North Carolina bill on minors venereal disease and contraception
State Senate spiked a bill to allow contraceptive information and devices for minors with medical evidence of activity, while doctors may treat venereal disease or perform abortions for minors without parental consent. Health officials warn rising incidents among youths demand coordinated action.
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State Senate
North Carolina
Guilford County
Sarah Morrow
Marshall Rauch
Gaston County
Senate
Helm pushes east NC medical school to gain GOP votes
Senator Helms writes GOP leaders urging they seize the initiative on the Greenville medical school issue. He weighs politics over expert studies deeming a full school unjustified. Lt. Gov. Hunt also plays eastern ties, while easterners trade for regional gains with Piedmont and West.
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Jesse Helm
East Carolina University Medical School
North Carolina
Sen. Helms
Greenville
Jim Hunt
General Assembly
University Board of Governors
Piedmont
West
Nixon pursues new federalism reshaping social programs
President Nixon presses his new federalism plan to curb federal social welfare expansion. He vetoes contested bills as revenue sharing moves power to states, while Congress debates the fate of 1960s anti poverty programs. The piece traces federal aid origins from the Great Depression to the New Deal and weighs potential program cuts against lingering social ills.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
Senate
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Cleveland
Watergate Probe Tightens Around Nixon Aides
Washington reports three top Nixon advisers John Mitchell Jeb Magruder and John Dean face mounting scrutiny as grand jury testimony links them to a planned bugging operation. Witnesses describe a February 1972 meeting at the Justice Department where charts were prepared and a mysterious brown package carried into Liddys office.
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Washington
Nixon
John Mitchell
Jeb Magruder
White House
John Dean
Prand
James McCord
Mitchell
Justice Department
Magruder
Dean
Watergate
G. Gordon Liddy
McCord
Gordon Liddy
Department of Justice
Liddy
Silvia Panarites
Grand Jury
Watergate details surface in testimony and secrecy
Testimony reveals Magruder attended a February 1972 meeting where Watergate bugging was discussed, while Liddy’s alleged plans and secret Gemstone stationery emerge. Reisner recalls a Gemstone folder tied to Liddy and Magruder, suggesting deeper knowledge of covert activity, as officials debate what was known. Washington nicknames and gas rationing jokes close the damaged report.
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Justice
Magruder
Liddy
Sally Harmony
Democratic Party
Campaign Committee
Watergate
California
Robert Reisner
Reisner
Earl Silbert
Robert Odle
Gordon Liddy
Powell Affair shows Congress acting as judge and jury
In 1967 the House refused to seat Adam Clayton Powell citing personal life and ethics, prompting a diary by Congressman Andy Jacobs. The Powell Affair ended with Powell's seat voided then restored, and a 1969 Supreme Court ruling deeming the action unconstitutional. The episode underscored that voters choose representatives, not a private club.
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John P. Roche
King Features Syndicate
House of Representatives
The
Republic
Congress
Adam Clayton Powell
Harlem
Massa
House Committee On Education and Labor
Powell
House
Jacobs
Andy Jacobs
Indiana
Bobbs-Merrill
Select Committee
Supreme Court
Celler
Marvin Watson
Johnson
Oval Office
Johnnie
New York
United States
Corruption's Base by Ernest CuenO
Washington column argues that corruption stems from government wealth and hypocrisy not merely from politicians. It cites indictments in New York Miami and New Jersey and notes Wall Street money shifting to government, with examples from insurers stockbrokers Penn Central and welfare fund cases.
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Ernest Cuneo
North American Newspaper Alliance
Washington
Lindsay Administration
New York
Wall Street
U.S
Hill Committees
J. P. Morgan
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Congress
Penn Central Railroad
United States
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A. James Reichley
Fortune Magazine
Mary Poppins
Seymour Glanzer
Gemstone’ Papers
Senator Soaper
Cities
San Clemente
Potomac
Merry
By Jack Anderson
Florida
Miami
New Jersey
William Cahill
Bergen County
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