Nixon Campaign Reveals $60 Million In Donations
Secret donors provided $18.2 million of concealed gifts from ambassadors bankers and industrialists raising the Nixon campaign total to about $60 million. Major giver W Clement Stone contributed $20 million followed by Richard Scaife $1 million and Rockefeller family members $200 000 with Bob Hope and Howard Hughes giving smaller sums.
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Agnew Probe Continues as Court Hears Evidence
U S District Court Judge Walter E Hoffman says the grand jury may hear more evidence next week as Agnew's lawyers debate stopping the investigation. Agnew spoke in California at a Republican women’s group. CBS News cites an urban planner on a federal contract request involving Agnew. A fund for Agnew's legal defense names Barry Goldwater Warren Hearnes and Stone as trustees. Stone warns defense costs could reach 500000. The motion was filed in Baltimore just before the Norfolk hearing.
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Hostages Freed After Vienna Transit Center Closure
Two Arab men identified as Moustafa Soueidan and Mahmoud Khaldi freed four hostages in Vienna after Austria agreed to shut a Jewish transit center south of the city. Their Cessna 414 then flew to Cagliari via Sardinia after being denied landings by Algeria Libya and Tunisia. The group had halted a train into Austria and abducted three Soviet emigrants and a border guard.
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Mantan Moreland Dies at 71 in Los Angeles
Mantan Moreland, famed black comic known for Feets dont fail me now and Birmingham Brown in Charlie Chan films, dies at 71 from complications after a cerebral hemorrhage. He toured as a dancer in youth, worked in circus vaudeville and burlesque, and began on radio before film work.
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Connally urges GOP women to revitalize party at NF RW convention
Former presidential adviser John B. Connally tells 17th National Federation of Republican Women delegates that only women can inject life into the party. He says men talk while women do the work and urges explaining why the nation is great. About 2,000 delegates meet outside Washington for the first time.
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Nixon and Brandt Meet to Strengthen Atlantic Partnership
President Nixon and West German Chancellor Willy Brandt plan to align U S and Common Market ideas on the Atlantic partnership. Brandt's Washington visit included talks with Kissinger and Schlesinger before a New York return. The goal is to produce two declarations of principle to sign in Europe later this year or in early 1974.
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Ohio gas dealers set to post higher prices today
Ohio gasoline dealers expect immediate pump price increases after the Cost of Living Council allowance of 1 to 2.5 cents per gallon based on May 15 selling price and wholesale cost changes. Dealers warn relief is temporary without pass-through of higher costs to consumers.
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Missing plane hunt resumes in Arkansas
The search for Texas International Flight 655, a 75 mile El Dorado to Texarkana flight with 11 aboard, resumes at dawn in southwest Arkansas after 45 aircraft logged 115 sorties Friday without locating the Convair turboprop jet. Three Arkansas National Guardsmen died in a fog en route to help.
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Amnesty lifted in St Louis jail takeover case
Seven male prisoners had been granted amnesty for releasing 14 women hostages during a six hour barricade in the jail’s women’s section. Amnesty was reversed as investigators probe the incident. Nine women later showed signs of sexual assault after medical exams.
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Edward Tripp
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Middletown Sees Weekend Shower Chances
Light showers that fell in the Middletown area Friday night are expected again tonight and Sunday. Lows tonight near the 60s with highs Sunday in the 70s.
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