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Colson, the ubiquitous former White House aide, had spoken to a reporter not only about such "illegal" funds, but also about Weicker's being a "disloyal" Republican. Weicker announced that he had asked Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox to investigate the matter...
Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox, TIME has learned, is investigating reports that Teamsters Union officials used their influence in 1972 to collect contributions to the President's re-election campaign from individuals in the Las Vegas area who had received loans from the union's welfare plan. These contributions are believed to have totaled as much as $600,000, but investigators have been told that only half of that amount ever reached the Nixon campaign fund...
...equally ominous new area of investigation was reported to be under way by the increasingly active staff of Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox. The New York Times claimed that a special grand jury may be convened to explore the possibility that the Nixon fund raisers employed "extortion" tactics in soliciting money from individuals and corporations in various kinds of trouble with the Federal Government. The problems coerced contributors had, the Times said, ranged from income tax cases to disputes with the Securities and Exchange Commission and disputes about cost overruns on Federal contracts. Among the fund raisers expected...
...Link's crew heard the harsh, rasping sound of metal rubbing against metal. Apparently pushed off course by an unexpectedly strong current, the sub had become ensnarled in cables and other debris around the sunken warship. "I'm hung up," radioed Sea-Link's pilot Archibald ("Jock") Menzies, 30, who tried futilely to work the sub free with its six little electric propulsion motors...
That day may have arrived, but at least one legal authority, Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox, apparently finds the camera awesome and troubling. So troubling that he sought to have part of the Watergate hearings closed to TV. It was not print reportage that he feared so much as the camera. Its special qualities of magnification, its instantaneous publicity, seemed to allow no chance for perspective. Witnesses can use it unscrupulously; events can be publicized out of proportion until, at last, justice itself may be undone...