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Clearly, a troubled nation was waiting for an explanation, a restoration of public trust. What it received instead was a plea by the President to put aside the "backward-looking obsession with Watergate [that] is causing this nation to neglect matters of far greater importance." He made no real effort...
"The department has no choice," a Justice official in Washington said. "At least three witnesses have told of delivering cash payoffs to Agnew. The evidence is so strong that the case must be taken to trial." A federal grand jury in Baltimore is expected to vote an indictment next month...
Last week, he had to announce to a stunned public: "I am under investigation for possible violation of the criminal statutes." Specifically, the inquiry centers on allegations by Maryland contractors and others that Agnew collected payoffs during his terms as Baltimore County executive (1962-66), as Maryland Governor (1967-68...
So reasoned President Nixon's attorneys in arguing last week that the Chief Executive need not give tape recordings of White House conversations to Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, not even if they contain evidence of a crime. That argument, along with the disclosure that Vice President Agnew was being...
At week's end, there was still no clear word from the terrorists about their aims, except a demand for the release of Kozo Okamoto, the only survivor of the three-man Japanese murder team that carried out last year's massacre at Lod. His two companions were...