Watergate Figures to Be Released Pending Appeals
Washington AP reports Howard Hunt and Bernard Barker will be released from prison next week to await appeal outcomes. The U.S. Court of Appeals ordered their release Friday and withheld ruling on three other conspirators pending a parole hearing January 7.
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Pensacola
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Senate Watergate Committee
White House
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Congress
Nixon
C. Dickerman Williams
New York
Daniel Schultz
Frank A. Sturgis
Virgilio R. Gonzalez
Eugenio Martinez
Rules Tighten On Nuclear Safety Rules Tighten On Nuclear Safety
The Atomic Energy Commission announced stricter safety rules for most U.S. nuclear plants to take effect in about seven months. Compliance may force some plants to cut power next summer, with six months of study planned to assess impacts. Exemptions may be allowed if public health remains safe, amid criticism of ECCS cooling systems.
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Atomic Energy Commission
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Gas Scarcity Feared For New Year Holiday
The Auto Club of Missouri warned gasoline may be scarcer during the New Year holiday than Christmas in Kansas and Missouri as stations exhaust monthly allocations and some open sites will close. In Brooklyn, three gunmen hijacked a Texaco tanker, took 5000 gallons, blindfolded the driver, dumped him in a car, and later abandoned the truck.
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New York
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Snowflakes by Billion Lifts Audrain County Snowfall
A light three hour snow drift covers Audrain County with billions of flakes from a cold Canadian air mass. The National Weather Service forecasts continued cold, chances of more snow and mixed precipitation across Missouri with lows in the teens to mid twenties and highs in the thirties.
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Missouri
National Weather Service
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Vichy
Missouri Adopts Dissolution Of Marriage In 1973 Law
The 1973 Missouri legislature shifts from fault based divorce to dissolution of marriage. A marriage can be dissolved if irretrievably broken, or if one party finds living with the other intolerable. The new rules expand court role in custody, support, and property, while removing old defenses and complicating paths to remarry during appeals.
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Usher Elected To Legislature In Missouri Special
R L Usher of Macon won the Missouri state representative seat for the 12th District in a Friday special election. He defeated James Bolin 2 516 to 2 231, filling the vacancy after Ronald Belt became a circuit court judge. The district covers parts of Macon Linn Knox and Shelby counties. A separate Stratford Wisconsin note reports a pregnant shopper used a wine bottle as a makeshift container for a urine sample and later found the bottle stolen from her car seat.
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R. L. Usher
Usher
Highway Patrol
James Bolin
Ronald Belt
Linn
Knox
Shelby
Stratford
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GM to lay off 38000 workers amid sales slump
GM announces indefinite layoff of about 38000 hourly workers and 48000 temporary cuts lasting up to 10 days. Second shifts will end January 21 at five plants and January 28 at two more, with seven plants idled starting January 7. Buick and Flint remain affected. 15 plants will keep operating at capacity.
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General Motors
United States
Richard C. Gerstenberg
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Ford
Fairfax
Kan
Linden
N.J
South Gate
Calif
St. Louis
Gerstenberg
Suit Seeks To Make Public Nixon Papers
A Freedom of Information suit filed in Washington seeks to force the government to release vice presidential papers Nixon claimed 482000 in tax deductions for. Ralph Nader's Tax Reform Research Group says restrictions are invalid and asks a U.S. district court to order disclosure. The suit argues most papers were government property and the deed was not properly executed.
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Nixon
Ralph Nader
Tax Reform Research Group
U.S. District Court
National Archives
United States
Richard M. Nixon
Venezuela Hikes Cost of US Gas
Caracas Venezuela AP report says Venezuela almost doubles its tax reference price on crude to a world record 14.08 dollars a barrel, up from 7.74 this month, effective January 1. Oil industry spokesmen expect some pass through to U S consumers but offer no firm estimates. Venezuela supplies about 16 percent of U S oil imports, roughly 1.7 million barrels daily, with Canada and Europe also sourcing sizable shares.
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Venezuela
United States
U.S
Canada
Caribbean
South America
Nixon Is Greeted By Demonstrators At Doctor’s Wedding
President Nixon attended the wedding of Dr. Walter Tkach and Cheryle Gaillard in La Jolla California amid 600 to 700 protesters. Demonstrators hissed insults and hung Nixon in effigy as he and his party arrived and departed by rear gate. An arrest was reported for a rock thrower.
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Air Force
Nixon
White House
Ernest Gaillard Jr
San Clemente
First Female Career Postal Worker In Mexico Stamp Office
Mrs. Edward Dubrouillet of Mexico becomes the town’s first female career employee at the local post office. Arland Peck, postmaster, notes she topped a recent test, will work near full time in sorting, window duties, and other tasks, with training ongoing, following prior experience with women at Florissant.
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Carol) Dubrouillet
Mexico
Arland Peck
Dubrouillet
Florissant
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