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Udall believes that his Southwest upbringing will be a campaign asset. Mo's grandfather David King was a Mormon pioneer who moved from Utah to Arizona in 1880. Mo's father Levi became chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court and created a political base for his family that now rivals the power of the Goldwater clan...
...number of other states are also moving toward liberalizing the laws on personal pot use, and Attorney General Edward Levi has suggested that the Justice Department may recommend at least a drastic reduction in the federal criminal penalties. Buying a pack of joints at the corner grocery may still be years - or decades - away. But right now the hardfisted prohibition of pot is gradually loosening...
...pursuit of the CIA continued on other fronts in Washington last week. Declaring he was "shocked" by the revelations in the Rockefeller report, Attorney General Edward H. Levi ordered a study that could lead to the prosecution of CIA officials for violating the agency's tight restrictions on activities in the U.S. The CIA'S domestic excesses were also foremost in the mind of Congresswoman Bella Abzug when she convened her Subcommittee on Government Information and Individual Rights and called CIA Director William Colby to the chair. Suffering coolly and patiently, Colby endured 5% hours of excoriation...
...commission found "nothing to indicate that the CIA abused the function." Nonetheless, the report strongly criticized the Justice Department for having illegally "abdicated its statutory duties" in relinquishing the authority to prosecute American spooks and the CIA for getting involved "directly in forbidden law-enforcement activities." Attorney General Edward Levi ended the agreement last January soon after learning about it. Aides reported that he is prepared to prosecute, where it is warranted, CIA employees and agents for any crimes committed while the agreement was in force, though the statute of limitations for most cases expired...
Daly said that he thought the University of Chicago would be "very very lucks to get [Wilson] because he is a person of a quality to match Ed Levi and that is a very high quality indeed...