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documents submitted to Sen Watergate com by ex-White House counsel J W Dean 3d show that members of Pres Nixon's White House staff made repeated unsuccessful attempts to get IRS to conduct 'pol actions and investigations'
White House says on June 27 that J W Dean 3d was 'mastermind' of Watergate cover-up and that former Atty Gen Mitchell, Dean's 'patron,' was responsible for intelligence gathering scheme that led to Watergate break-in; charges are contained in long White House interpretation of Dean's testimony before Sen Watergate com, prepared by White House special counsel J F Buzhardt; Sen D K Inouye reads what is widely considered to be White House's counterattack into record, saying it would be fair to use it to test Dean's believability and to give Pres 'his day in ct'; document strongly suggests that Dean became active participant in Watergate cover-up to protect Mitchell, his former employer at Justice Dept; refers to meetings Dean had with Mitchell and others after Watergate burglary and attributes to them the planning for cover-up activities; says it was Dean, 'purportedly acting on behalf of Mitchell,' who proposed raising hush money for Watergate defendants; says Dean and Mitchell prepared for a witness at Jan Watergate trial to commit perjury; says Mitchell sponsored Dean for his job at White House; during reading of White House document Dean interrupts frequently to dispute its rationale or facts; White House counterattack says although it would have been embarrassing to Pres if true facts about Watergate became known right after June 17 break-in, Nixon, 'an immensely popular Pres,' could have weathered pol embarrassment if only he had been fully informed at that time; says because of Dean's cover-up, pol problem now has been 'magnified 1,000-fold' because truth is coming to light belatedly and because of insinuations that White House was party to cover-up; says 'the added consequences were J Dean's doing'; White House document follows 3 hrs of questioning of Dean by Repub Sen Gurney, considered a friend of White House; illus of Dean, his wife, spectators and com members
US Govt, in effort to prevent outright shortage of feed for cattle, hogs and poultry, imposes on June 27 export controls on soybeans and cottonseed and their products; Agr Sec Butz says that if move succeeds in bringing down feed prices, there will be less need to raise recently imposed price ceilings on meat products
former White House counsel J W Dean, in testimony to Sen Watergate com, says White House lists of political enemies included names of prominent academicians
Earl Browder, who led the Communist party of the United States as general secretary from 1930 to 1946, its years of greatest influence, died yesterday at 82. Page 50.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 27, 1973, covering June 28, 1973.
George Harrison
Paul McCartney And Wings
Paul Simon
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
1973Adrián Annus, Hungarian hammer thrower[†]
Adrián Zsolt Annus is a Hungarian hammer thrower, who was stripped of his gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens for a doping violation in a highly publicized scandal. The disqualification received heightened attention, as it came on the heels of several drug scandals at the Athens Games and came as Annus' teammate, discus thrower Róbert Fazekas was also stripped of his Olympic title for a doping violation. The incident also received attention, as Annus refused for several months to return his gold medal, relenting only after the International Olympic Committee put pressure on the Hungarian Olympic Committee and threatened sanctions.
1973Corey Koskie, Canadian baseball player[†]
Cordel Leonard "Corey" Koskie is a Canadian former professional baseball third baseman, who played in Major League Baseball for the Minnesota Twins, Toronto Blue Jays, and Milwaukee Brewers. On February 4, 2015, Koskie was elected to the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.
1973Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.[†]
The Northern Ireland Assembly was a legislative assembly set up by the Government of the United Kingdom on 3 May 1973 to restore devolved government to Northern Ireland with the power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive made up of unionists and nationalists. It was dissolved in March 1975.
In 1973, the world population was approximately 3,920,805,042 people[†]