GOP Governors Face 1974 Test Amid Watergate Fallout
GOP governors confront 1974 contests as a gauge of national mood. Democrats back a unified campaign committee led by Governor Jimmy Carter, while Republicans face fund raising and weaker party leverage. The Watergate scandal threatens GOP governorships and state-house majorities. Patchogue apartment complex opens opposite Mitchell’s boyhood home, named Watergate Apartments.
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Skylab 1 Astronauts Set for 28 Day Mission
Skylab program moves toward a new era as Charles Conrad Jr. Joseph Kerwin and Paul Weitz prepare to fly from Houston to Patrick Air Force Base to launch aboard Saturn 5 and Saturn 1B rockets. They will live aboard the space station for four weeks studying long term weightlessness and human adaptation. Skylab 2 and Skylab 3 crews follow in August and November.
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Hearing on Drug Enforcement Agency after two mistook raids
Washington AP reports Senator Charles Percy R Illinois will chair a subcommittee hearing in Chicago on May 18 to review federal drug law enforcement and Nixon proposed consolidation into a single Drug Enforcement Administration. The session will also examine two erroneous April 23 raids on Collinsville residents Herbert Giglotto and Donald Askew.
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No swap allowed Gray says land must go for park
Representative Gray declares the 4 percent acres given to Carbondale for a public park must be used as a park. He rejects a proposed land swap, noting the deed requires park use or title reverts to federal disposal.
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