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Campus & State
State begins smallpox vaccinations
State Health Department workers began giving smallpox vaccinations Wednesday as Minnesota prepares for the chance of a bioterrorist attack.
Four physicians and a nurse got the vaccinations in front of the media at the state's Emergency Operations Center in St. Paul.
About 50 other Health Department workers were due to get the vaccine Tuesday, and eventually more than 2,700 health workers in Minnesota will be vaccinated.
Workers are getting the vaccine so they will be ready to treat the public in case of a smallpox outbreak.
Former Minnesota Congressman dies
Former Minnesota congressman Clark MacGregor, a confidant of President Nixon during the Watergate scandal, died of respiratory failure on Monday in Pompano Beach, Fla. He was 80-years-old. The Republican was elected to the U.S. House from Minnesota's Third District.
He was chairman of the Committee to re-elect the President from July to November 1972 as the story of the Watergate break-in began to unfold. It eventually led to Nixon's resignation in August 1974.
After Nixon's resignation, MacGregor became vice president of United Technologies Corporation of Hartford, Conn. He retired in 1988 as a senior vice president.
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