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When their editors first suggested that Washington Post Reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward team up on the Watergate story, neither exactly danced on the city desk. The dissimilarities of the two junior reporters boded a stormy working partnership. To Bernstein, 30, a University of Maryland dropout, Woodward was a smooth Yalie who drove a 1970 Karmann-Ghia and smelled of ivied clubs. To Woodward, also 30, the shaggy Bernstein symbolized one of those unseemly counterculture journalists. But when they accepted the Pulitzer Prize in May 1973 for their pioneering probe of the Watergate scandal, it was obvious that...
...alert salesman senses the moment of truth when prospective buyers wish to be alone to discuss the price, and he discreetly leaves the room. The FBI, in raids on two suburban Baltimore dealerships, has discovered that such private dickering is sometimes not so private. In at least two Maryland dealerships, unsuspecting buyers have talked about their bottom-line position in illegally bugged conference rooms...
...raided dealerships customarily carried off the ruse with alarming ease: a salesman would step outside at the propitious moment, listen at a monitoring panel in a nearby office until his customers arrived at the figure they could afford, then return to clinch the deal. Several Maryland electronics-company salesmen have said that the practice is widespread. One firm has in stalled in auto dealerships throughout the state at least 100 intercom systems that can easily be converted into bugs...
Nixon has tried to make fast his slipping anchor on the right. He scuttled a land-use bill in Congress, opposed big subsidies for mass transit and proposed amendments to weaken a consumer-protection bill. But conservatives regard such shifts as being too little and too late. Says Maryland Congressman Robert Bauman: "After five years of losing initiative a change at the last minute to win back our support isn't going to help." So much criticism of Nixon was voiced at a conference of conservatives in Washington last January that Presidential Assistant Patrick Buchanan rather defensively asserted...
...White House attack seemed to unify the committee?against the President. "It is not the White House's job to tell the committee how to discharge its constitutional function," declared Maryland Republican Lawrence J. Hogan, until now one of Nixon's strong defenders on the committee. "The President's lawyer was off base when he stated the committee should first define an impeachable offense?there is no set definition. Each member will have to subjectively determine this in his own mind." Hogan contended that Nixon was getting "bum advice" and was in danger of losing those on the committee...