Nixon tapes stance may backfire on legality warns aide
Senate Watergate committee chief counsel Samuel Cash said Nixon risks weakening his claim that White House tapes are confidential presidential papers after Haldeman listened to a tape as a private citizen. Haldeman testified he copied notes and briefed Nixon on the Sept. 15 1972 meeting with Nixon and Dean.
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William Dicke Washington
Nixon
White House
Senate Watergate Committee
H. R. Haldeman
Samuel Cash
Haldeman
Secret Service
Committee
Watergate
Archibald Cox
Gerald L. Warren
Cox
John W. Dean III
Dean
Senate Watergate
Mitchell
Daniel Ellsberg
Antiwar activists face conspiracy trial over 1972 convention
Eight defendants from Vietnam Veterans Against the War and a sympathizer stand trial in Gainesville on conspiracy charges tied to disrupting the 1972 Republican National Convention in Miami Beach. Security is tight with 25 federal marshals, gatekeepers and a limited pool of five journalists allowed in court.
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Gainesville
Fla
Tiami Beach
U.S. District Court
Winston Arnow
General Services Administration
U.S
Arnow
Miami
Dan Paul
Miami Herald
New York Times-owned
Florida
Reporters Committee For the Freedom of the Press
Delta jet crashes at Logan Airport in fog
A Delta Airlines DC9 with 89 aboard crashed on a runway at Logan International Airport in heavy fog. Early reports pegged fatalities at as many as 85 with at least one survivor taken to Massachusetts General Hospital as debris litters the runway and water.
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Delta Airlines
Logan International
Boston Harbor
Massachusetts General Hospital
Haldeman calls White House tapes counterfeit evidence
Senate Watergate chair labeled Haldeman testimony counterfeit and said tapes remain best evidence while Nixon blocks subpoenas. Haldeman acknowledged approving a 90 000 campaign budget for black projects but said he did not know their exact use.
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Michael Putzel Washington
Senate Watergate Committee
H. R. Haldeman
White House
Sam J. Ervin Jr
D-N.c
Haldeman
Ervin
Howard H. Baker Jr
R-Tenn
Nixon
Watergate
Archibald Cox
John W. Dean Iit
Charles W. Colson
Campaign reform bill stalls in House after Senate pass
Senate approves a broad campaign finance bill 82 to 8 to curb money influence and create an enforcement agency. The House votes 237 to 156 to table a pay raise bill, showing little interest in the Senate finance measure which some senators say is too restrictive to pass in the House.
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John Chadwick Washington
House
Senate
Nixon orders secrecy on Cambodia bombing revealed
Gen. Earle Wheeler testified before the Senate that President Nixon ordered maximum security on Cambodia raids in 1969 and that dual reporting systems hid true targets. Wheeler cited 3,630 B52 sorties into Cambodia and 149 sorties in Northern Laos as part of the covert operations. He noted Sihanouk knew of the raids and that several lawmakers were informed.
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Nixon
U.S
Cambodia
Earle G. Wheeler
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Laos
Wheeler
Senate Armed Services Committee
Melvin R
Laird
South Vietnam
Pentagon
Air Force
Hal Knight
Vietnam
Norodom Sihanouk
Congress
Henry A. Kissinger
National Security
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
Everett Dirksen
R-Ill
Rep. L. Mendel Rivers
D-S.c
John C. Stennis
Dmiss
Gerald R. Ford
R-Mich
Leslie Arends
R-Ii
Illinois Democratic Fund aims to erase Walker campaign deficit
Gov Daniel Walker's adviser announced formation of the Illinois Democratic Fund to wipe out about 500000 in campaign debt. The group seeks a statewide finance arm for Democrats, not a Daley power struggle, with Geocaris as organizer for up to a year.
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Daniel Walker
Walker
Angelos Geocaris
Democratic Party
United Republican Fund
Illinois
Geocaris
Illinois Democratic Fund
Richard J. Daley
Cook County
Daley
Skylab 2 crew resumes chores after illness delay
Skylab 2 astronauts Alan Bean Owen Garriott and Jack Lousma, recovering from motion sickness, begin housekeeping tasks postponed by illness. A space walk is postponed to Saturday giving the crew a rest day Friday while weather stays partly cloudy with near normal highs through the week.
SIU-C sex discrimination hearing attracts crowd
A public FEPC hearing at Carbondale on the SIU-C sex discrimination case involving Carolyn Weiss drew witnesses spectators and university officials. Arnold Charnin for Weiss and John Huffman for SIUC led opening arguments as testimony was to begin with possible continuation tomorrow.
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Dave Butler
Southern Illinoisan
Southern Illinois University At Carbondale
Siu-C
Universsity
Illinois Fair Employment Practices Commission
IFEPC
Carolyn Weiss
Huffman
Robert Artz
John Baker
Jane Crichton
Ronald Hanson
Hanson
Utah
Carbondale
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