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...view of Dean, the White House fed some 50 questions to the staff of the Ervin committee-questions that Dean would presumably have difficulty handling. One of them, sprung on Dean in his private staff grilling, was whether he had used Nixon campaign funds to finance his honeymoon last fall. He conceded that he had-and this was promptly leaked to the press. Nixon associates also supplied the committee with a White House summary of conversations between Dean and Nixon that conflicted with Dean's account; this too was quickly conveyed to newsmen. Still apparently unwilling to abandon...
Personal Use. The week's most damaging development to Dean was his admission before the Ervin staff that he had taken $4,850 to finance his honeymoon from a leftover 1968 Nixon campaign fund of $ 15,200. He had been given the money to hold while determining whether there were any legal restrictions on its use in the 1972 campaign. According to one committee source, the question of whether Dean had taken the money was asked by Minority Counsel Thompson "out of the blue." Dean was said to have readily admitted using the money, placing either a personal I.O.U...
...brief political honeymoon that followed the election of Kakuei Tanaka, 54, as Premier of Japan is now clearly over. Last week, in the study of his official residence, an embattled but still cheerful Tanaka discussed some of the domestic and international challenges facing his Liberal-Democratic government with Time Inc. Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan and Tokyo Bureau Chief Herman Nickel. Excerpts...
...Common Market. After her marriage to Michael in Tullyodonnell, County Tyrone, Bernadette halted in the church graveyard and placed her fiery bridal bouquet of red carnations on the grave of an IRA officer who had been shot by the British army. Then the pair drove off on their honeymoon, leaving with a relative Roisin, Bernadette's 21-month-old daughter, whose father she has never named...
...have long represented drivers trucking grapes out of the packing houses to market. Chavez bitterly told a group of laborers that the agreements "weren't contracts, they were marriage licenses. Tomorrow you will see the growers and the Teamsters skipping hand in hand into the fields on their honeymoon." He called a strike that last week began spreading into Arizona and other areas of California, where Teamster organizers have also been at work. Violence has erupted as Chavez's migrants face burly Teamster "protectors" of workers who cross the picket lines. The $750,000 packing shed...