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...example, I was surprised to read in this book that Nixon probably ordered the Fielding-Ellsberg break-in in 1971. Haldeman relates that about two weeks after I walked into jail in 1976, he and Nixon were out at San Clemente, talking about Nixon's memoirs. Nixon was worried about what to write about his part in the Fielding breakin. "Maybe I did order that break-in," Haldeman quotes him as saying. Since Nixon represented to the court during my trial that he had had nothing to do with the genesis of that breakin, his statements to Haldeman are startling...
Countryman was more wary of the new provision, however, stating that the government can still prosecute under the old "destruction of the government by fraud" provision. The government based its unsuccessful prosecution of Daniel Ellsberg '52 in the Pentagon papers case on that provision...
Help for federal convicts is the aim of ex-Lawyer Charles Colson, who served seven months in prison at Maxwell Air Force Base for obstructing justice in connection with the Daniel Ellsberg Pentagon-papers case. While he was behind bars, Colson bent rules to help fellow inmates; outside, he has dedicated himself to bringing them the hope of salvation. Brown leather Bible in hand, Colson, 46, now speaks in prisons and organizes week-long inmate seminars. His most dramatic program has brought 107 convicts to Washington for two weeks of Bible
...Ellsberg lashed out at an American policy that he termed "balance of terror." Invoking the success of student activism in helping to end the Vietnam war. Ellsberg called for a revival of that student spirit...
...Ellsberg said "no war in history was ended in the way the war in Vietnam was ended," and he said that a grassroots movement, this time against nuclear power, could once again succeed. The need is just as dramatic today, he said, adding that "we must show that we can't and won't go quietly into the nuclear ovens now being prepared...