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...July 1972. An unstamped note was slipped into the mailbox at McCord's house in Rockville, Md. It was signed "Jack," and came from John Caulfield, a former White House staff assistant who had worked under John Ehrlichman, mainly as a liaison with law enforcement agencies. The note suggested three times at which McCord could go to a pay phone "on Route 355 near the Blue Fountain Inn" and expect a call from Caulfield. McCord went to the booth, got a call from a man with a "New York accent" who said: "Jack will want to talk with...
With all the indictments surfacing, the first note of real tragedy struck yesterday. Rep. William O. Mills (R-Md.) committed suicide a day after he denied receiving an unreported $25,000 campaign contribution from the Committee to Re-Elect the President...
Died. Alexander A. ("Sunny Jim") Vandegrift, 86, commander of the U.S. Marine Corps assault on Guadalcanal and Bougainville islands during World War II; after a long illness; in Bethesda, Md. A quiet, courtly Virginian, Vandegrift directed the first U.S. land offensive against the Japanese when he led the 1st Marine Division onto Guadalcanal in August 1942. For three months his outnumbered men held their ground through bitter jungle fighting before reinforcements arrived, and for his leadership Vandegrift was awarded the Navy Cross and the Congressional Medal of Honor. The first active four-star general in Marine history, he served four...
...women, and a third are blacks-two groups that union leaders have found difficult to organize or have ignored. This success has been achieved against fierce resistance from many government officials who insist that public workers have no right to strike. Some 120 road workers in Garrett County, Md., won recognition for their A.F.S.C.M.E. local only after striking the state highway department for 365 days, one of the longest public service strikes in U.S. history. Some 1,300 mostly black garbage men in Memphis got their local recognized in 1968 after a bitter 65-day walkout that indirectly precipitated...