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...exercise its constitutional power to impeach Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States of America." Given the reaction to the President's transcripts, the committee's hearings on the evidence against Nixon may well be outrun by events. But if Nixon refuses to yield to the rising clamor for his resignation, the months-long constitutional process seemed more likely than ever before to lead to his removal. Even staunch Nixon supporters found it hard to name 34 U.S. Senators who would surely acquit him of impeachment charges and thus keep him in office...
...council's release of Lennon's 17-page statement last week touched off new demands for a full parliamentary inquiry into British counterterrorist methods. A month ago, Kenneth Littlejohn, 32, a convicted bank robber, escaped from Dublin's Mountjoy prison. He set off a public clamor by claiming in a series of interviews that he had been hired by British intelligence to infiltrate the I.R.A. and stir up trouble in the Irish Republic, thereby forcing Dublin to crack down on terrorist sanctuaries. Littlejohn, who is still at large, said that he had been ordered by the British...
THERE IS A GULF between the intentions and actions of black Harvard students. They clamor for more active recruiting and admissions of larger numbers of black freshmen. At the same time they discourage prospective students from attending this school. At dining hall tables, on the streets, around the campus, high school juniors and seniors, who respect the opinions of their older and, supposedly, more intelligent and more mature college hosts, constantly hear that "Harvard is a racist school. You'll get messed over here. Don't come here. Go someplace else...
...easy and inexpensive to copy almost anything. Yet for the past decade, researchers at the company's Webster, N.Y., laboratories have been trying to find a way to render documents invisible to the luminescent eye of a Xerox machine. That seemingly suicidal quest was prompted by a growing clamor from publishers of copyrighted material who are angry about unlawful pirating of their works-and by Government nervousness about dissidents leaking xerographic evidence of federal mischief to the public (read Jack Anderson...
...theater in New York City last week, the players were setting up on stage. The audience entered in rowdy chaos-175 women, mostly black and Puerto Rican, dressed in sleeveless, hemless shifts, and monitored by hefty black female guards in starchy white shirts. A loudspeaker voice cut through the clamor to introduce the program: "'The Family' started behind the walls and it is now functioning outside the wall. And every member is a professional. Today we will see Straight from the Ghetto...