Word: dec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Supreme Court after it reconvenes Oct. 1. Since that court will not reach a decision before hearing oral arguments, Cox is considering taking the unusual step of asking Congress for a special act to extend the 18-month life of his grand jury. It is scheduled to expire Dec. 4, but he wants to keep it in session until after the tapes battle has ended and all Watergate indictments have been voted...
...Dec. 15, 1970, B. & C. paid $1,249,000 for about 24 of the 30 acres that, by Nixon's accounting, he had originally bought. Put another way, the President managed to recover 83% of his original purchase price by selling off 80% of his land-holding on to his house and six acres of choice ocean-front land in the bargain. Furthermore, since the entire plot was (and still is) held in trust by Los Angeles' Title Insurance & Trust Co., what B. & C. actually bought was a "beneficial interest" in the trust - an arrangement that might make...
Neither the White House nor ITT had any comment on the Colson memo last week; neither did McLaren, who on Dec. 2, 1971, was appointed by President Nixon to a federal judgeship. Colson, however, insisted that as "a good staff guy," he had merely been playing the part of "a devil's advocate"-outlining the problems that the Judiciary Committee might raise "in their worst context...
...suburb of Bangkok, on Dec. 10, 1968, barefoot and wet from a shower, Merton touched a defectively wired room fan and was electrocuted. His death prompted friends to speculate whether Merton would ever have returned to the U.S. from his enthusiastic plunge into Buddhism. The answer now seems to be yes, though he might not have returned to Gethsemani itself...
...since the My Lai atrocities came to light in 1969 had a tiny village caused such an uproar. Father Adrian Hastings, a British Catholic priest, alleged that Portuguese government troops had gone on a murderous rampage in the Portuguese Mozambique village of Wiriyamu last Dec. 16. The priest, quoting reports from Spanish missionary priests, claimed that Portuguese soldiers killed some 400 villagers suspected of sympathizing with Frelimo, the Mozambique Liberation Front...