13 Aug 1973
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Newspaper
Somerset Daily American
Location
Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1973
Page
1
U S warplanes pounded Phnom Penh from dawn to dusk as Cambodian forces faced a new northward push along Highways 6 and 7. Skoun besieged, government troops abandoned positions while Lon Nol’s leadership warned against outside intervention.
Officials acknowledge uncertainty as prices rise in foods and staples. The article notes egg prices up about 33 percent since July and pork costs increasing, while experts from the Cost of Living Council urge patience as price ceilings and phased controls stretch over two years.
Raging floods sweep large areas from Kashmir to Assam in India and Bangladesh. Rivers rising from the Himalayas cause deaths and widespread destruction of crops and villages as towns face inundation.
India faces flooding as heavy rains melt snow. In Bangladesh more than a million people are affected across Comilla Faridpur Pabna and Mymensingh with deaths in Faridpur. In Bihar a boat sank on the Ganges near Patna with 35 drownings.
A Watergate investigator and the nation brace for further probes as the Senate committee moves into new phases, subpoenas are issued for Nixon tapes and Dean conversations, and a forthcoming White House statement looms amid a constitutional power clash.
Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox goes to court to argue no man is above the law. He will file a brief to Judge John J. Sirica at 10 a.m. EDT demanding Nixon turn over nine presidential conversation tapes to the Watergate grand jury.
As beef costs spike, diners seek alternatives like whinny wedges made from horsemeat and ragout of rabbit with shark steak sandwiches. Shark, rabbit, buffalo and horse join soybean burgers in rising exotic menus across the country.
A Rockwood boy Jesse C Engelke aged year old and a Johnstown woman Claudia R Repp were injured in weekend crashes blamed on slick roads. Engelke endured a satisfactory condition after a motorcycle accident on Route 603 two miles west of Rockwood. Repp sustained minor injuries in a collision with a guard rail at Routes 600L and New 219 and was not hospitalized. Three other county accidents reported with no injuries.
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