy links the death of 16 year old Diana Walker of South Charleston to sudden sniffing death from inhaling fumes of a decongestant can. Coroner Al Shepard says a lethal blood and water mix cut oxygen absorption in the lungs. A cloudy swelling was noted as a secondary factor. Two teenage friends present told police she collapsed while inhaling vapor through a home-made filter.
JAL plans to decide by year end on 3 Concordes options after recovering its $700,000 deposit. President Shizuo Asada cited security concerns heightened by the Soviet TU 144 crash and noted government ownership remains 50 percent.
An advertisement promotes quick-drying T-4-L for itching and burning relief within minutes. It claims in three to five days an infected area sheds and a healthy skin replaces it. If not satisfied within one hour, a nine-cent refund at any drug counter.
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