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...Clair, at the tune Nixon's chief Watergate defense attorney. St. Clair advised that any citizen had the right to appeal for clemency. Haig asked St. Clair to monitor the conversation. Haldeman's pitch was brief, citing the difficulty of getting a fair trial. There was no threat of blackmail, although given the circumstances, the approach could have seemed ominous to Nixon...
...Jamshid Amuzegar of Iran, expect oil companies to absorb the increase. That is most unlikely; instead, the already high price of gasoline will probably go up about a penny a gallon. In the U.S., John C. Sawhill, head of the Federal Energy Administration, denounced the O.P.E.C. move as "economic blackmail" and said it underscored the need for continued price controls on U.S.-produced oil (see following story...
Echeverria was criticized last year for supposedly encouraging kidnaping when he released 30 leftist prisoners in exchange for Leonhardy's life. He has since vowed never to give in to blackmail, a decision that he said he would not revoke, even in the case of his own father-in-law. "Neither in this nor any other case shall we accede to the demands of kidnapers," said Echeverria...
India's explosion has already triggered a disturbing reaction among its neighbors in the traditionally tense Persian Gulf-Arabian Sea area. Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar AH Bhutto warned that his country, which has fought four wars with India since 1947, "will never surrender to any nuclear blackmail by India. The people of Pakistan are ready to offer any sacrifices and even eat grass to ensure nuclear parity with India." Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, who has been spending billions of dollars in recent years on conventional armaments, warned darkly: "If small nations arm themselves with nuclear weapons...
...people or extremists making their own nuclear weapons. It no longer is absurd to imagine Palestinian terrorists or urban guerrillas stealing enough Pu-239, hiring scientists and manufacturing an easily transportable nuclear explosive. As Arms Expert Dr. Theodore B. Taylor points out, one terrorist group with one bomb could blackmail a metropolis. The University of Virginia's Willrich fears that some day a black market in fissionable materials could develop, with syndicates of organized criminals stealing from private reactors and selling to individuals or governments...