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1974: A brown leather briefcase containing a grand jury’s basis for wanting to name President Richard Nixon an unindicted co-conspirator in the Watergate cover-up will be opened for the public by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee.

The committee voted to release 7,200 pages of impeachment evidence to the public, but the expletives deleted from the edited version of Nixon’s Watergate conservations may still stay out.

The briefcase, which contains the testimony which led to the grand jury to its 19-0 vote, was driven to the committee in mid-March after Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski advised the panel they could not name a president in office in an indictment.

— Teresa Moulds and Helen Gordon, president and treasurer of the Democratic Women of New Mexico, were guest speakers at a luncheon at Del’s Restaurant by the county’s chapter.

— New Mexico State Police confiscated 500 pounds of marijuana with a street value of $250,000 after a traffic stop west of Tucumcari on Interstate 40. Officers pulled over a 1966 Chevrolet with Illinois license plates. The suspect was scheduled to be arraigned.

— The American Legion of New Mexico was scheduled to hold its 55th annual convention at the Tucumcari Elks Lodge, including its election and installation of officers for 1974-75.

— The Odeon Theatre was showing the newest John Wayne movie, “McQ.”