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...night, I would release the June 23 tape and see the reaction to it. If it was as bad as I expected then we could resume the countdown toward resignation. If by some miracle the reaction was not so bad and there was any chance that I could actually govern during a six months' trial in the Senate, then we could examine the forlorn option one more time. In a subconscious way I knew that resignation was inevitable. But more than once over the next days I would yield to my desire to fight, and I would bridle...
...Chilean junta, Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Moffitt draws a parallel between the Chilean coverage of this investigation and the American press coverage of Watergate; he says that Pinochet's enemies are using this scandal to force him out of office, in the same way Americans said that Nixon couldn't govern the country amidst the Watergate revelations. He adds that an official in the State Department said two weeks ago that, "Pinochet's days are numbered clearly; that he'll never last the assassination investigations...
...prostitution was "the dark underground vault over which rose the gorgeous structure of middle class society with its faultless radiant facade." Similarly in the story of Measure for Measure lechery runs rampant in Vienna. The Duke of the city pretends to leave, deputizing an icily moral Lord Angelo to govern in his place. The Duke hopes prostitution will be curbed this way. Angelo, true to form, immediately shuts the whorehouses, and condemns a man to death for fornication. But Claudio, the accused, has been living unmarried with his loving, contracted fiance only until her dowry can be arranged. Their union...
Either result would be a personally damaging defeat for President Carter, already beset by worsening inflation and spreading doubts about his ability to govern effectively. Sharply aware of those doubts, Carter decided on a trip of his own last weekend?to Camp David for a summit session with his key advisers on ways to rechart the course of his Administration...
Peter J. Ferrara '76, a spokesman for the HLA, said last night the association is a student group that believes all individuals have the right to govern their own lives in any way they choose...