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...turned over to Dean every FBI document on the investigation that he requested. Gray even sent these reports to Dean without telling Kleindienst about it. This was despite a ruling from the FBI's own counsel that no files should be released without the Attorney General's consent. Gray was thus giving information to the White House, whose officials had a political interest in concealing any evidence of their involvement. And he was bypassing Kleindienst, whose department would have the obligation of prosecuting anyone violating federal laws in the case...
...have witnessed a series of major scandals in the last four years. The International Telephone and Telegraph anti-trust consent decree, the Russian wheat deal, the milk price fluctuations, and the first information about the Watergate affair all seem to have developed a tolerance in the American people for incredible corruption in their government...
...action on their behalf. Law Professor Herman Schwartz of the State University of New York (at Buffalo), who was a key legal adviser to inmates during and after the Attica riots, opposes such experiments because he believes the convicts are generally "too beaten down to give meaningful consent." But he also admits that "some of the prisoners do want it." And not only for the money involved, or for a possible break from parole boards. A major attraction in many cases, says Schwartz, is that "for a while you are treated as a human being, even though...
...their representatives on the Commission on Graduate Education would play a major role in drafting a new aid plan. When the plan was eventually presented to the Commission in January, its student members withheld their support. Their objections were dismissed: the plan was ordered implemented by administrative fiat with consent of department chairmen...
Until now, some dissident writers have been able to avoid trouble by claiming that their books appeared abroad without their consent. They " risked imprisonment only if it could be proved that their work contained "slanderous inventions defamatory to the Soviet state." In the future, any publication within the copyright area would need the writer's approval. The Soviets could then claim that any foreign publication of a dissident work violates the state monopoly on foreign trade-a crime punishable by up to ten years in prison and confiscation of property...