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More Disliked. Colson's troubles are not likely to sadden his former White House colleagues. He was probably more disliked, as well as feared, than any other White House aide. Even that awesome guardian of the Oval Office, H.R. Haldeman, was one of Colson's harshest critics. He once complained to a subordinate that "Colson is always doing things behind my back." Explains another former aide: "Haldeman had no control over Colson. He detested him, but he couldn't do anything. John Mitchell hated Colson too. With those two against you, you have to have something powerful...
California legislators voted last year to reduce marijuana possession to a misdemeanor, but Governor Ronald Reagan vetoed the bill. State law now offers a range of penalties for first-offense pot possession from probation to a ten-year jail term. The nation's harshest drug law is New York's, making life sentences mandatory for some hard-drug offenses but leaving marijuana possession punishable as either a misdemeanor or a felony. State police officials say that enforcement will be minimal against pot smokers. Prosecution of pushers in New York, as in all other states, will remain...
...Look. The SEC'S civil complaint asks that Westgate be put into the hands of a receiver and that Smith and Toft be barred from running any publicly owned companies-about the harshest penalty the SEC can ask for, since it cannot bring criminal charges. The IRS investigation, which could result in criminal prosecution, reportedly covers much of the same ground as the SEC complaint and also looks into the possibility that Smith-controlled firms made contributions to Nixon's 1972 campaign, in violation of federal laws that prohibit corporate political gifts...
...Woodward and Bernstein wrote that Presidential Aide H R. Haldeman had access to a secret campaign kitty used in part to fund political sabotage. Though other publications-principally TIME and the New York Times-kept up a steady rhythm of Watergate beats, Republican spokesmen reserved their harshest denunciations for the Post The paper appeared to have been caught in a serious gaffe when it reported that an important witness had established the Haldeman connection in testimony to a grand jury Such testimony was not given, though Bernstein and Woodward had obtained the information directly from the same person. Attacks...
...Kasler, the harshest treatment began on June 25, 1968. He was called before an interrogator nicknamed "Spot" (because he had a white spot on the right side of his head). "He was cordial. He asked me to sit down, gave me a cigarette, asked me about my family-I'd been allowed one letter at that point. He said he was trying to select a man to celebrate the downing of the 3,000th U.S. plane to tell the American people the truth about the war and appear on TV. I said I wasn...