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Last week Edith had more cause to be furious. Nina, who was vacationing in Nassau-ironically close to Hughes' reclusive penthouse on Paradise Island-confirmed that she had accompanied Irving on a five-day trip to Oaxaca, Mexico, last February. In his exhaustive affidavit explaining how he had obtained the autobiography, Irving claimed to have held two secret meetings with Hughes during that Mexican trip. But Nina said that such meetings would have been impossible, since Irving hardly ever left her side. The total time they were apart, she said, was for "an hour, an hour and a half...
With McGraw-Hill and LIFE at least temporarily suspending their plans to publish, the New York State Supreme Court took no further action on a motion by Hughes' lawyers to enjoin publication. Before the matter became moot, however, Irving filed with the court a minutely detailed affidavit describing the numerous meetings during which Hughes supposedly recited his extraordinarily confessional autobiography. If Irving is lying, he has obviously left himself open to comprehensive perjury charges, for his account is remarkably explicit. He and Hughes first met by prearrangement, says Irving, in Oaxaca, Mexico, on Feb. 13. By Irving...
...quashed yesterday subpoenas calling for grand jury testimony by Noam Chomsky, Ward Professor of Linguistics at MIT: Richard Falk, Milbank Professor of International Law at Princeton; and Ralph Stavins, a member of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington. The ruling was made on the grounds that a government affidavit denying wiretapping, filed last month, is insufficient...
...affidavit, Alan W. Peryam, assistant U.S. attorney, revealed that "A telephonic message" to all state directors on November 23 ordered that inductions be stopped because the states had met their quotas "earlier than anticipated...
...disavow any "connections" with societies similar to the John Birch Society, Rauh was sharply rebuked by Senator Kennedy. (The false report of the nominee's Birch membership came from the Associated Press, and had already been scotched when Mississippi Senator James Eastland, chairman of the committee, presented an affidavit from Rehnquist disclaiming any such membership...