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Then, suddenly, there was. Prager and Rubinger, along with some 150 other newsmen, were asleep at Nicosia's posh Ledra Palace Hotel when the Turkish attack began. They awoke to the sound of gunfire and could see paratroopers dotting the skies. A bazooka shell hit the hotel, killing two Greek soldiers. Power at the Ledra was cut off, and reporters were unable to file their stories. Prager managed to phone Marmon at Efty's apartment to convey eyewitness accounts of the fighting. Marmon, in turn, though periodically distracted by "soldiers with a weird assortment of weapons drifting into...
Still more evidence?15 volumes in all?poured from the House Judiciary Committee last week, covering the far-flung aspects of the impeachment proceedings. The evidence documented the misuse of the IRS to intimidate political opponents, the widespread surveillance of Government officials and newsmen and the raising of milk prices after the promise of a $2 million campaign contribution from dairymen. But the President seemed to be cleared of charges that he had forced a settlement of an antitrust suit against ITT in return for a pledge of up to $400,000 contribution to the G.O.P. National Convention. He tried...
...defense brief handled other allegations against the President in far less detail. Dismissing charges that Nixon had violated the Fourth Amendment's protection of individual privacy by ordering wiretaps on Government officials and newsmen between May 1969 and February 1971, it argued that the taps were then perfectly legal and were justified by interests of national security. If Nixon had not called for such wiretaps to plug leaks from the National Security Council, St. Clair argued, "he would have failed in his constitutional responsibilities...
...DOES HE VIEW THE PRESS? Admitting that many newsmen had acted responsibly, Nixon added that he knew some White House correspondents "hate my guts with a passion. The point is that if I were basically a liberal by their standards, if I had bugged out of Viet Nam, which they wanted, Watergate would have been a blip. They wouldn't have cared, but it is because I have not gone down the line with them that they care...
Sampson, in his single public appearance as President before the Turkish invasion, met foreign newsmen in Nicosia to charge Makarios with torturing Cypriots and display some of the archbishop's weapons and "victims...