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...courts. The papers Cox wanted included White House reports and memorandums on the Watergate breakin, the ITT affair, campaign contributions, and operations by the White House plumbers; they were first asked for by Cox last July, five months ago. Soon after he took over from Cox, Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski asked for the same documents and gave the White House ten days to supply them. When the deadline passed last week with no word from Nixon or his aides, Jaworski fired off a tough second letter, and he may well go to court if it produces no response this week...
...Veniste and not the new Special Prosecutor, Leon Jaworski, who has been handling the courtroom duels with the White House lawyers over Watergate. During his three weeks on the job, Jaworski has been content to give plenty of leeway to the staff of 80 people, including 38 lawyers, that he inherited from Archibald Cox. In fact, the staff has become an important force on its own in the struggle to get to the bottom of Watergate. Several key members are determined to quit if Jaworski does not continue to press ahead with the investigation...
...chief of staff under Cox and now Jaworski is sandy-haired, soft-spoken Deputy Special Prosecutor Henry S. ("Hank") Ruth Jr., 42. A product of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, he has had more than a dozen years of experience in law enforcement. Among his previous jobs, he served as an investigator of organized crime for Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department, headed the Nixon Administration's National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, and directed New York Mayor John Lindsay's Criminal Justice Coordinating Council...
...night that Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox was fired, his senior aides stripped all personal pictures from their office walls. They thought that their investigation had ended and that they would soon be evicted. Even after Leon Jaworski was appointed special prosecutor, the pictures stayed down. Last week they were back-an eloquent sign that he has been accepted by the men and women that Cox left behind. Nor has Jaworski been disappointed in the staff he inherited. He declares: "These are people of unusual caliber...
...weeks into his job, Jaworski last week talked with TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey. Questions and answers...