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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1974
Page
11
President Nixon declared he does not expect to be impeached and will not resign in a wide ranging news conference. He said gasoline rationing is unlikely and discussed Watergate, energy policy, taxes, and detente while noting he declined to testify before a Watergate grand jury on constitutional grounds.
RALEIGH AP Expansion of East Carolina University School of Medicine cleared a key Budget committee vote 49 to 28 to expand first year medical education and add a second year program. It directs the UNC Board of Governors to recruit minorities and focus on family practice while seeking accreditation. The measure, paired with a $15 million building funding aim, awaits budget bills in March.
Readers submit questions on local issues and services. Items cover city budgets for 1973 74, onion cutting dates via moon tables, construction completion delays on E Lexington N Centennial, Head Start contact via Model Cities, an underpass dye incident at Ragan Hosiery, and a welder offering stainless steel altar ware samples with contact details.
North Carolina Supreme Court, in a 4-3 vote, upheld the death sentence for Henry Jarrette, sending the case toward possible U.S. Supreme Court review. The decision rejected NAACP Legal Defense Fund arguments that capital punishment is arbitrary and racially biased.
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger met with British leaders Sir Alec Douglas-Home and Lord Carrington in London to discuss the Middle East energy crisis and East West arms talks on his way to pursue an Israeli Syrian disengagement plan. Aide says Assad appears ready to negotiate, with Egyptian and Saudi influence noted. a full disengagement plan this week is unlikely. Nixon says oil embargo and Arab-Israeli peace are not directly linked.
President Nixon said he would not testify before the Watergate grand juries on constitutional grounds but offered to answer questions or meet with special prosecutor Leon Jaworski. Jaworski did not immediately comment, and the move could trigger a landmark confrontation.
President Nixon called the energy crisis a serious problem and said lines for gasoline could ease by spring with an end to the Arab oil embargo. He warned against an oil price rollback tied to a veto threat, urged windfall profits tax, natural gas price deregulation, and coal use expansion while saying no national rationing is needed if supplies improve.
AP analysis notes major shifts after NC primary filing deadline. Horton withdrew after endorsing by Jesse Helms, leaving William Stevens facing three GOP rivals with limited statewide exposure and state-wide fundraising hurdles. Stevens relies on Holshouser’s faction and Broyhill connections for support.
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