Auto Sticker Program to Show Gas Mileage on 1975 Cars
GM and Ford join EPA voluntary plan to post federal mileage figures on 1975 models. Chrysler and AMC hesitate or refuse. imports like Toyota and Rolls-Royce will participate. Labels will detail city MPG ranges and improve on 1974 tests, guiding buyers with concrete figures.
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Ford Motor Co
Environmental Protection Agency
Chrysler Corp
American Motors
AMCA
EPA
AMC
Checker
Toyota
Aston Martin
British Leyland
Biw
Rolls-Royce
Entrapment Debate Over Dallas Prostitution Decoy Case
A Dallas police decoy posing as a prostitute has led to about 70 men being charged in three weeks. A North Texas State University student questions entrapment, noting the decoy’s claims to not lure customers and that arrests require an offer of money. Lawyers differ on legality, with some deeming it entrapment as officers stage inducement. The student fears the case could impact his future employment.
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Dallas
Tex
North Texas State University
Plans Shaped House Set To Begin Impeachment Debate
House leaders plan the first presidential impeachment debate in ten years for August 19 with votes about eight days later. Live TV and radio coverage expected. Seven days debate and three to four days of voting on the articles. Rules Committee to finalize procedures by August 13. Senate seeks to keep impeachment trial rules largely intact. Nixon strategy not disclosed.
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Washington
House
House Rules Committee
Nixon Shifts Strategy to Political Battle Over Impeachment
Washington AP Nixon campaign strategy shifts as Deputy Press Secretary Gerald L. Warren frames the impeachment fight as a political struggle. He says the White House faces uphill odds in the House, where the process is political rather than solely legal.
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White House
Nixon
House of Representatives
Gerald L. Warren
Warren
House
Jobless Rate Rises Slightly
Washington AP reports the U S unemployment rate rose slightly from 5.2 to 5.3 percent from June to July and remained within a broad 5 to 5.2 percent range for the year. The Labor Department called July’s uptick not significant. Kenneth Bush and Walter Heller offered differing forecasts for year end and next year.
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Labor Department
Nixon
Kenneth Bush
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Walter Heller
Heller
Council of Economic Advisers
Kennedy and Johnson
Obstruction Plea Sentences Dean to One to Four Years
Former White House counsel John W. Dean III was sentenced to one to four years in prison for conspiring to obstruct justice in the Watergate cover up. Judge John J. Sirica ordered a Sept. 3 start and said Dean would likely serve in a minimum security facility in California amid noting illness in his mother in law as a factor.
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White House
John W. Dean III
Dean
Nixon
U.S
John J. Sirica
Sirica
Lompoc
Calif
Supreme Court
former senator Daniel Brewster gets new trial
The U S Court of Appeals overturned Brewster's bribery conviction from February 2, 1973, ruling trial judge Hart erred in jury instructions. Brewster, a Maryland Democrat, faced two to six years and a $30,000 fine after being found to accept over $14,000 from Spiegel Inc. for influence on postal rate legislation. Anderson also appealed as the lobbyist in the case.
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Washington
U.S. Court of Appeals
U.S
Daniel
Brewster
Maryland
Spiegal Inc
George L. Hart
Cyrus Anderson
Hrewster
Anderson
Nixon asks Congress to create cost of living task force
President Nixon urged Congress to establish a White House cost of living task force to monitor wage and price increases as part of the inflation fight. The panel would be ongoing but lack enforcement power and would not impose direct controls, a White House spokesman said.
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Nixon
Congress
White House
Capitol Hill
Parents Gain Right to Inspect School Records Under Act
The omnibus education bill sent to President Nixon includes the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 allowing parents of students in federally funded schools to inspect challenge and protect their children's records. The House initially rejected the section but later approved the final compromise.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
House
Senate
Burger's Fairness Questioned in Impeachment Rules
Senate Democrats push overhaul of impeachment rules citing fear Chief Justice Burger may bias rulings in a Nixon impeachment trial. They seek standards on evidence and proof to limit Burger's latitude, arguing public praise of Burger masks concerns. Senator Mansfield frames this as a constitutional prerogative issue.
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Mike Mansfield
Warren E. Burger
House
Nixon
Senate
Washington
Warren £. Burger
Burger
White House
Earl Warren
Warren
Montana Democrat
Mansfield
Supreme Court
Salmon Chase
Andrew Johnson
Dallas firm executives secretly gave Mills $100000
Milledge A. Hart II and Melvin L. Stauffer of Electronic Data Systems funded Wilbur D. Mills in 1972 with 100000 via 17 dummy committees. Mills, then chairman of Ways and Means, claimed no knowledge of the gift and defended it as unproblematic while elections loosened rules on corporate donations. The donation paralleled other large corporate gifts to Nixon.
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Dallas
Wilbur D. Mills
Arkansas Democrat
White House
Electronic Data Systems Corp
Mills
House
Milledge A. Hart II
Melvin L. Stauffer
Hart
Stauffer
Students For Better Government
Fiscal Sanity Committee
Senate Watergate Committee
Nixon
EDS
Tori Marquez
Hart-Stauffer
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