Photog release shows Mao with Yang Chen-ning in China
A July 17 photograph released by Hsinhua shows Mao Tse-tung meeting American physicist Yang Chen-ning during his relatives visit to the People's Republic of China. AP wirephoto. In Buenos Aires the Chamber of Deputies passed foreign investment legislation amid controversy over U.S. embassy outreach on the bills. The chamber also declared the American chargé d'affaires persona non grata, in a reaction to memoranda criticizing the draft law.
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Renovations Probed on Nixon Estate San Clemente
House Government Operations Committee subpoenaed records showing attorney Herbert H. Kalmbach, who represented Nixon in the San Clemente estate purchase, led plans for renovations. About 703000 in public funds were reportedly spent there with invoices indicating non security uses. The panel voted its first subpoena since 1946, seeking records of federally financed improvements on private presidential property dating back to Truman.
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Colson sought IRS names of council donors in probe
Charles W. Colson urged a White House aide to obtain from the IRS the names of contributors to the National Council of Senior Citizens. He said the council was giving trouble as it pressed for higher Social Security benefits and national health insurance for the elderly.
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Nixon wiretap powers backed in court ruling
Federal District Judge John H. Pratt endorsed the theory that the president may order electronic surveillance without a warrant when related to foreign affairs and essential to national security. The ruling supports Nixon's claimed constitutional authority in the Watergate context, aligning with Ehrlichman’s Senate testimony.
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Teacher Jailed in Ankara for Propagating Communism
Yeni Ortam reports Turkey's only leftist daily that Sabiha Ates, a young schoolmistress, was sentenced to 5 years and 10 months in jail for possessing books letters and student forms at her home and for other reasons. The sentence is to be followed by 20 months of exile under police supervision.
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Meany Says Watergate Erodes Nixon. Warns GOP Trouble Ahead
Lot ter Oak Brook Ill George Meany AFL CIO president says he is dissatisfied with Nixon and the Republican administration. He cites mounting government corruption evidence and predicts the Republican Party will face trouble in the 1974 elections due to Watergate revelations.
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Strip Mine Bill Eyed at Washington
A bipartisan House Interior Committee vote 27 to 3 backed tentative approval of a strip mine environmental standards bill. The measure uses Committee Print No. 3 as the mark up vehicle for a finished bill to be refined in September amid a western expansion in coal mining.
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Arab Support Urged By Standard Oil California
The Standard Oil Co. of California urged its 40,000 employees and 262,000 stockholders to back Arab aspirations and Middle East peace. Otto N. Miller, chairman, urged US government support for Arab nations whose oil reserves are vital to the western world's future welfare.
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Floodwaters Pile Cars as North Plainfield Flooding Strikes
Floodwaters in North Plainfield New Jersey stacked cars into mounds and sent them into structures on Thursday. Several people were reported killed as the flooding spread through the area. An AP wirephoto accompanies the report.
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Marcos Sees China US Ties Improving After Victory
President Ferdinand Marcos expressed optimism for closer US relations and steady progress for the Philippines in a Manila interview, five days after winning 90 percent in a referendum backing indefinite martial law.
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Cyprus Supreme Court bars naming Archbishop Makarios as Muskos
The Cyprus supreme court ordered four opposition newspapers to stop calling Archbishop Makarios by his baptismal name Michael Muskos. The papers, allied with Gen. George Grivas, had repeatedly used Muskos after rebel bishops tried to defrock him earlier this year.
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Cyprus
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London
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George Grivas
Michael Muskos
Senate votes to end beef price freeze immediately
The Senate approved 84 to 5 an amendment to lift the beef price freeze to avert shortages. The action, attached to a minor bill, left uncertainty about House passage and President Nixon’s eventual sign. The vote reflected strong congressional sentiment against the freeze.
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Nixon
Alabama House approves 18 age bill to equal rights
In Montgomery, the Alabama House passed a statutory measure to lower the legal age to 18, granting 18, 19 and 20 year olds the same rights as adults. The bill does not require a statewide vote, unlike a previously approved constitutional amendment.
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Veto Override Clears Emergency Medical Services Bill
The Senate decisively overrode the President's veto on an emergency medical services bill to curb deaths from accidents and heart attacks. The 77 to 16 vote topped the two thirds needed. A House vote isn’t expected until after Congress returns Sept 5. James B. Cardwell of HEW will become Social Security commissioner.
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Translation Goof in Argentine Memorandums Draws Regret
State Department spokesman Charles W. Bray Ill. said the U S regrets the matter after questions about Argentine complaints. He cited possibly offensive language in memorandums by embassy charge d affaires Max V Krebs and attributed the phrasing to a hasty Spanish translation by embassy staff.
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Nyt
State Department
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Max. V. Krebs
House approves trans Alaska pipeline bill in landslide vote
Washington The House passed a bill to license construction of a trans Alaskan pipeline and shield it from further environmental court challenges by a 356 to 60 vote after eight hours of debate. The measure mirrors a Senate version and will go to conference after the recess to resolve differences. This action likely ends a three year environmentalist effort to halt the project through the courts.
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House
Senate
Senate House
Tanaka Visits New York After Nixon Talks
Premier Kakuei Tafidaka of Japan arrived in New York after two days of talks with President Nixon in Washington. Officials say he seeks to widen American contacts beyond the federal government, with plans to visit Chicago and San Francisco before returning to Japan.
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Nixon Administration Pledges Continued Aid to Cambodia
The Nixon Administration said it would maintain all possible economic military and diplomatic support to Lon Nol’s Cambodian government despite an Aug 15 end to U S bombing across Indochina. Officials consider actions to keep Lon Nol’s regime intact long enough to pursue a ceasefire with Sihanouk’s insurgents.
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Hold Down Arrests in Rockefeller Drug Plan
New York City corporation counsel Norman Redlich accuses the administrator of the state anti narcotics program of privately urging police not to make excessive drug arrests when the program starts on September 1 to avoid overwhelming courts. Redlich sent the charge in a letter to Michael Whiteman, counsel to Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller.
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Norman Redlich
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Nelson A. Rockefeller
Wage Bill Increases Minimum Wage to 2.20
The measure passed 62 to 28 aiming to raise the hourly minimum to 2.20 by July 1 for most workers. It still awaits House approval perhaps today as Congress faces a month-long recess. Democratic leaders plan to send it to the White House when Congress reconvenes September 5.
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Athens High School rodeo queen dies in accident
Miss Benson, a winner in the Athens High School Beauty Walk and scorekeeper for the track team, died in a rodeo-related incident. Funeral arrangements will be announced by McConnell Funeral Home. She had been preparing for the National Rodeo Queen finals in Albuquerque and was among 14 contestants for the Alabama State Championship. Athens Limestone Ambulance Service transported her and Tribble to the hospital as investigators, including Trooper Roland Webster and deputies Mat Adams and Vernon Bates, looked into the crash. Her family and rodeo officials expressed deep sorrow.
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TVA Plans Cooling Towers For Parker Plant Proposal
The cooling towers at the Parker plant aim to limit condenser water return to Wheeler Lake to a five degree rise, a stricter target than initially allowed. TVA announced on February 3, 1972 it would proceed with the towers, expecting to need them only a few weeks each year when water temperatures rise. Hearing chairman Kingsley said the AEC will keep the record open 10 more days for additional written comments before ruling on Parker's intervention.
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Ellsberg memo sparks covert probe into medical files
A memorandum from David R. Young Jr. to H R Ehrlichman says the CIA preliminary psychological study on Ellsberg was superficial and that Young secured authority to covertly review Ellsberg’s medical files held by his psychoanalyst for the two years of analysis. The memo links a Labor Day break-in by Hunt and Liddy to find adverse information for an anti Ellsberg campaign.
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Bernard Malloy
Amputation Set For Survivor
The sole survivor of Delta DC9 crash at Logan Airport was to have both legs amputated to boost survival odds. Air Force Sgt. Leopold Chouinard, 20, of Marshfield Vermont, listed in critical condition with third degree burns over 80 percent of his body. Doctors cited extensive leg burns and mangled bones, noting his head and arm injuries survived the flames. He recalled escaping through the rear of the plane and being helped free. Surgeons called leg amputation a radical step but a common burn survival measure in extensive cases.
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Joshua Tofield
Resignations Accepted In Cedar Bluff Police Force
Three Cedar Bluff officers had resigned, though Randall Ragland says he revoked his. The resignations were accepted amid threats to their lives. Mayor Bob Baker also resigned for health reasons. State troopers handle patrols as Police Chief William Wilson was killed last Sunday. Bert Cobin, 57, faces murder charges. Ragland plans a career in law enforcement.
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Ala
Alabama
Randall Ragland
Bob Baker
Ragland
Jacksonville State University
William Wilson
Bert Cobin
Changes aim to lift rate ceilings to keep deposits flowing
The official stressed at a news briefing that the primary aim of the reforms is to sustain deposit inflows to banks and savings and loan institutions by raising the ceilings on interest rates.
Man dies of self-inflicted gunshot in Alabama home
Limestone County coroner Ralph Padgett ruled the death of 53 year old Walter Raymond Lewis as death by own action. Lewis shot himself in the heart with a .32 caliber pistol in his bedroom at about 11 45 a m. He was described as NASA employed and in poor health. Funeral arrangements will be announced by McConnell Funeral Home.
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Ralph Padgett
Padgett
Walter Raymond Lewis
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NASA
McConnell Funeral Home
Dean Said Files Contained Classified Papers Not In Watergate
Gray testified that two white manila folders held copies of sensitive papers of a political nature by Howard Hunt. He said the papers had national security implications but were not related to Watergate. He moved the files from home to the office and kept them in a personal safe weeks later.
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Skylab mission faces delays and rescue readiness amid thruster trouble
After six days with motion sickness and repeated flight plan changes, the Skylab crew faced a postponed space walk and a precautionary rescue contingency. Apollo still maintains enough capability to return, but mission managers keep a potential Saturn I B rescue ready as Cape Kennedy ramps up operations while the crew resumes experiments aboard the 271 mile high station.
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