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When former Watergate Prosecutor Leon Jaworski returned to Washington a year ago to conduct the House Ethics Committee's investigation of Korean influence buying he said: "There is another challenge to another institution of Government, and it's up to someone to ferret out the facts." Last week Jaworski decided to end his probe, with more questions unanswered than answered. The results are skimpy: four Congressmen facing disciplinary action, one former House member in jail and another former member facing trial for accepting gifts from Rice Dealer Tongsun Park...
...present executives, who include many of her father's old associates. Beyond that, she should be able to acquire a Soviet visa that permits her to come and go as she pleases. Thus Christina could continue commuting between New York, Paris and Monte Carlo to conduct her corporate affairs from those preeminently non-Communist bastions...
...trend coincides with a current journalistic emphasis, even in the respectables, on what is interesting, against what is important. (The important may make a comeback in news interest but at the moment lacks either the urgency of danger or the stimulus of hope.) Recognizing this shift, politicians constantly conduct polls about their image and resist too much identity with substance. So watch Jerry Brown proving how zealous he is at implementing the Proposition 13 he fought. Note Jimmy Carter, falling in the ratings but still registering high for likability...
...Bourne took a paid leave of absence. He later explained: "I didn't want to create the kind of situation Bert Lance had. The more you hang in, the more people go after you. I will resolve it and come back." Bourne also issued a statement justifying his conduct: he had written a prescription for one of his aides, Ellen Metsky, 25, who was suffering from insomnia, and had used a pseudonym to protect her privacy...
Sinologists are divided on whether China's self-defeating policy toward Viet Nam is caused by inexperience in the conduct of foreign policy, by the notoriously prickly personality of Teng Hsiao-p'ing, or by some obscure power struggle in Peking. Whatever the reason, China's new activism is not only turning old enemies into new friends, but old friends into new enemies...