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NEW YORK Frank W. McGee, the
host of NBC-TV's Today Show and a
national broadcast newsman known for his
coverage of space shots and political
conventions, died Wednesday from
complications of bone cancer he had
suffered for several months. He was 52.
McGee continued to broadcast until
Thursday, although friends described him as
having been very weak and in great pain. He
entered Columbia Presbyterian Hospital
Friday.
The cause of death was attributed to
pneumonia, described . as a direct
complication of multiple myeloman, a rare
form of bone cancer. McGee had been
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undergoing chemical and radiation therapy
for the disease.
McGee, a native of Monroe, La., joined
the network in 1957, assigned first as a
Washington correspondent specializing in
space and politics. Two years later he was
transferred to New York.
He hosted the 11th Hour News and The
Frank McGee Report before succeeding
Hugh Downs on the Today Show in 1971.
As a newsman, McGee broadcast some
450 instant news specials and during the 1960
presidential campaign moderated the second
"Great Debate between President John F.
Kennedy and then Vice President Richard
M. Nixon.
Loss shakes GOP
SAGINAW. Mich. The latest
Democratic victory in usually safe
Republican territory sent shock waves
through GOP ranks Wednesday and spurred
new Democratic attacks on President
Nixon.
The latest in a series of post-Watergate
setbacks for Republicans came Tuesday
night in Michigan's 8th Congressional
District, where J. Bob Traxler scored a solid
victory in an area that has elected only one
other Democrat to Congress in this century.
Final unofficial figures gave Traxler
59,918 votes in the seven-county district,
nearly 3,000 more than the 56,898 collected
by James M. Sparling Jr., a respected
Republican making his first race.
Traxler called the result a vote of no
confidence in Nixon.
The stakes for Nixon were high since he
personally and enthusiastically campaigned
in the district just six days before the
election, his first such political foray since
Watergate.
Nixon did not comment immediately on
Traxler's victory, but other GOP leaders
from Vice President Gerald R. Ford on
down expressed dismay, disappointment
and concern.
Ford, whose own vacated safe seat fell
earlier this year to a Democrat, said
Traxler's election was a bad omen and
warned that a continued Democratic sweep
could lead to a "legislative dictatorship.
Traxler echoed earlier Democratic
winners by calling the result a demonstration
that voters are fed up with unemployment,
inflation, shortages and, above all,
Watergate!
"If I was a Republican" he said, "I would
not want the Nixon albatross around my
neck in November.
The loss was the fourth for the GOP in five
special House elections this year and was
especially painful since Nixon took a
personal and direct role in hopes of
bolstering his own standing within the party.
He was the recipient in 1966 of a George
Foster Peabody award, one of the highest
distinctions in broadcast journalism, and
received several other awards and citations
for his reporting.
Simon chosen
for Treasury
WASHINGTON Energy director
William E. Simon was nominated by
President Nixon Wednesday to replace
George P. Shultz as Treasury secretary.
Simon's assistant, John C. Sawhill, will
succeed to the energy post.
Simon, 46, has been doubling since
December as head of the Federal Energy
Office and as undersecretary of the Treasury.
The White House made clear he will not
face the wide range of economic
responsibilities assigned to Shultz.
Simon was making millions on Wall
Street as an investment banker when he
accepted the Treasury undersecretary job in
January, 1973.
Sawhill, 37, joined Simon at the Federal
Energy Office last December, and was chief
architect of the fuel allocation system and
the contingency plans for gasoline rationing.
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compiled by Tom Scarritt and Walter Cotton
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Soviet actions may hurt peace effort
BEIRUT -The Israeli-Syrian war of attrition went into its 37th day Wednesday with
Western diplomats expressing concern that increased Soviet involvement in Syria's
war efforts could hamper, or even wreck, U.S. perce-making efforts in the Middle
East
The concern was fanned by a joint Syrian-Soviet communique issued on Syrian
President Hafex Assad's return to Damascus Tuesday from a five-day official visit to
the Soviet Union and talks with Kremlin leaders.
Kountie declares himself chief of Niger
COTONOU, Dahomey Lt. Col. Seyni Kountie proclaimed himself Niger's chief of
state Wednesday and named a 12-man all-military council to run the drought
stricken West African nation. -
The announcement came in a broadcast by the official radio station in the capital
of Niamey, three days after Kountie toppled the government of President Hamani
Diori in a military coup.
Kountie, the 43-year-old chief of staff of Niger's 2,500-man army, named himself
president of the 12-man Supreme Council to run the nation.
Sax be believes
Patricia guilty
SAN FRANCISCO U.S. Attorney
James Browning said Wednesday a grand
jury will have to decide whether Patricia
Hearst was a willing participant in a Hihcrnia
Bank robbery. Monday. U.S. Attorney
General William B. Saxbe said he thought
she was and called her a common criminal.
In Washington, Saxbe said he had
concluded Patricia "was not a reluctant
participant" in the holdup. His opinion, he
told newsmen, was based on the way she
behaved, the number of people in the bank
who observed her behavior, the testimony of
witnesses, and the actions in the bank."
Now more than ever
KESLEY, Iowa A Democratic
congressional candidate said Wednesday he
has invited President Nixon to his district to
campaign for Republicans.
Nicholas Johnson of Kcsley, who is
seeking the Democratic nomination in
Iowa's 3rd District, noted that the President
campaigned for the Republican candidate in
Michigan's special congressional election
but a Democrat won in Tuesday's balloting.
Johnson said he was very heartened by the
results in Michigan and added: I already
have my request in to the President."
State suits reinstated
WASHINGTON Overturning a lower
court decision, the Supreme Court ruled
Wednesday that the families of students shot
in the 1970 Kent State violence may press
damage suits against National Guardsmen
and state officials involved.
The 8-0 decision held that an old common
law doctrine of executive immunity is only a
limited, not an absolute, barrier to personal
liability for official actions.
It reinstated for lower court action two'
damage suits that ask 1 1 million in damages
from former Ohio Gov. James A. Rhodes,
former Kent State University president
Robert I. White and other officials and
National Guardsmen involved in the May 4,
1970 campus shooting.
The court Wednesday did not rule on the
merits of the two Kent state lawsuits before
it. It merely reinstated them in the U.S.
District Court in Cleveland.
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