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James St. Clair, 62, Nixon's chief defense lawyer. Working under great handicap of his client's lies, he lost battle to protect tapes. Practices law in Boston, teaches part-time at Harvard...
James St. Clair, Nixon's lawyer, was in my office when I returned. We had exchanged a few words during the preceding months. Now he obviously needed someone to talk to. He was bothered about whether he could have done better. "It was not a legal case," I told him. "It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started, it could not end otherwise...
DIED. René Clair, 82, pre-eminent French director who used surrealism and satire to limn the absurdities of human behavior in such classic films as Paris Qui Don (1923), Entr'acte (1924), Le Million (1931) and A Nous la Liberte(1932); of a heart attack; in Neuilly, France. Clair made several English-language movies in the U.S. during World War II, including I Married a Witch (1942) and It Happened Tomorrow (1943), before returning to France to direct films, write novels and in 1973 produce Orphée et Eurydice at the Paris Opéra. Clair once...
...success on our viewers," says William McCarter, president of WTTW. But small stations that are much more dependent on money from Washington will be severely hurt by the Reagan slices. "A 25% cut won't put us out of business, but it will seriously cripple us," says St. Clair Adams, general manager of little KEET in Eureka, Calif...
Malcolm Kalp, 43, a communications employee, was kept in solitary for 374 of the 444 days and frequently beaten. The reason: he tried several times to escape. Clair Barnes, who served in the communications section, said that other hostages who attempted to flee in the first days of the occupation were beaten with rubber hoses...