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After the anguished and uncertain spring and summer of Watergate, there was something deceptively reassuring in the return to the familiar rhythms of September. For President, Vice President, for the nation, there was as yet no real surcease of crises; all the grave questions were yet to be satisfactorily answered and trust was yet to be restored. But the true American new year begins each autumn with the end of vacations, the recall to jobs and schools, fresh starts on the ordinary business of life, the re sumption of friendly routines...
Allende immediately recognized that he faced the worst crisis of his stormy three-year presidency. An hour before the military's ultimatum, he telephoned his wife Hortensia at their villa. "I'm calling from La Moneda," he told her. "The situation has become very grave. The navy has revolted and I am going to stay here." Allende was right. Even before the junta's troops surrounded the palace, the navy had announced that it had taken over and sealed off the port city of Valparaiso, 75 miles away. Marines from Valparaiso were advancing on the capital...
...wrath against the great scientist. Soviet threats that Sakharov might be brought to trial for his bold criticism of totalitarian conditions in the U.S.S.R. and the increasing repression of dissidents (TIME, Sept. 17) moved Western chiefs of state, foreign ministers, and scientists to public indignation. Their words carried a grave undertone of menace to the Soviet Union's hopes for economic cooperation with the West...
Last week such a compromise on the grave issue of the President's Watergate tapes and documents was suggested by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. White House lawyers were arguing that the President−because he was President−had the unlimited right to decide whether or not the tapes and papers should be given to a grand jury as requested. Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox was claiming that the President's powers were limited by the fact that the tapes were needed for criminal investigations, and no citizen could refuse such a request...
With the perquisites of the presidency and grave questions of separation of powers at stake, the seven sitting justices took the step, unusual in a criminal proceeding, of recommending an out-of-court settlement. They proposed that the President or his delegate should go over the tapes with Cox and White House Attorney Charles Alan Wright and decide what material should go to the grand jury. That way no one's principles would be surrendered. However, if no agreement was possible, the court said, it would make a ruling on the case, one that would certainly be appealed...