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...jury took only 90 minutes last week to convict the two remaining defendants (the other five had pleaded guilty). The convicted pair: James W. McCord, 53, former CIA official and security coordinator for the Committee for the Re-Election of the President; and G. Gordon Liddy, 42, finance counsel to the C.R.P. Jailed on $100,000 bond, they face, respectively, up to 45 and 35 years in prison. But if the jury did indeed wonder who told them to bug the Democratic Party headquarters, that wonder remained unsatisfied...
...lawyers for the other defendants and the defendants themselves in and out of court offered their own implausible variety of motives: E. Howard Hunt implied that he had joined the operation because he feared that a liberal Democratic President might weaken U.S. policy toward Communism (TIME, Jan. 29); McCord had joined because he believed that the bugging might intercept some nefarious plot against the Republicans planned by a left-wing group; and the four other defendants had become involved because Hunt, their former boss during the Cuban invasion, told them it was part of the fight against Communism and Cuba...
Sirica's overall behavior was such that defense lawyers for both McCord and Liddy announced that they would use it as a basis for appealing the verdict. That hardly chastened Sirica. As he stated during the trial, "I'm not awed by the appellate courts. Let's get that straight. All they can do is reverse me. They can't tell me how to run my case...
...five men arrested in the Watergate on June 17-James W. McCord, Bernard L. Barker, Eugenio R. Martinez, Frank A. Sturgis and Virgilio R. Gonzalez-were all charged with conspiring to break into the Democratic offices in order to plant bugs, tap telephones and intercept conversations. Also charged were G. Gordon Liddy, a onetime White House aide and former counsel to the Re-Election Committee's finance division, and E. Howard Hunt, a former White House consultant. The violations carry penalties of up to 34 years in prison and $80,000 in fines...
Baldwin had complained of boredom in guarding the Mitchells and was assigned by McCord, chief security coordinator for the Re-Election Committee, to monitor the bugs. For three weeks in May and June he typed the conversations and gave them to McCord, who converted them into memos that went, Baldwin contends, to the Re-Election Committee. Baldwin's own involvement became known because he had found the bugging, too, a bit boring, and for diversion had placed a call from the motel room to his home in West Haven, Conn. The motel kept a record of the call...