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...private testimony, Dean claimed that Nixon knew of the cover-up "at least" as early as Sept. 15, 1972. That was the day the Watergate indictments were announced. They were limited to the low-level men arrested for the breakin. At this time, according to Dean, Nixon praised him, and Dean assumed this was because he had helped keep the investigation confined to those functionaries. About the same time, Dean said, the President ordered his staff to apply pressure to the House Banking and Currency Committee to abort its plans to hold Watergate hearings. The hearings were canceled when...
Nervously tonguing Life Savers, but seemingly assured in his devastating details, Magruder openly admitted that earlier he had repeatedly lied to the FBI, the Watergate grand jury, and at the Washington trial of low-level defendants, to keep the scandal from touching the White House. But now, apparently remorseful as well as trapped by the crumbling of the whole conspiracy, he seemed entirely credible as he implicated men close to Nixon. They included...
...racing, the syndicates that build the $33,000 space-age racing machines have reached a point where many drivers think they are sacrificing safety to attain speeds of 200 m.p.h. and more. Britain's David Hobbs described driving on the ancient, windswept Indy track as "the art of low-level aviation." A.J. Foyt, three-time Indy winner, does not share the peculiar machismo that causes some drivers to resist safety changes. "The speed in big-time racing today," Foyt says, "is so fast it scares...
Lull. The shooting did not noticeably subside until the government ordered rocket attacks by air on a Palestinian camp near the airport shortly before sunset on Thursday. Two Hunter jet fighter-bombers of the Lebanese air force made 14 low-level sweeps over the camp. It was the first time that Arab planes had bombed a Palestinian refugee camp. President Franjieh doubtless felt that the end justified his means. As smoke from the rockets rose over the camp, the ground fighting abruptly died down, not only in the camp area but, seemingly by coincidence, elsewhere as well. Soon after, another...
...person is going to be able to say that we whitewashed or dragged our feet on it." In fact, five months later only seven men had been brought to trial as a result of that investigation-the five directly involved in the break-in on June 17, plus a low-level White House consultant and a former White House staffer. Until recently, top officials in the Justice Department made little attempt to find out who had planned and approved the operation...