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Showing their contempt for the politicians who had been running Denmark for the past 28 years, many Danes voted for a party that literally hopes to dismantle the government. Headed by Mogens Glistrup, a maverick millionaire lawyer who boasts that he has paid no income tax for the past six years (TIME, April 9), the Progress Party wants to get rid of large numbers of Denmark's 600,000 civil servants until the country is freed from their "paper fiddling...
Reasons given for impeaching Nixon included treason, bribery, violations of the public trust and incompetence. Some respondents suggested that Nixon's lawyers be cited for contempt or disbarred...
Through three months of an extraordinary struggle in the courts, Nixon resisted subpoenas for his tapes, yielding only when he seemed in imminent danger of being cited for contempt of court if he did not. Then the nine subpoenaed tapes dwindled like nine little Indians. The number slipped to seven when the White House contended that two were "nonexistent." Nixon claimed that one of them?a telephone call on June 20, 1972 to John Mitchell, then re-election committee chief?was not taped because he had placed it from his White House living quarters, on a phone that...
...Five in Contempt? The other inquiry involves a gift in 1969 and 1970 of $100,100 from an executive in the business empire of Superbillionaire Howard Hughes to Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo, Nixon's best friend, for what Rebozo says were campaign purposes. The Hughes organization has refused to honor several committee subpoenas. Five prospective witnesses connected with the Hughes organization have filed suit in federal court to prevent the committee from forcing them to testify in preliminary sessions prior to any public appearances. The committee is scheduled to hold a closed meeting this week to consider whether...
What better barge on which to ride out male climacteric than McGee's houseboat Busted Flush (won in a poker game), with its pasha's bed, four-nozzle shower, 1,100-mile range and capacious tanks full of nostalgia and contempt? This time MacDonald gives McGee and his brainy friend Meyer (a retired financier who lives aboard the good ship John Maynard Keynes) some fine autumnal soliloquies...