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Fire Target. Far from quitting, Agnew was attacking more vigorously than ever, and his target was no less than the Justice Department of his own Administration and, by implication, Republican Attorney General Elliot Richardson and even Republican President Richard Nixon. The specific target of his fire was Henry Petersen, chief of the Justice Department's criminal division, who is supervising the investigation of Agnew's conduct while a Maryland official (see box following page). But Agnew, as part of the Nixon Administration, knows better than most that Petersen is hardly a sovereign agent, that Richardson by his own admission...
Attorney General Elliot Richardson rushed to Petersen's defense, calling him "a distinguished Government lawyer with more than two decades of prosecutorial experience." Moreover, he noted pointedly: "Experienced though he may be, he does not have sole responsibility ... for criminal matters of grave importance. In such matters the decisional process is shared, and the final responsibility is the Attorney General's." Despite that defense of his deputy, TIME has learned that Richardson initially did have doubts about Petersen's Watergate performance. But prompt high public praise of Petersen by White House officials, including the President, had made...
...pansies" who will do nothing when attacked. All of the Panthers know judo, karate, Kung Fu or plain old alley fighting. For gays without defensive skills, the Panthers hold training sessions with instruction from a judo brown belt and a karate expert. Although Ray has a working arrangement with Elliot Blackstone, the police community relations officer who deals with homosexuals, not to carry firearms on his patrols, he does keep a shotgun in his office, which, he boasts, "will leave a hole in a man big enough to drive a s « tank through Georgia...
...explosive resolution. One version had it that Agnew was about to resign and fight his case as a private citizen, another that Nixon was twisting the screws to persuade him to resign, a third that the Vice President was desperately trying to make a deal with Attorney General Elliot Richardson's Justice Department-and ultimately, of course, with the White House-to resign in exchange for having the case against him dropped...
...bald, cautious and professorial. He has earned no great prestige within his profession or even within his specialty. He is so nondescript, in fact, that his rather solemn-minded boss, U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson, seems positively charismatic by comparison. But if Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Kauper (pronounced koy-per), 38, does not look like a tiger, he is beginning to act like one. In an Administration that has become all too cozy with big businessmen seeking influence, the chief of the Justice Department's antitrust division has kept up steady pressure against monopolistic practices−including some...