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Although he is devoted to his work, Nesson has had opportunities to work on other issues drawing national attention. In 1970 he worked on the appeal of contempt citations in the Chicago Seven cases, and was also successful in acquiring a parole for Daniel Berrigan, who had been imprisoned for burning draft records at Catonsville...
Parker has been unavailable for comment since the vote was taken last week. However, her husband said yesterday that "the report is basically a good one," and that the charges of "repeated contempt" leveled against his wife were "simply not true...
...taken previously to calm down Kissinger, who was caught in yet another struggle by Congress to pry secret information out of the Administration. The Secretary had been outraged when the House committee, led by pugnacious New York Democrat Otis Pike, voted to cite him with three counts of contempt of Congress for not obeying its subpoenas to turn over three sets of top-secret documents. They are: 1) State Department recommendations on covert intelligence actions between 1962 and 1972, 2) National Security Council records of the Central Intelligence Agency's covert operations since 1965 and 3) intelligence reports concerning...
Viewed from Peking, U.S. leadership is now a serious question mark, what with Ford facing Ronald Reagan's challenge on the right and Kissinger facing a contempt-of-Congress citation. The Chinese believe the Secretary of State is also on the defensive for his pursuit of detente with the Soviet Union, which they regard as a cave-in by Washington to imperialist Moscow's blandishments. In October, when Kissinger visited Peking for four days to prep for the Ford trip, he was openly lectured on the "illusions" of a policy the Chinese consider to be appeasement...
...turned out, Capitol Hill gave Kissinger much more cause for worry than did President Ford. The House committee investigating U.S. intelligence operations recommended that the Secretary be cited with three counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over subpoenaed documents on covert intelligence operations. If the full House votes to cite Kissinger, a move that would be unprecedented, the case would go to the courts. Kissinger said last week the President had directed him to withhold the material on the grounds of Executive privilege. The Secretary, visibly upset and reacting strongly, said he regretted the committee...