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...That Fitzsimmons described a secret meeting between himself and President Richard Nixon in the White House in late 1972. At that session, the President allegedly summoned Attorney General Richard Kleindienst* and personally ordered him to make sure that Government investigations of the Teamsters then in progress did not harm Fitzsimmons or his allies. If true, this story could have formed the basis for an additional charge of obstruction of justice in the eventual impeachment proceedings against Nixon, but Watergate investigators apparently never heard the tale. The IRS did convey the agents' reports about the alleged meeting to the Department...
...most of the losses concentrated at an altitude of about 25 miles. Though Heath acknowledged that his findings could not be tied directly to the chemicals, he pointed out that there is a suggestive link: calculations have shown that if chlorofluorocarbons were, in fact, damaging atmospheric ozone, the greatest harm would probably occur at about 25 miles...
...commission's final report is due next year. Along with specific recommendations on how to make amends, the commission will address a larger, more important issue: making sure that due process is not stampeded again. Exclusion from the law causes deep and lasting personal harm. Many of the Japanese-American internees were able to speak of their pain and bitterness only at the prompting of their children, who were raised during the decades when the civil rights movements vastly enlarged our understanding of democracy. Poignantly, Dr. Oda explained why it had taken so long: "I did not want...
Skinner said, however, that tenants would he able to buy their apartments if the law was eventually overturned, and hence would not suffer "irreparable harm" if an injunction was not denied. Rosenfeld had argued that property owners would suffer economic harm if the law was in effect even a short period of time...
Arguing against the injunction request, city lawyer Stephen Deutsch said any delay in enforcing the amendments would "seriously harm the public interest" by allowing landlords to harass tenants into buying their apartments. "The city council has determined that this would not serve the public interest," Deutsch added