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...hundreds of officers sacked by Papadopoulos, the five were sped to the port of Piraeus. From there they were taken to Korydallos prison and placed behind bars, along with the sixth member of the junta's inner circle, former Brigadier General Dimitrios loannidis. All six await trial on charges of insurrection and high treason. If convicted, they face a maximum penalty of death by firing squad...
...Corporation. They discovered that the Depression-born agency's function of lending money to foundering businesses had been assumed by other federal agencies. The Democrats' program issues a clear challenge to the President: "The nation at this juncture could ill afford a passive Congress that did no more than await and then react in leisurely, piecemeal fashion to Executive recommendations...
...pretrial publicity, including the impeachment proceedings against Nixon, made a fair trial impossible, especially in such a politically aware city as Washington. Other arguments, especially by Ehrlichman, will be the failure of Nixon to testify because of his poor health and Sirica's refusal to let the trial await Nixon's recovery. Still another basis for appeal will be Sirica's insistence on presiding over the trial after he was so closely involved in breaking the coverup...
...intended to evade his financial responsibilities has left him wide open for legal proceedings in Britain. At the same time, Labor associates from his Walsall North constituency called for his resignation from Parliament. Yet, even as he returned last week to his red brick, barbed-wire detention center to await a decision on his request to stay in Australia, he managed a composure and self-assurance that friends recognized as vintage Stonehouse: "It's not up to the standards of Conrad Hilton," he quipped. "But it's improving...
...tolerance accepted as love. Like pharaohs and czars and Caesars, Americans surround themselves with absurdly exalted animals. In a disjointed society and a disquieting world, these anthropomorphized adoptees can be counted on to wag and purr and warble, warming human hearts and hearths until they pass expensively on to await us in the Great Pet Sheraton Upstairs...