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...economic and political front," or else America "will go separately." Just in case Europeans missed the point, the President observed that Congress might vote to cut U.S. troop strength in Europe unless some understanding is reached. On Saturday, Le Monde, the Paris daily, denounced this as "blackmail...
...Ervin committee last July 30. Said Haldeman: "He [Dean] indicated concern about two problems, money and clemency. He said that Colson had said something to Hunt about clemency . . . The President confirmed that he could not offer clemency, and Dean agreed . . . He also reported on a current Hunt blackmail threat. He said Hunt was demanding $120,000 or else he would tell about the seamy things he had done for Ehrlichman. The President pursued this in considerable detail, obviously trying to smoke out what was really going on . . . He asked how much money would be involved over the years, and Dean...
Haldeman, too, is accused of perjury in his Senate testimony. He denied having been aware that money formerly under his control and later paid to the Watergate defendants was meant as blackmail or hush money. He testified that at the key March 21 meeting attended by Dean (and Nixon, though the indictment does not say so), he did not believe that Dean had made any reference to Jeb Magruder's having committed perjury. Both statements, the indictment says, were untrue...
...most Belgians, the oil companies' action smacks of blackmail. Businesswoman and Oil-Company Critic Simone Descamps complains: "In the U.S., the oil companies explain that their high profits last year are due to the rise of prices in Europe. Here the information they give is very vague." Such views are only being strengthened by the continuing parade of glowing oil-company profit reports, like one from Royal Dutch/Shell that raised eyebrows all over Europe last week. The company, second biggest in the world industry, announced that its 1973 earnings rose 159% over the year before...
...supplies only two-thirds of demand. He preaches that the nation must continue and intensify its efforts to save energy and develop other sources of fuel. The only alternative, Simon says, is to have "the American people subjecting themselves to the economic and political blackmail of any foreign nation" that might wish to cut off the supply of the oil it exports or raise its price to outrageous heights. Still, Simon readily concedes: "My hardest job will be to keep up the momentum -to keep the American people awake to the fact that we da have a problem and will...