White House Sets Guidelines for Watergate Testimony
The White House released broad guidelines for staff before Watergate probes, signaling limits on discussing conversations with Nixon. The move followed Nixon’s nomination of Gen. Haig as interim staff coordinator, replacing Haldeman, and hints Haig could stay through the term’s end.
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Key Biscayne
Fla
White House
Nixon
Florida White House
Army
Alexander M. Haig Jr
H. R. Haldeman
Ronald L. Ziegler
Haig
Henry A. Kissinger
FBI
Ervin
Senate Select) Committee
Grand Jury
Sam J. Ervin Jr
West Point
Kissinger
Indicted Segretti in Florida letter disruption case
Federal grand jury charges Donald Segretti and George Hearing with mailing a phony campaign letter on Muskie stationery to disrupt the 1972 Florida Democratic primary campaigns. The indictment cites a $50 payment to Robert Benz and links to a broader Watergate context as Jackson seeks Senate inquiry.
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Orlando, Fla
Donald H. Segretti
Florida
U.S
Edmund S. Muskie
Henry M. Jackson
Segretti
Marina del Ray
Calif
George A
Tampa
Washington
Robert Benz
Odessa
Fla
Tampa Young Republicans
Benz
Nixon
Herbert Kalmbach
Los Angeles
California
Hearing
Ralph Russo
Jackson
U.S. Senate Select Watergate Committee
Briggs
Ex aide Krogh admits overseeing Pentagon Papers break-in
Former White House aide Egil Krogh signed an affidavit admitting he supervised the break-in of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist office. He sent copies to Judge Matt Byrne in the Los Angeles Pentagon papers trial.
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Washington (Ap
White House
Egil ‘Bud’ Krogh
Daniel Ellsberg
Krogh
U.S. District Court
Matt Byrne
Los Angeles
Nixon
John D. Ehrlichman
Kissinger and Brezhnev to discuss arms and trade at Zavidovo
In Moscow Kissinger prepares to meet Brezhnev at Zavidovo to set an agenda for Brezhnev's U.S. visit and to discuss arms limits, force reductions in Europe, and Soviet U.S. trade. The entourage includes Sonnenfeldt Hyland and Odeen.
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Moscow
Henry A. Kissinger
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Zavidovo
Brezhnev
United States
Kissinger
Europe
Helmut Sonnenfeldt
William G. Hyland
Philip A. Odeen
Copenhagen
A. Alexis Johnson
U.S
Edward Heath
Alec Douglas Home
London
Nixon
Michel Jobert
Georges Po
Diplomat Kidnapped in Mexico Demands Prisoner Swap
U S Consul General Terrence G. Leonhardy was abducted in Guadalajara by three leftist militants who demanded the release and transport to Cuba of 30 prisoners. They warned against police mobilization during talks and claimed responsibility for the kidnapping.
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Guadalajara
Mexico
U.S
Terrence G. Leonhardy
Cuba
Leonhardy
Armed Revolutionary Forces of the People
Jalisco
Mexico City
Weather outlook for Mid dletown area tonight through Wednesday
Clear to partly sunny skies with warm temperatures are forecast. Tonight temps in the 40s. Sunday should bring sunny skies and highs in the low 70s. The outlook calls for a slight chance of rain Monday with highs near 80, then cooler on Tuesday and Wednesday with highs around 70.
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Middletown
Vesco donation questioned and later returned in Nixon era probe
After civil charges against financier Robert Vesco, a $250000 campaign contribution was questioned as potentially stolen money. It was returned to Vesco days later as investigations broadened to include Maurice Stans and others linked to the Nixon campaign.
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Associated Press Washington
Robert L. Vesco
Nixon
SEC
Vesco
Maurice Stans
Nixon Campaign
Stans
G. Bradford Cook
Connecticut and Nevada restore death penalty for certain crimes
Connecticut and Nevada have reinstated the death penalty for specific crimes including murder of police or fire personnel on duty, murder for pay, and murders by life-sentence inmates. Connecticut adds penalties for certain drug killings and prior murder convictions, while Nevada includes bombing deaths and multi murder schemes. Governors Meskill and O Callaghan signed the laws, despite Supreme Court rulings and post ruling unsettled status.
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Associated Press
Connecticut
Nevada
Thomas J. Meskill
Mike O'Callaghan
U.S. Supreme Court
Skylab 1 rehearsal ends in success at Cape Kennedy
Space officials report the nine day countdown rehearsal for Skylab 1 finished Friday without significant problems paving the way for the May 14 launch. Astronauts Conrad Weitz and Kerwin wore spacesuits and participated in the final countdown from a modified Apollo ship atop a Saturn 1B rocket.
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Cape Kennedy, Fla
Space Agency
America
Laud
Walter Kapryan
Kapryan
Charles Conrad Jr
Paul J. Weitz
Joseph P. Kerwin
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