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Administration spokesmen have been insisting, with growing desperation, that Government business goes on as usual. So, apparently, do Capitol fun and games. Last week, during a time out in Senator Sam Ervin's Select Committee hearings, a remarkable confrontation took place on the playing fields of Washington, D.C. Sam's Sluggers, a softball team composed of the staffs of Ervin's various committees, squared off against the Assistants, a pickup team of Administration and Executive Branch bureaucrats. Partisan politics were kept to a minimum - as were legitimate line drives and flashy fielding plays. In fact, the game...
...DRAMA of Watergate unfolds daily, it becomes ever more clear that crimes have been committed in the case. Tales of extensive burglary, electronic eavesdropping, forgery and bribery have all been spilled before the Ervin Committee or leaked to the press. The question of the moment is the extent to which Richard Nixon is responsible for those crimes...
...panel (above), led by Senator Sam Ervin (D-N.C.) and (second from left) Howard Baker (D-Tenn.) (far left), has proceeded cautiously throughout the hearings. Ervin has displayed both puzzlement (upper left) and pleasure (left) at the testimony. Sometimes, the testimony has intrigued Ervin and bored Baker (bottom center...
Under the new law the Ervin committee is able to offer only use immunity, which, once approved by Judge Sirica, can be imposed on Dean whenever the committee chooses. But to testify with such limited protection, says a Dean friend, would be like going before the committee "with his fanny showing." Actually, full immunity is available under old laws until they expire in 1974, and the Attorney General could authorize it if he wished. But so far, the prosecutors have offered only to let Dean plead guilty to one count of obstruction of justice, with the likelihood of a suspended...
...prosecutors face another problem, though. If Dean testifies fully before the Ervin committee, they will have a difficult time proving in any subsequent trial that they are using absolutely nothing growing out of protected statements. They would like to solve that problem by putting off the Senate hearing. They also might choose to indict Dean before the Ervin committee even calls him as a witness. Ervin is known to be against calling anyone who has been indicted. But Dean, who has not said what he would do if granted only use immunity, has threatened to clam up completely if even...