House Demos shift seniority rules in caucus vote
Washington Democrats overhauled the seniority system, authorizing an automatic caucus vote to challenge committee chairmen. While initial tests showed re-elections for Poage and Mahon, leaders warned stronger challenges may follow to nine other chairmen. The reform passed amid protests from opponents, including calls for open ballots.
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House Appropriations Committee
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Banking and Currency Committee
Martha Griffiths
Michigan
Mittee
Holifield
Democratic Reform Committee
Julia Butler Hansen
Washington
Hansen
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Top brass valets cost 13 million to taxpayers
Senator William Proxmire cites a GAO study showing 1 722 aides attached to generals and admirals at an annual cost of 13 million. The report highlights racial patterns in aide assignments, noting 98 percent of Navy aides are Filipino and blacks predominate Marine Corps aides, with varying shares in other services. Proxmire calls for clearer definitions and limits, while Rep. Hamilton exposes transportation for officers in the Washington area and at Bolling AFB, with dozens driven daily by limousine.
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Lee Hamilton
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Potomac River
Vets jobless rate drops below same-age non-vets
The 1972 unemployment rate for Vietnam veterans fell to 5.5 percent, down from 4.1 percent the prior year, with overall veteran rates for ages 20 to 29 averaging 7.3 percent for 1972. The decline followed economic gains, targeted programs, and fewer servicemen leaving the armed forces.
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Gas shortage warned for Southwest by 1979
Travis Petty of El Paso Natural Gas Co warned before the Arizona Corporation Commission that natural gas supplies in the Southwest will fall short of demand by 1979. He stated that by that year Southern California Arizona and New Mexico will require about 1 billion cubic feet daily, while El Paso could supply only 2.3 billion cubic feet without new sources.
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White House TV attack sparks FCC clash over bias
Federal Communications Commissioner Nicholas Sohnton said the White House aims to purge unfavorable coverage from radio and television by pressuring broadcasters. Johnson noted the administration, via policy director Clay Whitehead, seeks a five year renewal deal in exchange for cracking down on news and public affairs content from networks like CBS.
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CBS
Witness testifies he deemed Watergate logs legal
Ex PBS agent Alfred Baldwin II, granted immunity, testified he believed his political espionage work for Nixon campaign was legal. He could not name the Nixon official who received logs of conversations from tapped Democratic phones as Judge Sirica pressed for details in the Watergate case.
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Watergate Complex
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U.S
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Berard Barker
Frank Sturgis
Virgilio Gonzalez
Eugenio Martinez
Gerald Alch
Federal Communications Commission
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Sirica
FBI
Measure seeks mandatory death penalty for all first degree murders
California freshman Republican Mike Antonovich proposed AB149 requiring the death penalty for every first degree murder. He argues it could deter premeditated killings like the Manson and Sirhan cases and notes Prop 17 voters approved restoring capital punishment. Critics say the ACLU controls the Assembly committee overseeing the bill.
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Los Angeles
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Sirhan
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Robert ¥. Kennedy
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Assembly Criminal Justice Committee
ACLU
Supreme Court weighs California profit sharing rule in Merrill case
The Supreme Court will decide if a California court can rule on Merrill Lynch profit sharing. David Ware, a former employee, challenged a provision that fired vested interests when employees quit for competitors. Merrill claims New York law governs, arguing California law would violate due process, and seeks arbitration per NYSE rules.
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Probe of M D bombing roles
Sen Harold Hughes of Iowa asks for probe into claims that Air Force doctors flew combat sorties over Indochina. He cites reports from a physician visitor and a colleague’s letter alleging violations of military regulations and the Hippocratic Oath and asks Defense Secretary Melvin Laird to investigate.
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