White House faces 18 minute Watergate tape gap court test
Aides fear discrepancies in the Nixon era tape record and the 18 minute gap that may erase conversation. Federal hearings begin with Buzhardt and Sirica over whether the tone was accidental or intentional and if obstruction or contempt is involved.
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White House
Nixon
U.S
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J. Fred Buzhardt
Sirica
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Buzhardt
Richard Ben-Veniste
Archibald Cox
Cox
Proxmire asks Kissinger to reveal rationale for Mideast alert
Sen. William Proxmire demands that Secretary Kissinger honor a pledge to disclose the reasons for the U. S. military alert during the Middle East crisis. Kissinger had said revealing the facts would serve no purpose after saying he would provide them. The alert involved 2.3 million personnel and followed Soviet threats, later canceled with some units remaining on alert.
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Nixon
Soviet Union
Mideast
U. S
Proxmire
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Pioneer 10 nears Jupiter bow shock in solar wind clash
Spacecraft Pioneer 10 speeds toward Jupiter at 25 000 mph and may encounter a bow shock within six days. Scientists warn early contact could expose the $100 million craft to the intense radiation belt far stronger than Earth's Van Allen belts, risking severe damage en route to Dec 3 arrival.
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Calif
UPI
Jupiter
Pioneer
Dec. 3
Earth
van Allen
Sick leave transfer blocked by park district ruling
Oakland based East Bay Regional Park District attorney Tom Hyde says 70 employees cannot legally donate their sick leave to Sylvain H. Mahler a gardener with a malignant neck tumor and one year to live. Mahler had used most of his own leave and would return to work only as long as possible. The article also notes Joanna Winship of Cambridge as Massachusetts first school teacher in the late 1600s.
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Calif
UPI
Tom Hyde
East Bay Regional Park
Sylvain H. Mahler
Mahler
Tornado hits Eminence Missouri. three killed in mobile home
A tornado struck Eminence in the Missouri Ozarks early Saturday, destroying a mobile home and killing three people from the Nichols family. About 30 homes were damaged and six destroyed. an 8-year-old girl survived. The twister left a 100-foot by three-block path and debris scattered across the area.
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Eminence
UPI
Missouri Ozarks
Lucille Nichols
Henry Nichols
Local Tornado Damages Home As Grandchild Injured
Darlene Nichols, grandchild of Mrs. Nichols, was carried 50 feet and landed in the Chilton yard before being rushed to a Springfield hospital in serious condition. About 100 yards west of the mobile home site, Mrs. William Mooney watched plastic sheeting go up as a one story frame house lost its roof and windows shattered. Utility crews worked to repair tangled lines and fallen trees while telephone service remained out for hours.
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Darlene Nichols
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