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Despite the dismissal of Cox, Law Professors Harry Kalven Jr. of the University of Chicago and Gerald Gunther of Stanford both contend, the court of appeals can still cite Nixon for contempt. "The appellate court has already issued its order," said Kalven, "and it may take judicial notice of the President's defiance even without Cox." Other scholars, however, believe that the courts have no independent prosecutorial power; without a prosecutor, there is no adversary relationship. Cox could be appointed a counsel to the court or an agent for the grand jury that is still assigned to consider Watergate...
...Noguchi's autopsy findings got him in trouble and prompted his removal from office. In fact, the removal related to a wide range of matters, and Noguchi was reinstated. Criminalist Harper says that his studies are inaccurately represented in the film, and are not complete. Various other witnesses contend that the TV messenger was not even in the room at the time of the shooting, that Guard Cesar did not draw his gun until after Sirhan had fired his last shots, that Sirhan's gun was initially only inches from Kennedy's turned head...
...Palestinian problem is even more difficult to contend with. The Israelis claim that permitting one and a half million Palestinians to return to an Israel with pre-June 1967 borders would dilute the predominantly Jewish character of the population. In his book My Country, Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban notes that if Israel maintained her post-1967 borders until 1990, Arabs would constitute forty per cent of the total population. The Israelis will have to reach a compromise with the Arab element in their country. The abolition of the special military government which oversaw Arab affairs was a first step...
...Central Europe, Kreisky could hardly avoid being regarded as a Jew. During his successful campaign for Chancellor three years ago, the rightist People's Party printed anti-Kreisky posters urging the electorate to vote for a "genuine Austrian." Experts like University of Wisconsin Historian George L. Mosse, who contend that Austria remains "unreconstructedly anti-Semitic," wonder if Kreisky acceded to the terrorists' demands partly to prove how genuinely Austrian...
...buyers that Texaco Inc. would "pursue all legal remedies to recover crude oil illegally taken from it in Libya." Almost Immediately, the attack began. Texaco and Standard Oil of California sued in Italy to recover from a Sardinian refinery a total of 640,800 bbl. of crude. The companies contend that the oil was pumped from their concessions in Libya and sold by the government of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in violation of their contract rights...