Word: jaworskis
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...Tough. To replace retiring Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, Attorney General William Saxbe after consultation with President Ford appointed Henry S. (Hank) Ruth Jr. A quiet, almost shy, former Philadelphia lawyer, Ruth, 43, has spent more than 15 months as the top deputy to both Jaworski and the first Special Prosecutor, Archibald Cox. Thoroughly familiar with all of the staffs pending investigations, the soft-voiced Ruth is seen to be as tough as Jaworski, but endowed with some of Cox's scholarly attributes. He taught law at the University of Pennsylvania after serving in Attorney General Robert Kennedy...
This week TIME'S Nation section carries two wide-ranging interviews, one with Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, the other with Vice President-Designate Nelson Rockefeller. The World section contains an extended interview with Constantino Caramanlis -one of the first that Greece's Premier has given to an American journalist since the military junta resigned under pressure last July. In recent weeks TIME has run interviews with a host of world figures, including Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat and Polish Communist Party...
...Ehrlichman's attorney, William Prates, as one who had "deceived, misled and lied." With three of the defendants turning against each other, and two assailing Nixon, the basic details of Nixon's role seem certain to emerge-just as predicted by the retiring Special Prosecutor, Leon Jaworski (see box following page...
...prepared to return to private law practice in Houston, Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski last week talked with TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey about the accomplishments of eleven months spent investigating the Watergate scandal. Highlights of the interview...
...time of the pardon, Ford gave the former President control over the tapes and related documents. Tradition, said Ford, made them Nixon's property, a view that is now being sharply challenged (TIME, Sept. 30). When Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski protested that he needed access to the materials, the White House temporarily suspended the agreement. In recent weeks, Ford's and Nixon's lawyers have tried to reach a new agreement on how the tapes should be handled, but to no avail. On the day of last week's hearing, Nixon went to court...