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When Attorney General Griffin Bell was cited for contempt last summer and threatened with jail for refusing to release confidential FBI files, Washington Lawyer Charles Morgan Jr. teasingly sent his good friend an unusual present. The Attorney General escaped the jail threat, but he hung the gift on his office door. It was still there when Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph A. Califano Jr. faced a contempt threat as a result of a North Carolina civil rights suit. Bell, who would be called on to defend his fellow Cabinet member, forwarded the offering to Califano. "What a hell...
Russell said Atty. Gen. Griffin Bell, prompted by the Iranian riot, directed the INS to check the number of foreign students in American colleges. "Our information was about seven months behind, so we asked colleges to give us the number of foreign students enrolled with them," Russell said...
...Brian W. Bell, the finance officer for the holding company of the Rainier Corporation, said yesterday, "We only have two very small loans in South Africa." He added that the corporation did not plan to withdraw these loans or increase its loans to South Africa in the near future...
That was enough for Bell. Two days later he called a press conference to announce that Curran would not have to get Heymann's approval if he wanted to prosecute someone. One restriction upon Curran's authority does remain. He still must get approval from Justice before asking a court to grant a witness immunity from prosecution. Bell said, correctly, that Jaworski himself had operated under a similar restriction. Bell added that Curran could be removed from office "only for extraordinary impropriety, physical disability, mental incapacity or any other condition that substantially impairs [his] performance...
...Curran's status was greeted with applause. Said Robert McClory, senior Republican on the House Judiciary Committee: "The American people have at last been assured that the investigation of these matters will be untainted. For this, I extend my thanks to the Attorney General." Senator Dole praised Bell for acting "in the best interest of the nation and the President." He said that Bell "has apparently moved in the right direction to allay fears that justice might not be done in this case...