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...issued orders leading to the burglary of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist; 4) offered to appoint the judge in the Ellsberg case FBI director, as a means of influencing his decision in the case; 5) ordered or condoned illegal wiretapping and other "White House horrors" perpetrated by his self-appointed "plumbers"; 6) obstructed justice by firing Prosecutor Cox; 7) directed or knew about the solicitation of illegal campaign contributions from corporations; 8) misused public funds in improving his residences in Key Biscayne and San Clemente; 9) failed to pay his proper share of federal and California income taxes...
Generalissimo Francisco Franco, 81, immediately called the Cabinet into emergency session to consider counter-measures and appoint an interim President, Torcuato Fernandez-Miranda, the head of Spain's only legal party, the National Movement. Although the country remained calm, some arrests were reported, and police patrolled neighborhoods they suspected of harboring dissidents...
Shattered by the election, in which the Social Democrats lost 24 seats, Prime Minister Anker Jorgensen announced that he would resign. With characteristic brashness, Glistrup suggested to Queen Margrethe II that she appoint him to head a new government, even though none of the "other nine parties had pledged him enough support to form anything close to a majority coalition. In fact, Glistrup is so disliked by other politicians that he was given the silent treatment when he entered the Folketing for the first time last week...
...talks were suspended last summer because of Pyongyang's objections to the principal South Korean delegate, CIA Chief Lee Hu Rak. There is now speculation among foreign and South Korean officials that Park will appoint a new chief delegate, thereby starting a process of downgrading a hated lieutenant who has clearly become an international and domestic liability...
...groups-with some overlapping lawyers-have succeeded to the task of running the overall Washington investigation. Last week the Senate was still stirring the mix as two bills were reported out of committee. One would approve the latest Administration choice, Leon Jaworski; the other would authorize the judiciary to appoint a special prosecutor...