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Murine and Candy Bars. Newsmen found the hardest job was just reading the document. That task, reports Peter Lisagor, Washington bureau chief for the Chicago Daily News, "was a full day's operation-with lots of Murine and candy bars for energy." The New York Times assigned nine Washington reporters and four editors to the transcripts. The Wednesday morning edition carried nine bylined stories and ten pages of transcripts, the first of a four-part serialization of the whole thing. The Washington Post put 18 reporters on the transcripts; most of them had been working on Watergate for months...
Still, there's really no good reason for headlines about the transcripts' "epic story" or for the Judiciary Committee to pretend that they are a more significant document than, say, the Pentagon Papers. But then, Congress has been moving closer to Nixon's way of looking at things for awhile now. The most important account in the Judiciary Committee's bill of investigation, Nixon's "secret" bombing of Cambodia for three years, quietly dropped from their priority list a couple of weeks ago. Of course, if Congress cared as much about innocent people's lives as about electioneering dirty tricks...
...event, the value of the environmental study when it is finished will be questionable. It will not produce the definitive document we hoped for. People will have to arrive at their own conclusions. I have. After two full years grappling with the issues I have come to think that there is only one workable solution. The museum has to go. It is time the friends of the John Kennedy Library thought seriously about another place...
...Remembers: The Last Testament, a second volume of memoirs that will be published in June by Little, Brown & Co. Like its predecessor, Khrushchev Remembers, the new book is based on tapes dictated by the late Soviet leader during the years before his death in 1971 and is a historical document of enormous value. The tapes were translated and edited by Strobe Talbott, who has served as TIME correspondent in Eastern Europe. In the introduction to The Last Testament, Diplomatic Editor and former Moscow Bureau Chief Jerrold L. Schecter reveals for the first time the circumstances under which Khrushchev recorded...
...notes, purportedly written by Armco Steel Vice President Harry Holiday Jr., indicated that Reserve and its parent companies had tried to use their political influence in Minnesota and Washington to keep the case out of court. Judge Lord was shocked. "If what is represented in this document is taking place every day in the lives of the corporations of our country," he said, "then I fear for our country...