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...finance his honeymoon last fall. He conceded that he had-and this was promptly leaked to the press. Nixon associates also supplied the committee with a White House summary of conversations between Dean and Nixon that conflicted with Dean's account; this too was quickly conveyed to newsmen. Still apparently unwilling to abandon its discredited snooping tactics, the White House, TIME has also learned, has hired private detectives to probe Dean's background further. Claimed a source friendly to Dean: "They can't call on the FBI any more, so they've gone out and hired...
...case involves his cat-and-mouse relationship with Charles W. Colson, the shrewd former colleague of Dean's at the White House and now one of the most vociferous advocates of the President's-and his own-innocence in the whole Watergate affair. Chuck ("Chuckles" to some newsmen) Colson had hired E. Howard Hunt Jr. as a special White House investigator and "plumber." He insists he had nothing to do with the former CIA agent after Hunt left the White House on March 29, 1972, to become a Nixon committee wiretapper...
Late last week Colson sat down with TIME Correspondent Simmons Fentress. Bitter about the press, Colson charged that newsmen were "playing the game of innuendo to try to get after the President." He called it "bloody outrageous." He was especially angry at Washington Post Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who first reported Hunt's claim that Colson had suggested a Bremer burglary...
Communist Party chief invited over eleven Moscow-based U.S. correspondents, including TIME'S John Shaw. It was not only the first time that the newsmen had ever met with Brezhnev but the first time that they had been inside the inner sanctum of Soviet power. In wry allusion to how the Western press sometimes refers to his office, Brezhnev explained that he wanted to help his visitors unravel "the mysterious unknown wafting above the Kremlin...
Obviously enjoying his role as tour director, the Soviet boss jokingly pretended to the newsmen that silk curtains down one wall were covers for his bookshelves. Then he parted the curtains to reveal double glass doors leading to a private hideaway that included a TV set, a refrigerator and a medicine cabinet. "This is where I usually eat," he said. "You see this little couch in there? If I get a chance, maybe I can get a nap there." Brezhnev added that he spent "a terrifying amount of time" in his offices-one in the Kremlin, another on the opposite...