EPA plan imposes smog controls amid traffic limits
The EPA proposes traffic restrictions across New York and other metros, including gasoline sales ceilings at 1972–73 levels, parking bans, and two-stroke motorcycle limits starting 1974 77. Cities like Boston Philadelphia and Houston would add parking limits and bus lanes with inspections and retrofitting.
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EPA
Los Angeles
New Jersey
Rochester
Boston
Logan International Airport
Philadelphia
Mereer County
Cincinnati
Pittsburgh
Texas
Houston
San Antonio
Dallas
Nixon plea for system highlights world peace and economy
President Nixon urged a cooperative system amid rivalries, citing Erksen's example to shape America’s global role. He anticipated Brezhnev’s visit and a summit with the Soviet Union to boost agreements while defending a 50 day price freeze to avoid an economic skid and establish wage price controls to end the controlled economy.
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Nixon
Erksen
America
Leonid Brezhnev
Soviet Union
Brezhnev
Paris Dealer Returns Stolen Art from 1972 Heist
An unnamed Paris art dealer agreed to return 15 paintings, bought for over 450000, after discovering they were stolen from French industrialist Albert Lespinasse’s home in April 1972. The set includes Renoir, Sisley, Leger, Rouault, Varinincks, Van Dongen and Boudins, linked to a wider 31‑work theft. Police traced the sale to Marc Francelet, who claimed a middleman supplied the works. Authorities prepared a formal handover to the owner.
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Paris
Renoirs
Sisley
Leger
Rouault
Viamincks
van Dongen
Boudins
Albert Lespinasse
Marc Francelet
Francelet
Subpoena Dems fund records for five candidates
Washington The Senate Watergate committee subpoenas campaign finance records for five 1972 Democratic candidates. Chairman Sam Ervin signed the order at the urging of two Republicans, seeking contributions and expenditures data on McGovern Muskie Humphrey Jackson and Wallace.
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Washington
Senate Watergate Committee
Sam J. Ervin
D-N.c
Howard H. Baker Jr
Tennessee
Edward J. Gurney
Florida
George McGovern
South Dakota
Edmund
Muskie
Maine
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Henry M. Jackson
Gov
George C. Wallace
Alabama
Rabies Quarantine Expands In Long Beach Area
Long Beach officials ordered a wide quarantine of all domestic animals after a kitten died suspected of rabies. Two women exposed to the cat began Pasteur treatment while 30 health workers canvassed homes near the Virginia Country Club area. The area is bounded by the LA River, Spring Street, Atlantic Avenue, and rail lines, with stray impoundment and veterinary alerts issued.
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Long Beach
Kitker
I. D. Litwack
Litwack
Los Angeles
Spring Street
Virginia Country Club
Atlantic Avenue
California
Liddy schemed Watergate plan tied to Nixon ignorance claim
Magruder and Mitchell described meetings in 1972 where G Gordon Liddy presented abduction, surveillance and political espionage ideas. Plans included kidnapping radical leaders, hiring call girls, renting a yacht to extract information, but were vetoed and later scaled back. Magruder testified Mitchell approved a trimmed version, budget disputes followed, while lawyers said Mitchell aimed to tell his story.
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Nixon
G. Gordon Liddy
Liddy
Mitchell
Magruder
Viddy
Mexico
Miami Beach
Charles Colson
White House
Key Biscayne
Frederick C. Larue
New York chase ends when crowd stops fleeing cab
A hundred New Yorkers chased three purse snatchers, surrounded the cab they fled in, and held it until police arrived. Patrolman Peter Robinson recalled the extraordinary scene as neighbors refused to look away after a young woman was assaulted, likening it to the Kitty Genovese case. In Sacramento, a Senate committee shelved five no fault auto insurance bills, fearing defeat, while Magruder described campaign discussions amid the Watergate hearings and questioned who said what about the plot.
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New York
UPI
Peter Robinson
Kitty Genoveses
Miss Genovese
Queens
Genovese
Sacramento
Senate
Senate Judiciary Committee
Tipsy Drivers May Get Ride Home Not to Jail
New Mexico enforcers may give moderately drunk drivers a ride home instead of jail under the Detoxification Act effective today. Officers can take an intoxicated person to the nearest health center for treatment or, if unsafe or no center exists, detain them up to 12 hours. Offenders pay transportation and care costs. admissions are not arrests or criminal records.
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Santa FE
New Mexico
Cease-fire near in Cambodia amid congressional actions
The United States faces two competing measures to end bombing in Indochina as Cambodia peace talks hinge on a cease-fire. Senate and House senators debate funding and restrictions while Kissinger warns removal of bombing would curb negotiations. Cambodia’s ambassador to Washington defends continued bombing as vital.
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Senate
State Department
North
South
Vietnam
Laos
Cambodia
House
Indochina
Kissinger
U.S
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
Scott
North Vietnam
Washington
Um Sim
Northeastern U S Hit by Widespread Quake Tremor
A quake rattled six New England states and New York with windows, walls, and furniture affected. Spokesmen placed the center near the Montreal area along the Laurentian Fault while Weston authorities cautioned that a fault line follow up was not yet confirmed. In New York Albany and Colebrook residents reported heavy shaking and furniture movement. Separately a 5.8 quake near Adak Alaska was felt at the naval base with no damage reported.
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Ithaca
Montreal
St. Lawrence River
Weston
New England
New York
Colebrook
W.H
Edgar Dyer
Albany
Palmer
Alaska
Adak
U.S. Naval Base
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Robert Marcian
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Kleindienst
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