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Press Secretary Ron Ziegler goes through his rituals of evasion like some man we never knew. Arrogance has given way to patience. Scorn, contempt and anger have faded into professions of understanding. He presides in front of his pale blue backdrop every morning with a large, uncomprehending sadness behind his eyes...
Long involved with left-wing political causes, Miller was indicted and later acquitted for contempt in the fifties by the House Un-American Activities Committee, for refusing to reveal to the Committee the names of former left-wing associates...
...hearing guidelines, accepted by White House officials, reserve to his committee the power to decide by majority vote whether the refusal of a witness to answer a specific question is proper. If the committee decides it is not, Ervin said, he will seek to have the witness arrested for contempt unless he answers...
...McCord testimony was based on hearsay. McCord had cited as his sources G. Gordon Liddy, another former White House aide convicted in the wiretapping, and Hunt. But Liddy was refusing to speak to the grand jury at all. Rather than talk, he accepted an additional sentence for contempt of court. Hunt did testify further before the jury, but apparently was not supporting McCord's charges about the Watergate planning and the payoffs?or did not have personal knowledge of them...
...company's earlier offers. As a result of his holding out for a larger settlement, Mason received abusive phone calls, bomb threats, and was even punched while walking in London. The new offer by Distillers was also a triumph for the London Sunday Times, which risked a contempt of court citation to publicize the parents' dilemma...