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...Judge Hubert Pinsseau has finally dismissed the case, not because of the government's obstruction but because he concluded that no wrong had been done. The Canard had no right to privacy, Judge Pinsseau ruled, because the privacy law covers only private residences. Furthermore, he noted, the intruders had never actually finished installing their bugs. Even if the editors had been at work and even if someone had listened in on them, he declared, there could be no invasion of privacy because journalists "cannot and in principle could not conduct in their professional offices conversations of anything other than...
Surprisingly, Byrd received strong support in his campaign for the post not only from conservative Southern Democrats, but from liberals who might more naturally have been expected to support Byrd's challenger, Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.). In fact, so widespread was the liberal defection to Byrd that Humphrey, recognizing he had no chance of winning, withdrew. Two days later, however, Humphrey received a consolation prize--he was made deputy president pro tem of the Senate, garnering a $7500 pay increase, a limousine, a larger office, and no new formal responsibilities...
...Virginia who is shadowed by past membership in the Ku Klux Klan, v. an exuberant former Vice President who is esteemed as an elder statesman of the Democratic Party. Yet the heavy betting favorite is shrewd Robert C. Byrd, 58, and not Minnesota's liberal crusader, 65-year-old Hubert Humphrey...
...hopes to pick up the ten votes he needsthat Byrd is acceptable to labor. He wasn't about to go against a sure winner." Humphrey's health also worries Senators, who wonder whether he will have the vitality for the job after undergoing removal of his cancerous bladder. Says Hubert, who insists that he has been advised he is healthy enough: "I prefer to rely on my doctors for medical opinions." What apparently reassures some liberals who distrust Byrd is that Jimmy Carter will be calling most of the shots for the majority leader and the new whip?California...
Actually, the Woodstein of Koreagate is no stranger to Page One. Last year Cheshire won a wall full of journalism awards for her disclosures that Pat Nixon, Hubert Humphrey and lesser public figures had kept millions of dollars' worth of gifts from foreign governments, in violation of a 1966 statute. A few years earlier, Cheshire investigated the $1 million worth of antiques donated by wealthy Americans to help Jacqueline Kennedy refurbish the White House: to Jackie's embarrassment, a seven-article series listed the age, origin, donor and occasionally dubious value of each piece. That prying brought...