Watergate hush-up junkets alleged
A Senate panel cites a document claiming Nixon reelection aides sent FBI agents on fishing expeditions to suppress truth about the Watergate affair. The letter from the FBI to John W. Dean Jr. dated July 21 was released with other FBI records as hearings resume on Gray's FBI directorship.
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Mayors Seek Continuity in Federal Aid Amid Transition
Six Republican mayors met with White House officials to affirm continued federal funding during the shift to Nixon’s state control plan for about 70 aid programs. They proposed forming a task force via the National League of Cities and U S Conference of Mayors to ease the transition, naming Driggs, Boo, Wilson, Mayor May, Sullivan, and Romero as participants.
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Kenneth Cole
US rejects North Vietnam aid until ceasefire honored
Defense Secretary Elliott Richardson and Deputy Defense Secretary William P. Clements said reconstruction aid to North Vietnam will not be provided under any circumstance unless the communists fully honor the Southeast Asia ceasefire. They spoke in separate forums, stressing that postwar rebuilding could serve as an insurance policy for peace only after fighting ceases, aiming to pressure Hanoi and counter congressional opposition to Nixon's plans.
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Court demands Petersburg ward system to protect Negro voting rights
The Supreme Court upheld a ruling forcing Petersbur g Virginia to switch from an at large council election to a ward system as a condition to annex adjacent territory. The decision, affirmed from a November 1972 panel, adds about 323 residents to the city population with roughly 7 000 whites. Justice Douglas favored setting the case for argument while Justice Powell did not participate.
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Silver dollars for U.S. birthday designs proposed
The Treasury seeks Congress approval to mint silver dollars and half dollars with Revolutionary War designs. The reverse of the Eisenhower dollar and Kennedy half dollar would carry the new artwork, to circulate starting July 4, 1975, a year before the nation's 20th anniversary.
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U S firm selling arms to Japan claim sparks alarm
AFL-CIO says an American firm with government approval exports a Thor-Nesta missile system to Japan. McDonald-Douglas is named, with engineers trained at Vandenberg and a prototype built in Santa Monica. A Tokyo Tokyo 1971 meeting is cited as backing the deal, linking it to auto industry investments.
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Navy costs may suffer Litton blow
The GAO warns Litton Industries faces more trouble as delays loom in 30 new destroyers at the Pascagoula Mississippi yard. The report cites management problems and potential slipovers on the 1963 destroyer program, despite some recent improvements.
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