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...inoperative" past denials by the White House that reporters' telephones had been tapped, as first reported by TIME (March 5). TIME has also learned that not all the taps were stopped in 1971; some were continued until the Supreme Court decision against them last June. Moreover, Justice Department officials contend the taps did not plug leaks. Said one Justice official: "The first tap brought a lot of garbage about love affairs and trysts...
Some Justice Department officials contend that the Nixon statement neatly protects ousted Presidential Aides Ehrlichman and Haldeman from prosecution for obstruction of justice. They can testify that they were acting under direct presidential orders?and Nixon has now set forth the claim that all of those orders were issued in the interest of protecting national security. Federal prosecutors are likely to clash with the President over his position on what constitutes security...
That law explicitly forbids an employer to finance any of his employees in a suit against their own union. Foundation officials contend that their efforts are legal because donor corporations contribute to a common fund and have no choice in deciding which suits get legal aid; thus, they say, no company is instigating suits by its own employees. Foundation President Reed Larson nevertheless refuses to disclose the names of the corporate contributors, although in effect the ten-union suit demands that he do so. If he did, says Larson, the unions would "try to intimidate these people to stop giving...
...They contend that the carnival is an ideal place to study what Sociologist Erving Goffman (TIME, Jan. 10, 1969) calls the total institution-a self-contained organization or society that raises barriers against the outside world...
...down women's tennis. The match is the result of a challenge he made two years ago to Billie Jean King. "You insist that top women players provide a brand of tennis comparable to men's," he said then. "I challenge you to prove it. I contend that you not only cannot beat a top male player but that you can't beat me, a tired...