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...appoint a new prosecutor, he summoned Haig and two of his counsel, J. Fred Buzhardt and Len Garment, to the Oval Office. The discussion, said Haig, was "very painful and anguishing." Confronted with the enormous public demand for impeachment, the President reversed field. He told Buzhardt to instruct Nixon's top tapes counsel, University of Texas Law Professor Charles Alan Wright, to inform Judge Sirica that he would comply with the judge's decision and turn over the tapes...
Died. Mary Wigman, 86, German pioneer of modern dance; in West Berlin. Wigman vowed to end her career as a dancer at its height, and in 1942 she did. But she continued to instruct dancers at the school she founded in Berlin after her escape from East Germany...
...player to eat dirt or nails or manure, and he does it with the meniality of an army private at the feet of an impenetrable and grizzled sergeant-bastard-god-the-father. Ralph Goldston, who was without a doubt the earthiest most graphic and explicit person ever to instruct a Harvard athlete, who found that Cambridge was a nice place to visit but however to begin, to continue, or ever to consider coaching at. Goldston, a man who never fit into the black atmosphere, who never wanted to create, not tried, nor even recognized the "brother" kinship of blacks...
...Arthur Ashe, Cliff Richey and Stan Smith, decided that it had to stand on its own. After a three-hour meeting in London's Westbury Hotel, Drysdale announced: "This is the saddest statement I have ever had to make, but we feel we have no choice but to instruct our members to withdraw." After another meeting-which A.T.P. Executive Director Jack Kramer characterized as "wrestling with our conscience"-the decision was reaffirmed. At week's end, at least 75 of the men players were planning to honor the boycott. Rumania's Hie Nastase...
Both Ehrlichman and Haldeman responded to the second allegation being investigated by the subcommittee - the attempt to use the CIA in the Watergate cover-up - by insisting that that had not been their intention. They readily admitted that they did instruct CIA Deputy Director Vernon Walters to warn Gray that his agency's Watergate investigation might blow the cover of CIA operatives. But they claimed they did so at the specific request of President Nixon, and for legitimate reasons. Picking up the President's national-security theme, Ehrlichman said that "such questions had to be asked and answered...