ITT papers cite Agnew and Nixon aides in SEC probe
The SEC summaries released by the House subcommittee name Vice President Spiro Agnew and several current and former Nixon officials in materials tied to ITT. The memos discuss ITT efforts to influence antitrust outcomes with the Justice Department and mention Harold Geneen and others in meetings with Colson and Ehrlichman.
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Diplomats Seek U S Panama Canal Solution
U S and Panama diplomats worked into the night seeking a compromise on a United Nations Security Council resolution about U S control of the Panama Canal Zone. Both sides aim to satisfy Panama without provoking a U S veto as a Wednesday vote nears. Aquilino Boyd and John Seals reported progress in a frank atmosphere as Panama seeks to avoid a veto while maintaining principles. Scali had threatened to veto last week’s Panama Peru proposal calling for turnover of the canal zone.
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Supreme Court to Hear Exclusionary Rule Cases
The Supreme Court agreed to hear two cases on constitutional limits of searches and the exclusionary rule. The rule bars unlawfully obtained evidence and dates to 1914 federally and 1961 in state courts. One case involves Willie Robinson Jr. and a 1968 traffic stop yielding heroin, with a ruling that police exceeded limits by conducting a field weapons search.
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Warren E. Burger
Supreme Court
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U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
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Iraqi Troops Seize Kuwait Border Post
Iraqi forces seized a Kuwait border post before dawn and shelled another near Am Kasr on the Persian Gulf, wounding four border guards. Kuwait urged immediate withdrawal as a 12 year dispute over oil deposits fuels negotiations with Iraq, with talks planned in Baghdad and Kuwait City.
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Al Fatah Lets Sudan Guerrillas Stand Trial
In Cairo the PLO said eight Black September terrorists who killed three diplomats in Khartoum would be tried by Sudanese authorities. A Khartoum statement indicated the PLO washed its hands of the case, treating it as eight individuals rather than a PLO plot.
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Security expert testifies on top secret flaws in classification
Los Angeles AP report notes security expert William G. Florence, who helped shape Air Force and Pentagon rules, argued that top secret markings reveal little about contents. He testified under cross examination as Ellsberg and Russo face espionage and theft charges, while the defense questions the system’s validity and implications of misclassification.
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Watchdog Committee Eyes Lending Rates
Washington AP Burns heads the Nixon era watchdog group on interest and dividends asks Manufacturers Hanover Trust and Marine Midland to justify a one half percentage point rise to six percent. He calls for bank reps to Washington Thursday with up-to-date cost data. The committee may jawbone banks to restrain prime rates though mandatory controls seem unlikely.
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Nixon
Arthur F. Burns
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New York
Hanover Trust
Marine Midland
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Congressman Asks White House To Freeze Food Prices
Rep. Pierre S. du Pont of Delaware asked the White House to freeze wholesale food prices. He told a Wilmington news conference that action is absolutely necessary to slow the momentum of rising prices.
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Wilmington
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Pierre S. du Pont
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Sirhan Brother Indicted For Threat To Golda Meir
Sharif Bishara Sirhan, 39, brother of Sirhan Sirhan who killed Robert Kennedy, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of threatening Israeli premier Golda Meir. He was arrested in Pasadena by the FBI and is held on 50000 dollars bond. The threat was in a letter to Secretary of State William P. Rogers about a month earlier. Meir had just completed a U S visit.
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Robert F. Kennedy
Golda Meir
Sharif Bishara Sirhan
FBI
Pasadena
William P. Rogers
Gray Returns For Questioning On FBI Nomination
Gray appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee amid a power struggle over his nomination as FBI director. Aides say Attorney General Kleindienst ordered withdrawal of access to raw FBI files on the Democratic National Committee bugging, restricting access to the chairman and ranking minority member. Nixon’s policy pushes limits on distributing sensitive files, to avoid harm from leaks. Gray, acting FBI director since Hoover's death, defended the probe into the June 1970 DNC bugging and sought to let senators inspect the files.
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L. Patrick Gray III
FBI
Senate Judiciary Committee
Richard G. Kleindienst
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Birch Bayh
D-Ind
Kleindienst
Bayh
James O. Eastland
D-Miss
Roman L. Hruska
R-Neb
Nixon
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
Judiciary Committee
Nixon Drug Control Proposal Sent to Congress
The Department of Justice sent President Nixon's drug abuse strategy to the House. It would amend the 1970 law to impose tougher penalties including a mandatory life term for certain second offenders trafficking heroin and morphine, deny bail for dealers unless danger to others is ruled unlikely, and bar release of those awaiting sentence or during appeals.
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