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...gave $25,000 in Minnesota and, ah, the check went directly to this guy [Watergate Burglar Bernard] Barker...
Geologists Ian Dalziel of Columbia University and Peter Barker of the University of Birmingham led a multinational scientific team aboard the research ship Glomar Challenger this spring, probing the ocean depths east of the Falkland Islands. Lowering a coring drill 8,500 ft. to the bottom, they penetrated through 1,835 ft. of sediment before beginning to bite into the solid rock that they were looking for. Analysis of the core samples brought to the surface identified it as granite about 600 million years old. The find proved that the rock was continental shelf and not ocean basin crust, which...
...goes in some directions we don't want it to go. Ah, also there have been some things--like an informant came off the street to the FBI in Miami who was a photographer or has a friend who is a photographer who developed some films through this guy Barker and the films had pictures of Democratic National Committee letterhead documents and things. So it's things like that that are filtering in. Mitchell came up with yesterday, and John Dean analyzed very carefully last night and concludes, concurs now with Mitchell's recommendation that the only way to solve...
...gave $25,000 in Minnesota and, ah, the check went directly to this guy Barker...
Like Ehrlichman, the other three conspirators had been stripped of a plausible defense because they could not plead national security. In an eloquent final argument for Barker and Martinez, Attorney Daniel Schultz portrayed them as "little men" who had been victimized by their cynical and sophisticated superiors in Washington. They had been led to believe that they were acting on the highest patriotic principles. Countered Merrill: "People cannot be allowed to violate the law because they are told it is right. That's not patriotism. It's anarchy-the beginning of a police state...