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...HARRY S. DENT, 44, Nixon's special counsel and political adviser, who devised the 1970 "southern strategy." Pleaded guilty to working with an illegal fund-raising committee called "Operation Townhouse" that distributed money to 1970 congressional candidates; sentenced to one month's probation...
...Dent in Power. Though a Democrat, Sprague had served as first assistant to Republican D.A. Arlen Specter from 1966 to 1974. He so admired his boss that he turned down an offer from Democratic leaders to run for D.A. in his own right. The Democrats then nominated F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, a successful criminal lawyer who trounced Specter in the election. Fitzpatrick wasted no time reorganizing the office. "After all, I campaigned against the operations of this office," he points out. One big change: assistant D.A.s were told they could come directly to the boss with problems. Previously they...
That was an unquestioned dent in Sprague's power, but the flash point between him and Fitzpatrick came over questions about the new D.A.'s ethics. First, local papers reported that after his election and before taking office, Fitzpatrick had held a victory cocktail party. Many of the lawyers who might well have future clients in trouble with the D.A. paid $50 a head to attend the fund raiser. "These parties are given all the time," says Fitzpatrick, who does not deny that the money collected went to him. The state supreme court's disciplinary board...
...certainly can-and has. Though the economy has been drifting down all year, the slide has been so gentle for so long that the Nixon and Ford Administrations felt it possible to deny that the nation was in a recession at all. As recently as October, Commerce Secretary Frederick Dent asserted that the economy was only going through a period of "sideways waffling." Now, though, the slide has suddenly become something more like a nosedive-by some measures, the worst since the 1930s...
...does not affect the court's power to try him. In the leading case on the subject, the Supreme Court in 1886 upheld the conviction of an Illinois embezzler who was grabbed and brought back from South America by a Pinkerton detective. There has been a recent dent in that precedent, however. The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which has a jurisdiction that includes New York, ruled last May that due process now requires "a court to divest itself of jurisdiction over ... a defendant, where it has been acquired as the result of the Government's deliberate...