Word: marstons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PRESIDENT CARTER'S DECISION to fire David W. Marston, the Republican U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia, reeks of more than just political patronage and forgotten campaign promises. It is one in a series of White House faux pas that produce indignation on the part of all Americans regardless of where they fall on the political spectrum. As one observer of Philadelphia politics told a national magazine last week, "It's frightening. He (Carter) doesn't even know what's going on here--and he's supposed to be dealing with the Russians and the Chinese...
...Marston Case...
...removal of U.S. Attorney David Marston [Jan. 23] clearly reveals that campaign promises mean very little, even those made by President Carter...
...Attorney General Bell have crossed the Rubicon as far as Marston is concerned, but the new U.S. Attorney "of merit" in Philadelphia had better follow through on the investigations of local politicians now serving in Congress...
Thanks to the Administration's ineptness, a martyr's image has been created for Marston, himself an outright political appointee who hunted headlines as vigorously as he hunted official corruption in both parties. Despite Marston's protests that the inquiry into Philadelphia-area wrongdoing may be sabotaged by his ouster, the whole brouhaha almost certainly guarantees forceful pursuit of the probe to its end. That assignment will be carried out by Assistant U.S. Attorney Alan Lieberman, who did most of Marston's actual courtroom work, and hard-driving FBI Agent Neil Welch, who is rated...