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...lawyer has a fool for a client, then the lawyer who be comes his own client is not much better off. Some years ago Law Professor Monroe Freedman raised a storm by suggesting that a criminal-defense lawyer owed such complete allegiance to his client that he should balk at practically nothing, including even in some cases perjury. But this is closer to the no-holds-barred philosophy of war than to that of law. Professor Philip Kurland of the University of Chicago Law School has written about the Watergate mess: "Whatever one might properly expect of professional spies...
...naive approach has advantages--freshness and freedom from preconceptions of what is possible, can spur an institution into considering old issues in new ways. On the other hand, such an approach is highly susceptible to impatience and frustration as things and people seem to balk over and over again at the thought of change. Naivete brings with it a certain detachment that makes things seem quite straightforward by considering only the issues and not the people involved in them. Experience shown--fast--that no matter how sound the ideology, no matter how appropriate the policy, the implementation of it rests...
...nation's surging economy attracted more and costlier imports. To prevent a repeat, the U.S. is demanding that Japan and the European Common Market nations buy more and sell less in America. President Nixon is making protectionist mercantilist threats about what he may do if they balk...
...became, apparently, the first American scholar ever to be jailed for protecting sources, there were angry charges of Government transgression on the freedom of scholarly inquiry. The real issue was whether grand juries should be free to ask almost any question a prosecutor wants asked, and whether witnesses who balk should be imprisoned...
Summing up press coverage of the campaign Columbia Journalism Review Editor Alfred Balk lamented: "My heart bleeds for our trade." Yet there were some praiseworthy exceptions by reporters and writers who dug beneath the bleak surface to uncover new material and insights. The greatest impact was probably made by the Knight Newspapers' Clark Hoyt, who unearthed Tom Eagleton's medical history. Laurels also go to the Washington Post's investigative team of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, young reporters who diligently pursued the Watergate affair and, during much of October, made daily national headlines with their findings. Other outstanding performances...