Senate Watergate Committee Seeks Mandate Extension
The Senate Watergate Committee voted to extend its mandate to June 30 after concluding it cannot finish its final report by May 28. Chairman Sam J. Ervin Jr. said staff would remove any findings of individual guilt and base the report on Watergate events and legislative recommendations. It was not stated whether steps would be taken to compel C. G. Rebozo to comply with a broad subpoena.
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Washington
Senate Watergate Committee
Senate
Sam J. Ervin Jr
D-N.c
Ervin
C. G
Bebe’’ Rebozo
Nixon
Alexander M. Haig Jr
Haig
Congress
Rebozo
Howard Hughes
Herbert W. Kalmbach
Rose Mary Woods
F. Donald
Edward Nixon
Nixons
Stanley McKiernan
Samuel Cash
Cash
Eagleton seeks to block AWACS purchase funds
Senator Eagleton urges the Senate Appropriations Committee to deny 350 million dollars for AWACS procurement, arguing the 42 planned aircraft are suited to an obsolete defense role and could be jammed or outmatched in a European conflict. The Defense Department counters AWACS can operate in tactical environments and tests show mixed results. The story also notes related congressional probes involving Watergate figures and Haig testimony, plus Hirohito hosting Malraux in Tokyo with Tanaka meeting later.
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Washington
Tom Eagleton
Senate Appropriations Committee
Eagleton
Air Force
General Accounting Office
Defense Department
Department
Senate Armed Services ‘Subcommittee On
Tactical Air
Jawacs
House panel backs tighter security rules for presidential homes
The House Government Operations Committee approved a report urging stricter curbs on security spending for presidential residences. It cites 17.1 million spent on Nixon era homes, mostly for security systems, and calls for reimbursement of improper costs while tightening oversight by the Secret Service.
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Washington
House
Nixon
Née
John Buchanan
Buchanan
Frank Horton
New York
Horton
Lyndon B. Johnson
Jack Brooks
D-Texas
Secret Service
Stover Named To US Gypsum Board Directors
Graham J. Morgan announces that Harry M. Stover is elected to the board of directors of United States Gypsum Co. Stover, president and COO of A. P. Green Refractories, will join USG after Green became a wholly owned subsidiary in 1967. He is USC civil engineering graduate and has held multiple Green roles since 1954.
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Graham J. Morgan
Harry M. Stover
United States Gypsum Co
Mr. Stover
A.P. Green Refractories Co
USG
University of Southern California
Green Company
Stover
A.P. Green Refractories (Canada) Ltd
Toronto
Bigelow-Liptak Corp
Detroit
Michigan
United States
Gypsum Co
Tom Coldwell Injured In Mower Accident
Thomas Coldwell of Mexico, nursing home administrator, sustained a brain concussion and skull injuries when a riding mower flipped onto him at the Coldwell Nursing Home. He was treated at Audrain Medical Center and Boone County Hospital, where he remains in Room 650 in satisfactory condition.
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Thomas Coldwell
Mexico
Coldwell Nursing Home
Coldwell
Mr. Coldwell
Audrain Medical Center
Boone County Hospital
Eileen Seckler
Brooke Assails Anti-Bus Bill Across Desegregation Policy
In Washington Senator Edward Brooke the only Black senator denounces a Gurney proposed amendment to a 23 billion education bill as reviving racial separatism by curbing desegregation busing. He warns it creates two nations white and Black while noting Nixon support and expects a tight vote on limits to busing and on Title 1 funding to aid disadvantaged students.
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Washington
Edward W. Brooke
America
Brooke
Massachusetts
Republican
Edward J. Gurney
Ak-Fla
Nixon
Congress
Gurney
Supreme Court
Ment
United States
Senate
James L. Buckley
Con- R-Ny
Monroe City Names Joseph P. Williams Postmaster
Joseph P. Williams named postmaster for Monroe City post office. He has served as officer in charge since November 14 last year and was born in Monroe City where he has lived all his life. A Monroe City High School graduate, Williams began with the U S Postal Service in 1951 as a temporary substitute city carrier.
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Monroe City
Joseph P. Williams
Williams
U.S. Postal Service
Model Car Builder Eyes Glued Shut in Accident
Eleven year old Michael Harris accidentally glued his left eye shut while building a model car. A 150 mile drive to a Fort Lauderdale ophthalmologist freed his eye after slips with tube glue. He spent one night in hospital and remains eager to continue model building with caution.
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Okeechobee
Fla
Michael Harris
Fort Lauderdale
Michael
Harris
Daley’s Chicago Mayoral Succession Talk Heats Up
Chicago talks of a successor as Daley, 72, recovers from a mild stroke after hospitalization on May 6. Dems consider a post–Daley era while the aging mayor may seek reentry. potential successors include Lt. Gov. Hartigan, Assessor Tully, Alderman Pucinski, George Dunne, and U.S. Atty. Thompson, with Black leadership ambitions noted.
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Chicago
Richard J. Daley
Daley
Democrats
U.S
Neil Hartigan
Thomas Tully
Roman C. Pucinski
Charles H. Percy
George Dunne
Cook County Board
White House Defends Nixon Jewels Gift Story
White House spokesman condemns a Washington Post column about more than 52400 dollars in jewels given to First Lady Pat Nixon and daughters by Saudi royalty as an inexcusable attempt to demean the First Family. Deputy Press Secretary Warren says the jewels were government property and properly recorded in 1972.
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Washington
White House
Pat Nixon
Washington Post
Maxine Cheshire
Nixon
Gerald L. Warren
Warren
Nixon says Plumbers acted under his authority in Ellsberg break-in
In a Washington dated letter to Judge Gesell the White House said the plumbers were operating under a general delegation of presidential authority. The Times quotes that Nixon intended full constitutional authority and the law to guide the Ellsberg office burglary probe. Ehrlichman Colson and four others face trial for the 1971 break-in.
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New York
Nixon
White House
Daniel Ellaberg
New York Times
The
Times
U.S
Gerhard A. Gesell
Washington
Plumbers
Ellsberg
Defense Department
Gesell
John D. Ehrlichman
Charles W. Colson
Los Angeles
Ehrlichman
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