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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...negotiator, New York Attorney Lawrence E. Walsh, 57, has not even taken part in the talks since June. Although on call if needed in Paris, he has spent much of his time attending to private business and American Bar Association affairs back home. The only genuine smile among the Americans seemed to belong to the always ebullient Harold Kaplan, the chief press officer. After years of graciously answering reporters' post-midnight queries in both Saigon and Paris, Kaplan, 51, is retiring from government service early. He will become an officer of Investors Overseas Service, a mutual fund and investment...
...White House attitude-a combination of stolidity and nervous optimism-increasingly sounded like whistling in the dark. Though the Senate Judiciary Committee last week cleared Haynsworth's nomination to the Supreme Court by a vote of 10 to 7, opposition to the appointment was gathering force, particularly among Republicans. At week's end the hard votes against Haynsworth among the 43 G.O.P. Senators numbered at least 14, and nine or ten more were undecided. Nixon did not have the assured support of even half of his party's Senators. An Associated Press poll counted 46 Senators against...
Until 1967, Itkin was an FBI and Justice Department informer, operating among Mafia families. He surfaced two years ago to testify in the successful prosecution of a graft case in New York. Since then, he has helped convict or indict more than 20 other mobsters. According to federal authorities, Itkin's intelligence could produce another 30 separate racketeering cases against about 50 defendants. But since May, Itkin has refused to testify-for bizarre reasons that oddly illuminate the worlds of both crime and law enforcement...
...implication, supported by other witnesses, was that officers could not have cared less about hanky-panky among sergeants. Turner was accused of throttling an inquiry into a service-club scandal at Fort Benning, Ga., telling subordinate investigators: "Wooldridge is just a good ol' country...
...make up any time in the foreseeable future equally inconceivable. Indeed, even in agreeing to hold border talks with the Soviets, the Chinese spoke of "irreconcilable differences" with Moscow. Yet what if the inconceivable should occur once again, and Moscow and Peking were able to reach a genuine reconciliation? Among the possibilities...