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...original trial of the Watergate burglars. It was Sirica who had protested that the whole truth had not been told in his courtroom. It was Sirica who broke open the case last spring by threatening maximum sentences but offering to review the penalties if the defendants talked-as James McCord eventually did. Now, after studying the lengthy briefs and arguments presented by Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox and White House Attorney Charles Alan Wright, Sirica knew that the eye of history...
...Baldwin was a very convenient fellow. He had a girl friend at the D.N.C., and he somehow came up with the floor plan of the D.N.C. headquarters. He was never checked out at all-McCord got him off a job-wanted list of former FBI agents. He didn't do his job; he didn't alert anybody about the police until they were running around the D.N.C. with their guns drawn...
...James W. McCord Jr., the conspirator who first started spilling the story of high officials' involvement, Hunt now portrays him as a bungler, "an electronic hitchhiker who shouldn't have been allowed on our operation...
...says the bugging apparatus that McCord had bought was faulty and secondhand, even though McCord billed Liddy for new equipment. While he was inside the Watergate, McCord turned down his walkie-talkie or turned it off, apparently to conserve batteries. "There were just too many things that went wrong for them all to be coincidence," says Hunt darkly...
Among the speakers scheduled to lecture this week are Henry B. Rothblatt, former attorney for five Watergate defendants, including James McCord; Edward Swartz, author of Toys That Kill; Paul D. Rheingold and Norman Landau, authors of the Environmental Law Handbook; and, Jerry S. Cohen, co-author of America...