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Trial Balloon. It is a measure of the hopelessness of his position in the House that Nixon mulled the idea over and directed speechwriter Patrick J. Buchanan to loft it as a trial balloon at a breakfast with newsmen. Buchanan obliged, but within hours both the Democratic and Republican leaders in the House made it clear that they would not permit the constitutional proceedings to be short-circuited. Before the end of the day, Buchanan punctured the proposal for good. "The only real advantage was to Republican members of the House," he said, "but they're going to have...
...officials, relatives of hostages and newsmen gathered in the yard below the library, the convicts staged a grim spectacle. One by one, like mannequins in a display window, the hostages were periodically pressed against the library's glass doors. In the event of an attack, they would be directly in the line of fire. Their captors, in fact, were no strangers to killing. They were all serving time for murder or assault to murder. Their leader, Fred Gomez Carrasco, 34, who had been injured in a shootout with police, was a lifer suspected of killing dozens of people...
Unblinking Coverage. The same could not be said for newsmen from ABC, which drew the Wednesday session under the networks' rotating-coverage plan (only the Public Broadcasting Service carried every meeting). When the committee was slow to reconvene after a bomb threat, Co-Anchor Man Howard K. Smith quipped unfunnily that the Representatives could "use a good TV director." At the end of the session, Smith concluded that he "would hate to spend three hours a night, 365 days a year" watching congressional committees in action-a bit of instant disparagement that seemed totally out of place...
...carping disappeared on succeeding days. CBS Newsmen Walter Cronkite, Bruce Morton and Mudd kept largely out of sight while committee members concluded their opening statements on Thursday. NBC's John Chancellor and Carl Stern (a law-school graduate) helped clarify Friday's complex procedural wrangles as the committee hammered out acceptable articles of impeachment. Sessions were not interrupted by commercials (a condition decreed by the House); interviews in the meeting room were forbidden. PBS conducted scholarly post-mortems on each session, drawing on outside experts and a battery of law professors...
...continued to shell the hotel roof intermittently. None of the hundreds of journalists and guests crowding into the lower floors were injured by the Turkish firing. Later, when the Greeks removed their guns from the hotel and withdrew to the patio, they were loudly cheered by the much relieved newsmen and guests...