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...HAVE decided to declare a mistrial and grant the motion to dismiss." With these 13 terse words, Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr. ended one of the most extraordinary legal-and in many ways, illegal-proceedings in the history of American justice...
...when he read news reports. "I was appalled at this senseless, illegal action" and was "shocked" to learn that members of the re-election committee "were apparently among those guilty." That does not explain why he authorized Press Secretary Ziegler, just two days after the June 17 breakin, to dismiss it as "a third-rate burglary attempt...
Some Germans dismiss the Communist youth movement, perhaps too lightly, as "middle class." Says one Social Democrat: "They talk revolution and spend their vacations in Spain and Greece, rather than their beloved East Germany. It is all sheer nonsense." But the radicals' demands are serious enough: the ouster of U.S. forces and a drastic reduction of West Germany's defense budget. Beyond these goals, the left seems to be aiming for an eventual reunification of the two Germanys in which socialism would be triumphant...
Nixon may yet recover from Watergate's most serious implications if he quickly and personally acts to dismiss anyone in whom he has lost confidence because of the affair. Such aides are now a clear liability to him. He need not wait for indictments, assuming he now knows who was involved. If he does not, he has been astonishingly negligent. As Mississippi Democratic Senator John Stennis noted last week, Nixon has survived other crises, and may yet be able to "tough...
...group, the Sabras tend to dismiss or be uninterested in the grand visions of Zionism; yet they are zealous about the fate of their homeland. They tend to be more tolerant and respectful toward the Arabs of Israel than their parents are. In the right-wing extremist group called "Land of Israel," which would like to expel Arabs from all Israeli territory, there is said to be not a single native-born Israeli...