Martha Mitchell Faces Bitter Path After Watergate
Washington biography recalls Martha Mitchell once a vivid political voice now battered by Watergate fallout. She urged Nixon to resign, accused him of shielding allies, and blamed the White House for lies while her husband John Mitchell faced legal peril and scrutiny over the scandal.
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Watergate
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Mitchell
Charlie
Arkansas Gazette
Sen. J. William Fulbright
Nixon
Nix
White House
TV Highlights Include All American Game and Aquatic Championships
Live coverage from Akron for the American Golf Classic third round at Firestone Country Club with Gifford and others. Simulcast on ABC features International Invitational Swimming and Diving Championships commentary by DeVarona, Rose, and Sitzberger from Santa Clara. Cadence of repeats and film segments follows, with Coaches All-American Game football action and analysts Wilkinson and Daugherty.
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Akron
Ohio
Frank Gifford
Bud Palmer
Dave Marr
Bill Flemming
Byron Nelson
ABC
Santa Clara
Calif
Donna DeVarona
Murray Rose
Ken Sitzberger
Lubbock
Texas
Chris Schenkel
Bud Wilkinson
Duffy Daugherty
House votes dim prospects for legal aid office
A string of House amendments to a bill creating an independent legal services corporation for the poor left the future of the Office of Economic Opportunity in doubt. The Appropriations Committee had granted a one year reprieve, and next week’s vote could terminate the program.
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House
Office of Economic Opportunity
House Appropriations Committee
Augustus F. Hawkins
D-Calif
Legal Services Bill
Med School Neglect Cited By Hechler
Rep Ken Hechler of West Virginia accuses the Nixon administration of hindering Marshall University Huntington medical school plans. Hechler says the White House and OMB blocked progress by withholding funds and guidelines and demands the administration decide on the project.
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Washington
Ken Hechler
D-W.va
Marshall University
Huntington
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Nixon
Marshall “Medical School
White House
Office of Management and Budget
White House OKs GE France jet engine partnership
The White House reverses an earlier ban and allows GE to collaborate with a major French firm on a new jet engine core for mid range aircraft. Paris confirms the decision plans to export the core to France with a French company completing the engines. The license awaits formal approval.
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White House
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Claude Lomas
Lomas
Nixon
Georges Pompidou
France
Schenectady
N. Y
United States
Péter M. Flanigan
Henry A. Kissinger
State income refunds rise as withholdings increase
Gov Arch Moore reports this fiscal year average refunds of 32.60 and total refunds 11.6 million from 356 thousand issued, up from last year 20.99 and 5.92 million from 282 thousand. He notes higher withholding and inflation of tables. All refunds expected by July 1.
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Arch A. Moore Jr
Moore
State
Department
Income Tax Division
Contributions Hit 9500 For Unionists
The West Virginia Building Trades Council collected 9500 for the families of Huntington unionists William Cremeans and Lawrence Perdue. The fund aids the families after Cremeans was killed and Perdue was wounded during a picket at a Huntington construction site using nonunion labor. Contributions come from council members and continue to arrive at 200 Washington St. W. Charleston 25302.
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Huntington
Jimmie Rogers
Washington St. W
Charleston
William Cremeans
Lawrence Perdue
Cremeans
Perdue
Appeal Refused to Return Poverty Director to Post
The U S Court of Appeals denied a government motion to restore Howard W. Phillips as acting director of the Office of Economic Opportunity. The panel said the government failed to show likelihood of success on the merits and noted Senate confirmation is required by the Constitution. Phillips had been appointed acting director Jan 29 without Senate nomination.
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U. S. Court of Appeals
Howard W. Phillips
Phillips
Steven Eilperin
Justice Pea
U. S. District Court
William B. Jones
Jone Il
Office of Economic Opportunity
Jones
Agency
Senate
United States
OEO
Not Through My House Not Through My House
Dozens of neighbors gathered outside the Powder Mill apartment of Carl and Mrs Pierce in Beltsville Maryland after 500 tenants suffered a 12 hour power outage. The transformer located in the Pierces living room was accessed by workers who cut a 5 by 8 foot hole in the wall to remove it following a hastily signed agreement to restore power.
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Greenbrier Street
Lawrence Pierce
Beltsville, Md
Carl Pierce
Powder Mill
Pierce
South Point Death Probe Reopened
IRONTON Ohio Assistant Lawrence County Prosecutor Dennis Boll said the investigation into the strangulation death of 15 year old Jeffery Scott has been reopened. Police indicate the youth was molested before murder and Charles Lee Fannin 21 of South Point is charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. A Thursday testimony change led to dropping first degree murder charges against two Olive Hill residents.
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Ohio
South Point
Lawrence County
Dennis Boll
Boll
Jeffery Scott
Charles Lee Fannin
Fannin
Olive Hill, My
Bell
Area Man Receives Law Degree
Robert T. Grace of South V. Grace of Massey Circle Charleston has received his law degree from the University of Miami. Grace was on the dean's list for two years and finished in the upper 20 percent of his class.
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Robert T. Grace
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City Man Charged For Firing Gun
Ralph Kidd of Donnally Street was charged with discharging a firearm in Charleston. The arrest occurred in municipal court on Friday, with Kidd noted as a graduate of South Charleston High School. The article mentions a law degree awarded June 3.
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Charleston
Donnally Street
Ralph Kidd
South Charleston High School
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