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...world looks on the evening news. Only there it is the government that appears a maze of fraud and deceit, its machine a mystery run by mad men. Watergate has given even greater cause to conspiracy theory; it wrecked public trust in the powerful, spotlighted sin among the elect. But not, for many, brightly enough. Nixon could be neither caught nor convicted. And a lesson was that nothing in the government is what it says or appears to be. Now nobody believes that the Energy Crisis is for real, but they can't be sure, and much less are they...
...concerned about a federal judge ?no matter how worthy his motives or how much we may applaud his results?using the criminal-sentencing process as a means and tool for further criminal investigation of others," contends Chesterfield Smith, president of the American Bar Association. The association's president-elect, James Fellers of Oklahoma City, much admires Sirica and his Watergate role but likens the sentencing tactic to "the torture rack and the Spanish Inquisition." Argues Law Dean Monroe Freedman of Hofstra University: "Sirica deserves to be censured for becoming the prosecutor himself." The University of Chicago's Law Professor...
...continent increasingly coming under the control of military rule, Venezuela is proving to be refreshingly addicted to the practice of democracy. For the fourth time since the overthrow of Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez almost 16 years ago, Venezuelans trooped peaceably to the polls last week to elect a new President to a five-year term. The winner, with 48% of the vote-a near landslide by local standards-was Carlos Andres Perez, 51, a tough ex-Minister of the Interior and standard-bearer of the center-left Democratic Action Party. He immediately announced that he would not cut back...
Much testimony before the House Subcommittee on Small Business was heard in closed session; one subject probed was a Senate Watergate Committee report that William Marumoto, an official of the Committee to Re-Elect the President, arranged placement of $1,483,000 in SBA grants in order to influence Mexican-American votes for Nixon's reelection. Publicly, the subcommittee revealed that Thomas Regan, head of the SBA office in Richmond, approved a loan to a local entrepreneur, Joseph C. Palumbo. Eleven days earlier, Regan, 44, had married Palumbo's sister. Subcommittee Member Henry Gonzalez, a Texas Democrat, says...
Last fall the student ACSR decided not to take an active role in community affairs, but only to elect representatives to advise Daly. It concentrated all last year on shareholder issues...