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...awaiting sentencing for his confession of guilt on conspiracy to obstruct justice in the Watergate coverup. Moreover, they were unsettled by the fact that he admitted under cross-examination that he hoped his performance at the Mitchell-Stans trial would be noted by the judge who would mete out his punishment. Clarence Brown, a postal employee, expressed his fellow jurors' feelings: "I liked John Dean. I didn't fully believe him, though. He was a man trying to save his own skin...
...open admissions college, firing Horovitz for lying about paper credentials is especially ludicrous. The ridiculousness of the situation is compounded considering the chancellor of the university knew Horovitz had no undergraduate degree, and granted special permission for him to enter the doctoral program. Were CCNY to act sensibly and mete out a minor punishment to Horovitz, the whole incident would disappear; as it is, the stain on Horovitz is being transferred to City College. That university is out of whack with itself...
...object of the exercise was less to mete out justice than to pressure the Bonn government into cracking down on the flourishing business of helping East Germans, principally highly trained professionals like doctors and engineers, to escape to the West. Stiff jail sentences were part of the message. One of the accused, a West Berlin seaman named Karl-Heinz Hetzschold, 30, got 11½ years for damaging East German interests and illegal profiteering. The lightest sentence was seven years for long-haired Hans-Dieter Voss...
...MITCHELL was a stout and placyd type, Ful byg he was, and suckyn on hys pype. "The Whyt Hous Horrors had not my accorde, But all was mete to reelect Milord...
...Despite Chicago's formidable levels of noise, the citywide crusade for quiet is off to a good start. Environmental officers have swarmed through business and residential areas, recording violations on sensitive decibel meters. Offenders are sent to face judges who can mete out penalties as high as $500 plus six months in jail. As a result of the crackdown, residents are already beginning to notice small but audible changes. Car-pool drivers, instead of impatiently honking their horns, now wait silently for tardy passengers. The once clangorous chimes of St. Peter's United Church of Christ...