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...just as he had at Sam Ervin's committee hearings before the television cameras. On the basis of his performance last week, Dean passed his first major test as a witness under fire in a courtroom. He is expected to testify this month at the perjury trial of Dwight Chapin, the former appointments secretary for the President, and at the September trial of the seven former Nixon aides, including Mitchell, charged with covering up the Watergate burglary. In addition, of course, Dean could be a key witness in any impeachment proceeding against the President...
...heavily Democratic Washington, D.C., where most future Watergate trials are likely to take place, former Presidential Appointments Secretary Dwight Chapin, who stands accused of perjury, has already blazed what will doubtless become a familiar path. In support of a requested change of venue, Chapin's lawyer put a black psychiatrist on the stand to testify that the city's 71% black population has "widespread feelings of hostility and rage" toward the Nixon Administration. Judge Gerhard Gesell dismissed Chapin's petition as "an affront to the jury system." Another criminal expert, Stanford Law Professor John Kaplan, takes...
BERNARD BARKER, 56, one of the four Cuban refugees charged in the original Watergate breakin. Pleaded guilty to burglary, conspiracy, illegal wiretapping and eavesdropping; released after twelve months in prison pending appeal. DWIGHT L. CHAPIN, 33, former appointments secretary to Nixon. Indicted on four counts of perjury concerning the activities of Dirty-Tricks Specialist Donald Segretti; awaiting trial...
...Chase National (now Chase Manhattan) Bank and earned resentment from the financial community for proposing such reforms as the absolute separation of investment and commercial banking. A spruce, reserved descendant of Mayflower passengers, during World War II Aldrich headed the British War Relief Society and, after supporting Dwight Eisenhower's candidacy in 1952, left banking to become Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...recent years been recombing that life, issuing volumes of edited diaries and letters that began with her opulent childhood (Bring Me a Unicorn, 1972) as daughter of Morgan Partner Dwight Morrow, and Ambassador to Mexico. The second volume was last year's bestselling account of the tragic kidnaping of her son (Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead). This third volume begins when the Lindberghs were still hounded by reporters, and ends when they decided to escape it all and find a new life in England. The result is short on drama, but it rises to savage yet poignant moments...