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...outbursts did not divert Ervin. He asked one question after another about why investigators had not followed up evidence pointing to the likelihood that Nixon's re-election committee and the White House were deeply involved in the planning and financing of the Watergate breakin. Petersen replied that he had let White House and campaign officials avoid testifying before the Watergate grand jury to spare them publicity, and that he had called Silbert off other aspects of the case out of caution. Perhaps, he allowed, he had showed "too much restraint...
...country reacted with shock to the alert. The inevitable suspicion was that the alert, or at least its extent, was caused by a political desire to divert attention from Watergate. The Kalbs report that Kissinger later admitted, privately, that the alert had perhaps been on a larger scale than necessary. At any rate, as he and the Kalbs see it, the alert gave the Russians a clear signal of U.S. determination not to allow unilateral intervention in the Middle East and made possible a U.N. resolution for a peacekeeping force excluding the two superpowers. It was an illustration of Kissinger...
...foes into friends. Henry Kissinger may try to brush the subject aside-"Foreign policy is not conducted in relation to Watergate" -but Nixon knows that a successful tour of the Middle East, splendidly covered by American television, will be a diplomatic extravaganza that will, at least temporarily, divert attention from the impeachment proceedings...
...recruiting poor blacks-an attitude that he says is based on the quixotic notion that the genuine black experience is only to be found in the ghetto. As a result, said Kilson, some of the most prestigious colleges in the country have been accepting ill-prepared militants who divert more qualified students from their studies...
...succeed, St. Clair will have to hang tough, as they say--hunker down, stonewall. Delay. Divert. Deny. It will not be easy, and it will certainly take longer than the "several weeks" he wishfully predicts...