Nixon lawyers win six day extension in Watergate subpoena fight
U S District Judge Sirica gave Nixon’s lawyers six more days to fight a sweeping Watergate subpoena for 64 presidential conversations and related tapes. A May 8 hearing was set on the White House bid to quash the subpoena as executive privilege. The move comes after Nixon surrendered 1308 pages of transcript to the House Judiciary Committee.
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Enrollment Drop Noted in New Mexico Schools Hearing
Public School Finance chief Harry Wågalter cites a statewide 1000 pupil decline for next year as Roswell Independent School District starts a budget hearing at Goddard High. The session covers substitute teacher pay, Title I funding uncertainty, and proposed bond plans amid questions from state legislators and local officials.
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Santa Fe
New Mexico
Roswell Independent School District
Richard Johnson
Legislative School Study Committee
Goddard High School
Tracy Huber
Harry Wagakter
LSSC
Robert K. Maxwell
Roswell
Maxwell
Roger L. Luginbill
Roswell Independent School
Luginbill
Wugalter
R. E. Thompson
D-Chaves
Raymond Mitcham
Petersen defends Watergate probe amid tape controversy
Assistant Attorney General Henry E. Petersen rejects criticism amid White House edited transcripts. He asserts he guided Nixon and advised on handling aides tied to the scandal while declaring frustration at reporters. In New Mexico, the Supreme Court disqualifies James B. Kelly as a Democratic candidate for Bernalillo County magistrate.
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New Mexico
Three Dead In Santa Fe Area Plane Crash
The Civil Air Patrol reported three men died when a rented Cessna 182 crashed on Rowe Mesa about 20 miles southeast of Santa Fe after departing Portales en route to Santa Fe. FAA identified pilot Mike Alexander of Santa Fe. two passengers unnamed. Severe thunderstorms accompanied the search by CAP units from Santa Fe, Los Alamos and Albuquerque. The wreckage was found near the Portales Santa Fe corridor. Post Aviation of Santa Fe owned the aircraft.
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Experts to present Watergate tape gap report to Sirica
Two panel members who studied the 18 and a half minute gap in a Nixon White House tape will report to U S District Judge John J Sirica Saturday in his chambers. The panel's January finding cited erasing and rerecording but kept whether it was deliberate undecided.
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Leon Jaworski
Nixon
Rose Mary Woods
Richard Bolt
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sirica
Picketing by Chicano Welfare Rights over Lake Arthur custody case
About 20 members picketed the New Mexico Health and Social Services Department in Roswell over seven children removed from a Lake Arthur home. Margarita Jaramillo said the group seeks access to the mother and calls for welfare help, housing, and jobs as the case heads to Children’s Court before Judge Paul Snead.
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Second St
Welfare Department
Lake Arthur
Chaves County
Margarita Jaramillo
Roswell
Children’s Court
Paul Snead
Morris Stagner
Stagner
Nixon to Speak in Phoenix as Arizona GOP Rolls Out Welcome
President Nixon will address a 13,000 seat Veterans Memorial Coliseum crowd in Phoenix with Sen. Barry Goldwater as MC and Gov. Jack Williams among speakers. Rep Morris Udall will deliver the Democratic response after the address. Harry Rosenzweig will skip the event amid other GOP leaders, while a silent protest is planned in a corner of the parking lot. Democrats from western states will watch by television during the event.
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SEC charges Penn Central and officers in large fraud case
The SEC accuses Penn Central Transportation Co and holding company Penn Central Co along with chief executive Stuart T. Saunders and former CFO David C. Bevan of concealing railroad losses and deceiving stockholders. They allegedly diverted 4 million to Liechtenstein accounts. court action seeks return of funds.
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Penn Central Transportation Co
Penn Central Railroad
Penn Central Co
Bevan, Gladwyn
Pax
Stuart T. Saunders
Ardmore
Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co
Couple Kidnapped Near Milan In Cross-State Search
State and local police hunted the Laguna area for two armed men who abducted Edward Lundquist 24 and Susan Lundquist 18 from the Liberty Motel in Milan New Mexico. The couple had moved from El Paso Texas recently and were held after registering at the motel. Lundquist said the men tied him up and left his wife in their car near Interstate 40. The robbery netted about 262 dollars. Police pursued a 1967 light blue MG with Texas plates. The manhunt involved Milan police New Mexico Rangers and a state police air unit.
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