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...though in a Nazi gas chamber...
...defense has no comparable capacity to force information from witnesses. In addition, the secrecy rule makes it difficult to find out what happened within the grand jury chamber. No judge is even permitted inside, and all witnesses testify alone, though they are occasionally allowed to leave the room to consult with their lawyers, who may wait outside. No formal defense is presented, but a potential defendant is generally permitted to say anything he wishes. Grand juries typically leave the questioning to the district attorney and rarely exercise their power to call witnesses...
SMILING at the assembled leaders of all branches of the Government, Richard Nixon made a lighthearted political sally early in his State of the Union speech. "There are more candidates for the presidency in this chamber today than there probably have been at any one time in the whole history of the Republic," he said, to laughter. Actually, not all the candidates from Congress were present, but the President could scarcely avoid the eyes of two of his likely challengers in November. There, seated side by side and within a few yards of him, were Hubert Humphrey and Edmund Muskie...
...huge deficit spending will be an embarrassment to Nixon when he campaigns before conservative constituents, and Democrats are already forming plans to make the most of it. Speaking to a Chamber of Commerce meeting in Washington last week, Treasury Secretary John Connally offered an early answer to the expected attack. "No one likes a deficit of $35 or $40 billion," he said, but some 5,000,000 Americans are unemployed. The "political world," he argued, dictated the huge deficit, and he told his businessmen's audience: "You should be applauding it." At least one top Nixon adviser was somewhat...
...antipollution tactics, the Eco-Commandos are being declared first-prize winners of a national "ecotage" contest. The word is not yet in any lexicon. Coined by Environmental Action, the activist organization in Washington, D.C., that sponsored the contest, it was most emphatically defined in a warning from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as "sabotage done in the name of ecology...