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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...figure in the testimony last week. Dean recalled that White House staffers looked on the Senator as a potential friend. They asked him for a voice in the selection of the committee's minority counsel but were rebuffed. Later, on Feb. 22, he advised Nixon privately to abandon his stand on Executive privilege, at least for the Watergate hearings. On several occasions, Baker had flatly denied that there were any Watergate-related contacts between himself and the President since Feb. 7, when the committee was formed. Later he admitted that he had indeed met with the President and explained...
...CHANGING LIFESTYLES: "We don't want to lose our nerve and give up and say we've come to the point in man's history where we're simply going to have to abandon what we've been doing. If it comes to that, I think we ought to go down trying...
...fall. He conceded that he had-and this was promptly leaked to the press. Nixon associates also supplied the committee with a White House summary of conversations between Dean and Nixon that conflicted with Dean's account; this too was quickly conveyed to newsmen. Still apparently unwilling to abandon its discredited snooping tactics, the White House, TIME has also learned, has hired private detectives to probe Dean's background further. Claimed a source friendly to Dean: "They can't call on the FBI any more, so they've gone out and hired their own private eyes...
...young American couple and a New Zealand woman six months pregnant. They and a dozen or so companions were heading for the lonely atoll of Mururoa, about 750 miles southeast of Tahiti and 530 miles northwest of rocky Pitcairn Island. Their mission: to force the French government to abandon plans to explode a series of nuclear devices in the area...
...innocents are Ned and Beth Constantine and their twelve-year-old daughter. They are nice, safe people who come into a nice, safe inheritance, which allows Ned to abandon-pfaugh...