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Nixon's position on the Cox firing was further undermined last week by Federal Judge Gerhard A. Gesell, who ruled flatly that the dismissal was "in clear violation of an existing Justice Department regulation having the force of law and was therefore illegal." Acting Attorney General Robert H. Bork, following Nixon's orders, had abolished the special prosecutor's post, ruled Gesell, as "simply a ruse to permit the discharge of Mr. Cox." This was demonstrated, he wrote, by the prompt recreation of the post. The judge said there was no need to take action to reinstate...
...campaign histories, represented this season by a capable but rather specialized volume, Nazi Victory: Crete 1941. And of course, one genuine clunker, priced at $6.95, from Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. Called Hitler's Last Days, it is the brief but mesmerizingly dull memoir of a minor staff officer named Gerhard Boldt, who, as it turns out, constructs Hitler's very last days from already published sources-since he was not there...
...Died. Gerhard Küntscher, 72, German surgeon who in 1939 developed a novel means of setting bone fractures; of a heart attack; in Glücksburg, West Germany. Küntscher's innovation was to drill a hole lengthwise into each section of a broken bone, then insert a metal pin to join the break. The stability of the pin led to quicker recovery, and after winning adherents during World War II, the technique has been widely adopted by orthopedic surgeons, particularly for athletes, who break bones often and whose speedy recovery may be vital to a team...
...District Court Judge Gerhard A. Gesell awarded the first civil damages from the litigation-a total of $9,000 in damages and legal fees to two Labor Department employees who were caught in the dragnet. The city government, which must pay the damages, argued that the mass arrests were justified by an emergency situation, but Judge Gesell declared: "The constitutional protections that are available to citizens of this country are protections which must be zealously safeguarded, and the appropriate time to safeguard them particularly is in times of stress and strain...
Pointing out that the act had embodied a disconnected series of earlier civil service rulings, Judge Gerhard Gesell said that it had been used to cover even a person who bet on an election, who drunkenly criticized a political party, or who failed to discourage a spouse's political activity. Gesell conceded that there was an "obvious, well-established governmental interest" in some restriction on civil servants' political activity, a clear hint that a more narrowly drawn law might be permissible. The current law remains in effect, however, pending an appeal to the Supreme Court. Thus the nation...