News stories from Sunday June 23, 1974
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Leaders of the nation's mayors, who are meeting in San Diego, rejected three Watergate-related resolutions to prevent a fight they believed would have been bitter and divisive. Led by Mayor Kenneth Gibson of Newark, a Democrat, and Mayor Ralph Perk of Cleveland, a Republican, the resolutions committee of the United States Conference of Mayors tabled the resolutions, which would have supported laws proposing to curb executive privilege and implied presidential powers, to require public financing of election campaigns, and to establish an election finance reporting system. [New York Times]
- Senators Edward Kennedy and Jacob Javits made public confidential documents of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare that warned the administration that its policies could lead to serious shortages of doctors and other key professionals in the next 10 years.
The American Medical Association began its 123nd annual convention in Chicago with its leadership hoping to prevent a split in the medical profession over the issue of peer review, under which physicians examine the professional methods of colleagues.
[New York Times] - A spectacular rocket barrage by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is scheduled to start tomorrow above the East Coast, weather permitting, and will last for 24 hours beginning at 12:50 P.M. Fifty-four rockets will be fired from Wallops Island on the Virginia coast, and six will release chemicals that should make brilliant trails in the night sky, visible from Boston to Florida and as far inland as the Middle West. [New York Times]
- Secretary of State Kissinger went alone to a large wedding party given for him and his wife, the former Nancy Maginnes, by Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller at Pocantico Hills, the Rockefeller family estate in North Tarrytown, N.Y. His wife, whom he married nearly three months ago, is recuperating from a gastric ulcer at Bethesda Naval Hospital. [New York Times]
- The unbroken record of victories by Socialist candidates In Austrian presidential elections since World War II was maintained with the election of Rudolf Kirchschlager, a lawyer and diplomat. Mr. Kirchschlager, who has been his country's Foreign Minister since 1970, succeeds Franz Jonas, who died April 24. He is not a member of a political party but was the personal choice of Chancellor Bruno Kreisky as the nominee of the Socialist party. [New York Times]
- Cambodia has become a paradise for food profiteers. Merchants brand new to the food business are reportedly making a $10,000-a-day profit by flying scarce staples from Cambodia's agricultural areas over insurgent-held territory into Phnom Penh, the capital, where many families spend their entire incomes to feed themselves. [New York Times]
- High administration officials said that Secretary of State Kissinger made no secret arrangements with Soviet leaders about the missile limitation agreement of 1972, but that he also did not inform Congress of several aspects of it that may have led to confusion over the agreements. The officials, giving their version of the controversy, said that it evolved from a misunderstanding over what appeared to be an ambiguity in one of the protocols to the agreement and from a "prediction" Mr. Kissinger had made about the number of United States missile launchers aboard submarines. [New York Times]