Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FIVE YEARS AGO today Pinochet's military stormed the presidential palace in Santiago, Chile, to depose and murder Salvador Allende Gossens. Five years ago today Nixon and Kissinger chortled over the success of their best-laid plans to foment the coup, to "make the economy scream" in Chile, to make the world safe for democracy...
Carter himself will occupy the plush Aspen Lodge, which was extravagantly refurbished by Richard Nixon. Begin will stay in Birch house and Sadat in Dogwood, both located about 50 yds. from Aspen Lodge. The guests' "cabins" are similar, each with two large bedrooms, two bathrooms and a large sitting room with a fireplace. Cooks at Aspen Lodge are on 24-hr, call to prepare any dish the guests order, and they have a list of the two visitors' gastronomic favorites. Sadat, nonetheless, is bringing his own chef; the Egyptian leader is a health buff who carefully watches his diet. Kosher...
Some of the negotiating will take place in armchairs around the huge central fireplace in Aspen Lodge, where Nixon spent agonizing hours trying to construct a Watergate defense. Other sessions will be held less than a quarter mile up the road in Laurel Lodge, where the rectangular conference table has been replaced by a circular one. For these enlarged conferences, Vance, Vice President Walter Mondale, National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and other key officials will be available, as will the top aides of the two other leaders...
...right to a fair trial, guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment. When the First and Sixth Amendments collide, lawyers and judges (being a closed society) tend to take the Sixth. Law, more than the press, they see as an older, basic guarantor of liberty. And wasn't even Richard Nixon as President forced to give up his papers? Is the press alone arrogantly above the law? Arrogance is a buzz word these days...
James Goodale, executive vice president of the Times for legal matters, points out that Nixon got a hearing before turning over his papers. And though U.S. Attorney Gen eral Griffin Bell was recently cited for contempt for protecting FBI sources, nobody put him in jail, like Farber, while the appeals went on. Yet a federal judge in New Jersey, refusing to release Farber and calling him "evil," ruled so intemperately that he didn't even get his facts straight. The Farber case seems to have this effect. He had "discovered" that Farber had a $75,000 advance...