Scott on Shakeup Reflects on Watergate and Policy
U.S. Senator Hugh Scott told a Somerset County audience that no elected officials were involved in Watergate and urged judgments to await legal guilt. He defended Nixon, criticized press coverage, and urged health and highway policy reforms while praising the Baltimore Sun and noting potential changes to elections laws and a federal electoral commission.
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Dick Cartwright
U.S
Hugh Scott
Senate
Somerset American
John Ehrlichman
H.R. Haldeman
John Dean
White House
Congress
Scott
Somerset County
County Health and Welfare Council
Seven Springs
Pennsylvania
Nixon
Daniel Ellsberg
Ellsberg
Whitehouse
Council
Federal Electoral Commission
Charles Percy Ril
House-Senate
Southern Alleghenies Planning and Development Commission
Washington
Patricia Stone
Somerset County Health and Welfare Council
John Reese
U N Security Council Opens Middle East Debate May 29
Council members agreed to start full scale debate on the Middle East May 29 and discuss a special committee to defuse the issue. A Soviet backed plan favors reviving talks among the Big Four and the 15 member council. an Egyptian resolution requests review of UN efforts since 1967.
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United Nations
N.Y
U.N. Security Council
Middle East
U.S
Council
Israel
Egypt
Jordan
Syria
Kurt Waldheim
Senate probes Watergate witnesses at Un17
Senate probes Watergate witnesses as hearings set to open on Nixon era events. Republicans express concern over possible impeachment while noting no current proof of Nixon involvement. Some lawmakers call for election law reform and broader probe beyond 1972.
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Washington
Senate
Nixon
Howard Baker
R-Tenn
Tennessee
Baker
House
John B. Anderson
R-Ill
House Republican Conference
William Brock
Anderson
Thomas Foley
D-Wash
Viet Cong Repeats Charge of U.S. Bombing in South Vietnam
Viet Cong accused American warplanes of renewed strikes in South Vietnam wounding 34 people including women and children. The ICCS received an official protest notes while the U.S. Embassy denied bombing claims and the FDA added Somerset County to pepper recall alerts linked to botulism.
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Saigon
Viet Cong
South Vietnam
International Commission of Control and Supervision
U.S
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Somerset County
Nancy’s
DiSan Marco
Mountaineer
ICCS
Joint Military Commission
Loc Ninh
Loc Thanh
United States
Republic of Vietnam
Daily American gains statewide honors for reporting in 1972
Somerset American earns state recognition from the Pennsylvania Society of Newspaper Editors for Howard Hall's news feature Ecologists Tour Place Where Nothing Lives about ecologists visiting Stony Creek. The piece placed second in 15 000 daily circulation category at a Keystone Press Awards banquet in Harrisburg.
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Somerset American
Pennsylvania Society of Newspaper Editors
Howard Hall
Stony Creek
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Mirror
State College
UMW
Keystone Press
Penn Harris Motor Inn
Harrisburg
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Truman
Bobby Baker
Lyndon Johnson
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Times
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Martin Siemon
Jean Enderline
Glenn Miller
Gunnar V. Jarring
Jarring
Moscow
Soviet Union
Britain
France
Wagon Train Association
Bakersville Fire Hall
Francis Wilson
Jim Scanlon
Bill Howard
Association
Irene Decker
Charlie Freidhoff
Wagon Train
South
Daily American
American
Hall
Maurice Goddard
District of Columbia
Canada
Bermuda
The
National Editorial Foundation
Munity
Dorothy Kantner
Pittsburgh Theta Sigma Phi
Pittsburgh
Dayton
Ohio
Ann Landers
Sscceees
Vscsede
Vsccseesteas
Scocencagneectoal
Sylvia Porter
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