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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apportioned . . Who gets the rest? Just about everybody" [Dec. 10]. You can say that again, only please add: including the press. Look at TIME during the past twelve months. How many pages about the impending energy crisis, how many about Watergate? While the house was on fire, you kept lamenting somebody's stealing the petty cash...
Those unusual fact-finding proceedings produced the bizarre testimony of Rose Mary Woods, Nixon's longtime personal secretary. She said she had inadvertently kept her left foot on the pedal of a tape recorder while stretching awkwardly behind her to answer a telephone call, at the same time mistakenly pushing the "record" button on the machine ?and thereby erasing perhaps five minutes (but not 18) of the taped conversation. Asked in Perry Mason-style by Jill Wine Volner, an Assistant Special Prosecutor, to re-enact this, Miss Woods reached for the imaginary phone?and lifted her left foot. Sirica...
Sirica then deferred sentencing McCord. But in the most controversial act in his entire handling of the Watergate affair, he also kept the pressure on the other convicted conspirators to talk too by giving them harsh provisional sentences ranging up to 40 years. He called their crimes "sordid, despicable and thoroughly reprehensible." He promised to review the sentences later and said that the final sentencing "would depend on your full cooperation with the grand jury and the Senate Select Committee. " Sirica's expressed purpose: "Some good can and should come from a revelation of sinister conduct whenever and wherever such...
Spotty bad weather that kept drivers home in some parts of the nation is a partial explanation, but the lower death rates seem to be due mostly to the energy crisis, which is making motorists drive more slowly and less frequently. N.S.C. statisticians now express hope that if shortages and higher gasoline prices reduce driving by 10%, and if new speed limits of 50 or 55 m.p.h. are widely obeyed, as many as 14,000 of the 56,000 U.S. deaths caused annually by auto accidents can be avoided...
...Soviets killed and imprisoned far more people than the Nazis did, excluding wartime casualties on both sides. He estimates that in any one year of the Stalin era, 12,000,000 people were held in prison. "As some departed beneath the sod," he adds, "the 'machine' kept bringing in replacements." He eloquently calls for punishment of all those responsible for such 'crimes against the Soviet people, noting that post-Hitler Germany has convicted more than 78,000 persons of brutality and murder. Post-Stalin Russia, however, has tried only two dozen of its former executioners...