Nixon Defends Innocence in Watergate Probe in Chicago
President Nixon told Chicago Executives Club the Watergate accusations are totally false and said resigning would damage the presidency. He warned future leaders could be toppled by unproven charges and outlined views on Europe, the Middle East, detente, and cooperation with the House Judiciary Committee amid the impeachment inquiry.
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Chicago
Nixon
Executives Club of
Nashville
Grand Ole Opry
Houston
Eudience
United States
Europe
Atlantic
Middle East
Soviet Union
Israel
House Judiciary Committee
John W. Dean III
Oil ministers in Vienna mull higher price hike threshold
In Vienna Arab and OPEC ministers discuss raising oil above $11.65 per barrel with no decision yet. Iran and Kuwait officials indicate talks are not finished as embargo lift and price changes are linked by economic factors. Meetings expected to continue Sunday with possible embargo status and output adjustments debated.
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Vienna
Austria
Economic Commission
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OPEC
Iran
Jamshid Amouzeyar
Kuwait
Abdul Rahman Attegy
Amouzegar
United States
Belaid Abdesselam
Valentin Hernandez Acosta
Tripoli
Libya
Saudi Arabia
Ahmed Zaki Yamani
CBS News
Yamani
Faisal
Israel
Cairo
al Akhbar
Akhbar el- Youm
Zuela
Ecuador
Nigeria
Indonesia
Gabon
Iraq
Qatar
United Arab Emirates
Algeria
Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries
OAPEC
Europe Braces as Nixon Warns of Isolationism
European newspapers react to President Nixon's Chicago speech warning allies of noncooperation. Headlines in London and Rome frame the remarks as elevating the risk of a trade war and a new American isolationism, while Bonn notes delayed NATO talks amid cautious harmony with the United States.
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Associated Press
Nixon
Chicago
London
Daily Mail
Britain
Europe
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
the Mail
Rome
Messaggero
America
United States
London Times
Washington
Kissinger
Atlantic
West Germany
NATO
Bonn
Middle East
Russia Plans To Increase Crop Lands
Soviet leaders disclosed a 15 year plan to transform 124 million virgin acres into arable land and grazing zones extending from Ukraine to western Siberia. The program aims to raise Russia’s grain lands by about 30 percent with 35 billion rubles to be spent over 1976 to 1990, signaling a broader push beyond Brezhnev’s initial five year outline.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Kremlin
Russia
Pravda
Communist Party
Leonid Brezhnev
Alma Ata
Kazakhstan
Brezhnev
Communist Party Daily
Ukraine
Baltic States
Byelorussia
Ural Mountains
Siberia
Ford Appeals To Southern Republicans
Vice President Gerald R. Ford urged Southern Republicans to stem a Democratic landslide in the 1974 elections during two South Carolina appearances. He criticized the House Judiciary Committee staff for its impeachment study and urged delegates to unite back strong candidates and mobilize effort beyond 1972.
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Columbia, S.C
Gerald R. Ford
South
Ford
South Carolina
House Judiciary Committee
Nixon
Columbia
Abductor Sought In Missouri Deputy Shooting
Jefferson County sheriff deputy Walter Vandaveer was shot in the hip after an abduction by a man and his female companion who then forced rural Dittmer couple Leslie and Mrs Schormann into their car. The deputies and suspects sought across the area as authorities investigate the Cedar Hill drug raid.
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ST. Louis
Jefferson County
Dittmer
Walter Vandaveer
Missouri
Cedar Hill
Vandaveer
Hillsboro
Walter Buerger
Leslie Schormann
Schormann
St. Louis County
Nixon Aide Details $200000 Vesco Donation to Nixon 1972
New York AP report recounts witness Hugh W Sloan Jr testifying that Maurice H Stans directed recording a $200,000 Vesco donation to Nixon's 1972 campaign as from John N Mitchell. Sloan described receiving a bank bag with $200,000 and marking it JM in the cash book. The trial of Stans and Mitchell centers on impeding an SEC probe into Vesco.
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New York
White House
Commerce
Maurice H. Stans
Robert L. Vesco
Nixon
John N. Mitchell
John Mitchell
J. M
Sloan
Stang
Mitchell
Securities and Exchange Commission
Yesco
Aes
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Rick Ackerman
Dennis Plehn
Los Angeles
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Reigel Textile Co
Reigel
Ravenwood
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Sara Bradshaw
Jeff Mackey
Vocal Music Department of
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Empire Club
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Diane Monk
Don Dempski
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Debbie Kirchhoff
Mark Fine
Minneapolis, Minn
FBI
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Hugo
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Genar Kronholm
Drover’s State Bank
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