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...Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox held a televised news conference to object to this Nixon "compromise" on the tapes and to declare that he would ask the courts either to cite Nixon for contempt or to clarify why the President's out-of-court offer was unacceptable...
Despite the dismissal of Cox, Law Professors Harry Kalven Jr. of the University of Chicago and Gerald Gunther of Stanford both contend, the court of appeals can still cite Nixon for contempt. "The appellate court has already issued its order," said Kalven, "and it may take judicial notice of the President's defiance even without Cox." Other scholars, however, believe that the courts have no independent prosecutorial power; without a prosecutor, there is no adversary relationship. Cox could be appointed a counsel to the court or an agent for the grand jury that is still assigned to consider Watergate...
...failure of two absurdly bungled plots to smuggle a former Egyptian general over to the Germans. First a getaway car broke down, then an escape plane crashed on takeoff. Along with two Nazi spies who were his accomplices, Sadat was betrayed by a belly dancer and arrested. Israelis frequently cite Sadat's pro-German sympathies during World War II as proof of his implacable anti-Jewish feelings. Actually, Sadat collaborated with the Nazis primarily because they were the enemies of his enemy: the British, who then occupied Egypt...
Promptly demonstrating that he needed neither, Buchanan turned back all suggestions that his memos advocated anything illegal or improper in politics. While readily agreeing that Democratic improprieties do not justify Republican misdeeds (" Tu quoque is the weakest of all arguments"), Buchanan took every opportunity to cite political tactics by Democrats that he considered worse than anything Republicans had done. What could be worse, he suggested, than George McGovern's comparing Nixon with Adolf Hitler and U.S. war policy in Southeast Asia with Hitler's extermination of Jews.* But what kind of political activity did he advocate? "Anything that...
...exemptions. Cambridge City Council Monday night unanimously ordered the Board of Assessors to determine whether three tax-exempt properties should be on the local tax rolls. The resolution specifically cite the official residences of President Bok, President Horner and Rev. Krister Stendahl, dean of the Divinity School, but also requested an investigation of all Harvard property...