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...committee would concentrate on them in hopes of finishing that part of its investigation and issuing a report by mid-July. Last week, however, the committee was stymied temporarily when Robert Maheu, a former associate of reclusive Billionaire Howard Hughes, refused to answer questions about his role as a liaison between the CIA and organized crime figures in an alleged plot to assassinate Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro. The committee has voted to try to get Maheu to testify by granting him limited immunity from prosecution. CIA schemes to do away with Castro sometimes reached bizarre proportions. TIME learned last week...
...explained by Presidential Counsel Philip Buchen, the White House liaison with the commission, the members found that the study of the assassinations "was almost a bottomless subject. If they were to go into the whole thing, it would have taken more time and resources than they had." The group could have asked for an extension and a larger staff, but the members clearly had no stomach for digging deeper into those affairs of the CIA. On Monday afternoon, four days before the report was delivered, the commission voted unanimously not to include any material on the foreign assassinations. However...
Returned Notes. Ford also instructed Kissinger to request the People's Republic of China to help persuade the Cambodians to release the crew and ship. Later in the day, Deputy Secretary of State Robert Ingersoll asked Huang Chen, head of the Chinese liaison office in Washington, to transmit a note to the Cambodians, demanding immediate release. George Bush...
...chief of the U.S. liaison office in Peking, interrupted a picnic at the Ming tombs outside the city to deliver a similar message to Chinese authorities. Next day, the Chinese returned the notes, signifying that they would not accept them...
...Donald Rumsfeld, White House chief of staff. Rumsfeld might be reluctant to give up his powerful post for the rigors of managing a tough campaign, but if he thought the President was in serious danger of losing, he would probably make the plunge. George Bush, chief of the U.S. liaison office hi Peking, has also been mentioned. An adroit U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations for two years, Bush won broad popularity within his party for the tact and loyalty he demonstrated as national chairman in the worst days of Watergate. A third candidate is Herman, who won his organizational...