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This week the most important of the three federal grand juries investigating the Watergate scandals is expected to issue major indictments. The indictments, involving the Watergate wiretapping of Democratic national headquarters and the conspiracy to conceal that crime, could well include some surprising names. Most of the likely defendants are expected to be former close Nixon associates whose past public statements support the President's own declarations of innocence. If, as expected, they are formally accused of being part of the cover-up conspiracy and charged with various counts of perjury, Nixon's Watergate position will be seriously...
...exam to some students, but in not revealing them to the rest. Similarly, the Biology Department's giving everyone in Bio 21 "A"s on their first hour-exam because all the hour-exams were lost bespoke a certain amount of carelessness, compounded by professors' initial attempt to conceal the loss. But in the end it hurt no one's education and probably pleased most people in the course. They should have lost the final...
While Nixon looked trim and vigorous, considering his long year of personal ordeal, the pancake makeup did not conceal recently acquired facial lines. He perspired more freely than ever. In a classic slip of the tongue, he read a line about the need to replace "the discredited present welfare program" as the need to replace the "dis credited President," then corrected himself...
...report was coldly scientific, its source unassailably objective, its grave import unmistakably clear: at least as late as last October, an effort to conceal evidence in the Watergate scandal was still in operation in the innermost reaches of Richard Nixon's White House...
...that his new book was "slanderous," "counterrevolutionary" and "treasonable." In support of these contentions, other Russian newspapers weighed in with quotations allegedly drawn from the Russian text of Gulag, which was published in Paris last month. All the Soviet accounts of his book, Solzhenitsyn said, were distortions designed to conceal its real content from Russian readers. Thus do Soviet leaders show, he declared, "how tenaciously they cling to the bloody past and how they want to drag it with them, like a sealed up sack, into the future...