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...Special Watergate Prosecutor Leon Jaworski...
Solemn assurances have a way of evaporating under pressure in Richard Nixon's White House, as Prosecutor Jaworski discovered to his dismay last week. With Nixon pursuing yet another twist in his survival strategy;this time one of delay and resistance to continuing demands for Watergate evidence -a new clash loomed between President and prosecutor. Echoing Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor Nixon had fired last October for refusing to desist from pursuing presidential evidence, Jaworski said that he will not hesitate to go into court to get whatever White House documents and tapes he considers vital to his investigation...
Another development last week heightened the controversy over the tapes. TIME has learned that Nixon's chief Watergate counsel, James St. Clair, initiated a meeting with Judge Sirica and the Jaworski staff. The reason: to chal lenge the findings of the jointly selected panel of experts that an 18-minute era sure in one tape had, in effect, been made deliberately. In doing so, St. Clair argued that these experts should not be permitted to examine the other tapes given to the court as originally agreed by both sides. Sirica withheld judgment on whether the experts should proceed...
...office of Special Watergate Prosecutor Leon Jaworski will have spent at least $2.8 million by July 1. Jaworski (salary: $38,000) employs a staff of 80, including 38 attorneys. The three Watergate grand juries have cost more than...
...there any end in sight for these fees. This month Jaworski's grand juries are expected to hand down more indictments, setting up more trials and the prospect of appeals that could stretch on indefinitely. The last bill of the Watergate account will not be stamped PAID for a long, long time to come...