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...other grand juries have yet to report on such Watergate-related situations as the clandestine operations of the White House plumbers, the President's dealings with ITT and milk producers, and possible campaign-funding violations by Nixon's political moneymen. Any of these juries could produce more indictments that would give new impetus to the impeachment sentiment in Congress. Indictments may be handed up this week in the plumbers' case. Said one Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee, "Impeachment is most likely to come in the area of obstruction of justice ? the tape erasures, the possibility that...
...jittery Western financiers, the huge cash surpluses built up by the Arab oil-producing nations look like a Khan-jar (Arab dagger) poised at the heart of international monetary stability. By shifting their funds from one currency to another, some moneymen fear, the sheiks could precipitate an unending round of monetary crises. Two weeks ago, it appeared for a moment that the Arabs had decided to unleash just such a monetary offensive. When highly exaggerated word that the Economic Council of the Arab League had voted to withdraw the estimated $10 billion that Arab nations have on deposit...
...looking into a wide variety of other reported criminal acts. They range from "dirty tricks" allegedly committed in behalf of candidates of both parties to various allegations of perjury. Yet the central thrust seems directed at the all but endless amounts of cash raised by Nixon's moneymen during the last three biennial elections-some $60 million for the 1972 race alone...
Free to Haggle. With the pressure relaxed, moneymen feel free to haggle -and haggle they are assuredly doing...
...Witteveen's predecessor, Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, a Frenchman, because U.S. officials felt that he had taken sides against the U.S. The monetary atmosphere, however, is becoming less testy. Last week an IMF committee representing 20 nations made much progress toward a consensus on outlines of a reformed system. Moneymen are optimistic that a written agreement on the bases of a new system can be approved at the IMF annual meeting next month...