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...Howard Hunt, 63, White House leak-plugging plumber who helped plan burglary and bugging of Democratic National Committee headquarters at Watergate complex. Pleaded guilty. Served 33 months in prison. Released in February 1977. Has cleared his debts (including $387,000 in legal fees), partly by writing novels. Of 56 books he has written, his autobiography, Undercover, "did the least well," he says. Hunt's first wife died in 1972 plane crash. He has remarried. Last year he won $650,000 libel suit against right-wing Liberty Lobby, which had falsely linked him to John Kennedy's assassination...
...Gordon Liddy, 51, Hunt's partner and co-leader of burglary team. Privately took blame for botched job, volunteered to be shot. Refused to cooperate with prosecutors, thus spent more time in prison (52 months) than any other Watergate figure. His 1980 autobiography, Will, was bestseller (125,000 hard-cover copies). Popular on college lecture circuit, where he gets $4,500 per appearance. Lives with wife in Fort Washington, Md. Works as consultant to corporations on how to protect industrial secrets...
Some local school officials see advantages to the block grants, but are concerned over the attrition in funds. "You have more discretion, before they told you what to do," says Martin Hunt. Boston's senior coordinator for external grants, adding that "our concern is that with the move to reduce funding, [the question will be] discretion over what...
...they do now but the major cuts came last year, when the city lost most of their federal funding for desegration and other programs, that came under the 1965 Secondary School Emergency Aid Act. Added to reductions in income from local taxes resulting from Proposition 2 1/2, "that hurts," Hunt says. School officials are uncertain what impact the block grants will have as that area of the 1983-84 budget has not yet been dealt with. They represent a "relatively small piece, but are important because they are a step in a certain direction. "They will not affect the racial...
Once the British had repossessed the Falklands, they would not feel bound by any understandings reached with the Argentines before the talks broke down. The affairs of the islands would be run not by any international body but by Rex Hunt, who would be returned to his post as governor. The British also intend to keep a garrison, initially of about 3,000 troops, on the Falklands indefinitely and to lengthen the runway at Port Stanley so that it could handle high-speed, longer-range jets such as Phantom multirole fighters and Buccaneer strike aircraft. If the need ever arose...