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Lawton M. Chiles Jr., 44, Florida's self-styled "progressive conservative" Democratic Senator, won election four years ago after staging a 1,000-mile, cross-state walkathon. As a member of the "Class of 70," a small group of freshmen legislators bent on reforming the Senate, Chiles, a lawyer, decries the chamber's inefficiencies and has sponsored a "sunshine" bill that would open most congressional committee meetings and federal agency hearings to the public. "We're hidebound and hobbled," he says. "We're so far behind the state legislature of Florida in our decision-making capacity...
Editors and publishers are not laughing. Some news executives indeed agree that biased liberals bent on vengeance are using Watergate to bring down an old foe. That is the view, for instance, of Eugene C. Pulliam (Arizona Republic, Phoenix Gazette, Indianapolis Star), Franklin B. Smith (Burlington, Vt, Free Press) and William Loeb (Manchester, N.H., Union Leader...
...somewhat when Charles W. Colson, the President's former counsel and chief White House political operative, was sentenced to prison for obstruction of justice-and said in court that he had committed the crime on direct orders from Nixon. A recent convert to evangelical Christianity, Colson seemed bent on telling the truth to the House Judiciary Committee and its impeachment investigators. Perhaps only Nixon and Colson know how damaging that may prove to the President...
...concern himself with general principles, but need not deal with the smaller details," he wrote. K'ang-hsi dis agreed: "Failure to attend to details will end up endangering your greater vir tues." It is still excellent advice, for pipe fitters as well as Presidents with an imperial bent...
...client had "a distinguished record in the military and in service to the Government of the United States." The judge noted Kleindienst's fine character, the supporting letters from his friends and the favorable report from a probation officer. His offense, said Hart, "did not reflect a mind bent on deception, but rather reflects a heart too loyal and considerate of the feelings of others...