Watergate figures linked to Dorothy Hunt death and Nixon support
The piece ties Dorothy Hunt, wife of ex White House aide E Howard Hunt Jr, to money passing to McCord amid Watergate. Hunt died in a December Chicago airliner crash with $10,000 on her. Barry Goldwater warns Republicans face 1974 electoral risk and weighs Nixon support while grand jury questions McCord and other witnesses in a brief session.
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Dorothy Hunt
White House
E. Howard Hunt Jr
McCord
Watergate
Farmer Key
Hanged man linked to smuggling case surfaces in flight death
FBI identified Dr. Paul Yu, electronics executive once tied to a smuggling conspiracy with Communist China, as the man found hanged in the men’s room of a Taiwan to Honolulu flight. Yu’s firm Ad Yu Electronics Laboratories faced Defense Dept. ties before bankruptcy in 1968. Police suspect arson in a Copenhagen transmitter fire that cut Danish TV for up to two weeks.
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UPC
Taiwan
Honolulu
Paul Yu
China
FBI
Trans World Airlines
Ad-Yu Electronics Laboratory Inc
Passaic, NJ
Defense Department
Dr. Yu
Axbridge families mourn after air crash claims many
In Axbridge and nearby Congresbury, 200 children lose mothers as a passenger plane crash unfolds. Relatives crowd Bristol airport awaiting news, with mixed updates on survivors and heartbreaking uncertainty for several families including the Hopkins and Fowler households.
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Axbridge
Bristol
Philip Ratt
Dennis Gill
U S Automakers Win Delay On Smog Device
Federal air regulator Ruckelshaus announced a phased nationwide use of catalytic converters, delaying 1975 compliance while California begins in 1976. Costs cited at 55 to 65 dollars, with broader national rollout planned. he backed a 4 percent NOx reduction by 1978 and signaled possible Clean Air Act tweaks. He faced criticism from Ralph Nader and conservation groups.
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Ruckelshaus
Detroit
Ford
Chrysler Corp
Chrysler Corporation
Congress
Ralph Nader
Kuckelshaus
White House
Nader
Tuckelshaus
Distaff mayor in Beverly Hills Distaff mayor in Beverly Hills
City council members chose Phyllis Seaton as mayor of Beverly Mills, the first woman in the post in the city’s history. Seaton, on the council for three years and wife of writer director George Seaton, was elected unanimously for a one year term.
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Associated Press
Phyllis Seaton
Beverly Mills
Wwoian
Seaton
George Seaton
Indictment Involving Millionaire Over Tax Evasion Case
The report details a high profile tax evasion case tied to a New York financier connected with the Fifth Avenue Coach Lines. It notes a guilty plea, a $22,400 fine, and a five year probation, plus earlier probation in 1971 for filing false statements. Cohn, Krock, and Muscat face other related charges and a past $2.7 million diversion allegation.
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Fifth Avenue Coach Ca
New York
Krock
Fifth Avenue Coach Lines
Fifth Avenue
New York City
Eventu
Cohn
Victor Muscat
Muscat
Snowe dies in Maine winter storm crash
Republican Rep. Peter T. Snowe of Auburn was killed in an automobile crash on the Maine Turnpike while a heavy winter storm blanketed northern New England. Police said he was headed home from Augusta, the state capital, when the accident occurred Tuesday evening amid piling snow.
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Augusta
Maine
UPI
Ellsberg defends actions in Pentagon Papers case
Ellsberg described his role copying the Pentagon Papers with Russo in 1949 and outlined aims to present them to Senator Fulbright to end the war. He expressed confidence jurors will understand why they copied the papers and expected acquittal on espionage, conspiracy, and theft charges.
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Ellsberg
Kennedy
Asst
Atty
David Nissen
Newwsmex
Pentagon
Leonard Boudin
Anthony Russo
Tony
Russo
Sen
A.W. Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Fulbright
Nixon Proposes Pension Reform Plan Amid Congress Moves
President Nixon outlined two bills to Congress in December 1971 to revamp pension laws. The plan would vest 50 percent of benefits at entry plus 10 percent per year until full vesting in five years, doubling private plan vesting to about 60 percent, with protections for those over 44 reaching 90 percent. It excludes new government programs and allows tax deductible retirement savings up to 1500 dollars or 20 percent of income, plus higher self employed deductions to 7500 or 15 percent.
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Congress
Nixon
Hesitation fatal in bank holdup
Rittenbure, a 30 year old civil engineer with the FAA at Los Angeles International Airport, was killed as four gunmen fled a bank robbery. A silent alarm triggered, a traffic crash four blocks away linked to the getaway car, and a fourth suspect remained sought after vanishing into a residential area after the accident.
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Mayd
TM. Willow Ave
Rittenbure
Compton
Terry Ebert
Federal Aviation Agency
Los Angeles International Airport
Ebert
Compton Boulevard
Chester Street
Fire break carved in Oakland Berkeley Hills by ecologists
Oakland officials with state ecology corpsmen cut a two mile long fire break through the Oakland and Berkeley Hills as eucalyptus trees were felled steadily on Tuesday. The action aims to halt advancing flames and protect hillside communities amid wildfire risk.
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State Ecology
Cal
Berkeley Hills
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