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...President's burst of initiative resulted from his growing conviction that the best defense against Watergate is an offense against not only the nation's problems but the two bodies that have given him the most trouble: Congress and the press. When he went before newsmen last week, he was more confident and commanding than in any other recent appearance. He still grew noticeably tense and uncomfortable when asked questions about Watergate or his personal finances, but it was clear that he has correctly sized up the press-conference format as one in which he holds the advantage...
...recent months, the White House has justified tapping the phones of 17 Government officials and newsmen on the grounds of national security. And the White House has excused the secret taping of conversations in the Oval Office, including those with visiting foreign dignitaries, on the theory that history demanded such a record...
...WIRE TAPS. Kissinger admitted that he had acquiesced in the White House tapping of the phones of 17 newsmen and officials, including some of his own staffers. At the time, Kissinger recalled, the White House was deeply concerned about leaks to reporters of National Security Council material. Justifying his involvement in the tapping, Kissinger sounded much like some of the Watergate characters. The "painful but necessary" process, he said, had been approved by the President, the then Attorney General (John Mitchell) and the FBI director (J. Edgar Hoover). "I had been in the Government only four months, and it didn...
Last week Yakir was paraded before 300 foreign and Russian newsmen for an extraordinarily confessional press conference at Moscow's Journalists' Club. Looking remarkably fit despite 15 months of pretrail detention and interrogation, the leonine-headed dissident recited a prepared statement in a monotone while smoking Bulgarian cigarettes and sipping Caucasian mineral water. Along with his convicted codefendant, Economist Viktor Krasin, Yakir repeated the recantations that had earned them both relatively mild sentences (three years in prison and three years of exile) at their trial on charges of subversion (TIME, Sept...
...place in the dock of the courtroom, a converted army lecture hall in Manila's Fort Bonifacio. Instead of trying to answer the specific charges, however, he shrewdly grabbed every opportunity to denounce the proceeding itself as "an unconscionable mockery," clearly aiming his remarks at the 200 newsmen and spectators who jammed the courtroom...