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Unwise, unethical and perhaps even illegal, Mitchell's failure to inform the President about the criminal and deceitful activities of his associates was nevertheless based on a plausible rationale. To give Nixon such knowledge, Mitchell argued, would either make the President a party to the cover-up or would cause him "to lower the boom" on all those involved and thereby expose their activities. This would lead the public to blame Nixon for the wrongdoing of his associates. It would hinder his re-election chances-and this would be "absolutely unfair and unjustified...
Last January the University Police began for the first time to publish weekly tabulations of thefts, assaults and other reported crimes throughout the University. They now send the report to over a hundred departments, officials and organizations in an effort to inform them of crime in the community. Eventually, the police hope to chart crime rates for successive years and comparable weeks during the years...
...Senators are not above using the networks for publicity, but they have been scrupulous about the witnesses' rights and privileges-within the fairly loose rules of a Senate hearing. The witnesses, whether genuinely innocent, regretful or simply anxious to avoid the ultimate penalties, are only too ready to inform the world of past transgressions. The result of all this has been a sense of assurance, a feeling that the country's temperature may yet return to normal...
...other. Brandt's dispirited C.D.U. opponents have enthusiastically embraced the Steiner affair as a means of discrediting the Chancellor. They have demanded that a Bundestag special investigatory committee, established last week, find out whether Brandt knew about the bribes and whether the internal security force deliberately failed to inform the C.D.U. that Steiner was giving information about the party to East Germany...
Last January the University Police began for the first time to publish weekly tabulations of thefts, assaults and other reported crimes throughout the University. They now send the report to over a hundred departments, officials and organizations in an effort to inform them of crime in the community. Eventually, the police hope to chart crime rates for successive years and comparable weeks during the years...