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...team of attorneys preparing to fight the grand jury's investigation. The team is headed by Judah Best, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney who now practices in Washington. Assisting Best are Martin London and Jay Topkis, two lawyers from the New York firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison...
...general, who was then commander of the Santiago garrison, had been asked by President Allende to help quell disorders in the province, and Chileans were not used to hearing threats from their generals. After a brief state of emergency the situation was resolved without bloodshed, and Pinochet went back to his barracks. But not, as it turned out, to stay. Named commander in chief of the army only three weeks ago, the powerfully built infantry officer, 57, last week presided over the coup as head of a four-man military junta...
Only Routine? Both Nixon and Agnew appeared to have made unusual preparations for the encounter, their first since Aug. 7. Agnew made a flight to New York on Thursday to consult there with his lawyers, the prestigious firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and then flew back to Washington. As for Nixon, he was reported to have talked over the Agnew situation recently with a number of associates, including Herbert Brownell, who was President Eisenhower's Attorney General (Brownell later denied that the Vice President had been discussed), and John Connally, the former Treasury Secretary whom Nixon once...
...rebels rapidly captured the airport, radio station and central bank without firing a shot. Ma headed for the airport, where he and three other pilots commandeered T-28 propeller-driven fighters, which they used to bomb and strafe the army's Chainimo garrison just outside the city...
Cuba. Twenty years ago yesterday, a Cuban lawyer and an Argentinian doctor led a ragged band of 86 freedom fighters in an attack on a fortress in dictator Fulgencio Batista's Cuba. Fidel Castro and Che Guevara lost the battle for the Moncada garrison, and both were imprisoned for some time. Six years later, they led their small guerrilla army into Havana and began to implement a socialist revolution...