Derge tours SIU Carbondale School of Technical Careers
SIU president David R. Derge and academic vice president Keith Leasure toured the School of Technical Careers in Carbondale, meeting faculty and viewing converted World War II barracks. The visit marked Derge’s first full campus tour and plans for further segments of the university were discussed amid budget-cut delays.
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Arden Pratt
School of Technical Careers
Southern Illinois University At Carbondale
Keith Leasure
David R. Derge
SIUC
Leasure
Derge
Careers School
Vocational Technical Institute
Carterville
Carbondale
Pratt
Magruder pleads guilty to conspiracy in Watergate case
Jeb Stuart Magruder, a former Senate Watergate witness, pleaded guilty in U S District Court to conspiracy to wiretap obstruct justice and defraud the United States. He waived grand jury presentment and agreed to be a government witness in future Watergate trials.
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Washington
Jeb Stuart Magruder
Senate Watergate Committee
Federal Prosecutors
Magruder
U.S. District Court
Grand Jury
Special
United States
Spectacular Kohoutek comet to light night sky
A holiday comet named Kohoutek disovered by Dr. Lubos Kohoutek in West Germany will be visible worldwide from mid November to late January. It will pass within 13 million miles of the sun, travel at 250000 miles per hour, and may outshine Halley asObservers including Skylab 3 plan studies as it nears perihelion.
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New York
Jupiter
Mars
Kohoutek
Lubos Kohoutek
Hamburg Observatory
Bergedorf
West Germany
AG charges four firms of polluting
The attorney general’s office charged four northern Illinois businesses with air pollution and a fifth with water pollution in suits filed before the state Pollution Control Board. Chrysler Corp Belvidere Chippewa Paper Joliet Becker’s Chicken Monce Howell Co St. Charles faces penalties up to 10000 per violation and 1000 per day.
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Chicago
State Pollution Control Board
Chrysler Corp
Belvidere
Chippewa Paper Co
Joliet
Becker's Chicken and Eye Farm
Monce
Howell Co
St. Charles
Atty
William J. Scott
Admiral Radford, JCS Chairman, Dies at 77
Admiral Arthur W. Radford, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, died at 77 from cancer at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda. A World War II naval hero and pivotal in unification debates, Radford opposed the B36 program and later backed Navy carriers. Funeral plans are incomplete.
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Washington
Arthur W. Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Eisenhower
Pentagon
Radford
National Naval Medical Center
Bethesda
Sedde
Annapolis
Tarawa
Navy
Mao Faces Memory Blackouts in Power Struggle
AP reports Mao Tse-tung, 79, is reportedly suffering memory lapses and is under doctor care as radical factions led by Chiang Chingkai challenge moderates for control of the forthcoming Central Committee and Politburo at the 10th Congress, shaping future Chinese policy and reforms.
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Weshington
U.S
Mao Tse-tung
Chou En-tai
Communist Party
Mao
Chiang Ching
Central Committee
Polit ‘Suro
Chinese Communist Party
Goldwater Attacks Liberals Over Watergate Use
Sen. Barry Goldwater told the Young Americans for Freedom convention that liberals are using Watergate to tarnish the 1972 Nixon administration and conservative policies. He argued the scandal is being wielded to discredit government and policy while clarifying he does not condone the misdeeds.
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Washington
Barry Goldwater
Goldwater
Young Americans For Freedom
Nixon to tour Europe in November to patch Atlantic cracks
President Nixon plans a November European trip lasting about ten days to seal a draft declaration of principles aimed at repairing cracks in the Atlantic alliance. Kissinger may address a Brussels NATO event and could explain the U.S. draft to European counterparts as White House officials confirm the trip despite Watergate concerns.
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Gaylord Shaw
Washington
Nixon
Europe
Atlantic Alliance
White House
Henry Kissinger
Kissinger
Belgium
NATO Association
Brussels
White Horse
U.S
Secret Service agent resigns over spying tale report
James C. Bolton Jr., a Secret Service agent, reportedly disclosed political intelligence on 1972 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. George McGovern. The agency says Bolton resigned after an extensive investigation into claims he passed information to the White House via his father, James C. Bolton Sr.
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Washington
James C. Bolton Jr
Secret Service
George McGovern
Bolton
White House
James C. "Bolton Sr
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