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...conservative students to infiltrate radical organizations and find out about their plans for anti-Nixon activities. As scheduling director of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, he was aware that the money actually had been transferred to G. Gordon Liddy for dirty tricks, including the Watergate breakin. Strictly speaking, Porter had not committed perjury because he was not under oath, but he broke the law by lying to a federal agency in the course of an investigation. Porter thus becomes the 17th defendant to be convicted in the Watergate and related campaign scandals. There are likely...
...greatest impetus-and opportunity-for reforming campaign financing in this century has come from Watergate. Yet 22 months have passed since the Watergate breakin, and nothing has been accomplished. Despite the Senate action, prospects for significant reform are still dim because of stonewalling by Wayne Hays (whose appetite for reform, in the words of the public lobby Common Cause, "is near zero") and the threat of a Nixon veto...
...sources who pepper the book's pages with their tips: "the Bookkeeper," a conscience-stricken woman who served C.R.P.'s finance chairman, Maurice Stans. "Something is rotten in Denmark and I'm part of it," she tremblingly warned Bernstein in her home one night a few weeks after the breakin...
DAVID R. YOUNG JR., 37, co-director with Krogh of the plumbers. Indicted in the Ellsberg breakin; awaiting trial...
Convened on June 5, 1972, to hear evidence of crimes in the District of Columbia, the grand jury was shortly presented with the case of the Watergate breakin. On the evidence that federal prosecutors put before it, the 23-member jury indicted seven men accused of the burglary. Then, its work apparently finished, the jury recessed that September. Six months later it was called back to hear new evidence, and it has been hard at work ever since...