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...first time in 105 years, a committee of the House of Representatives assembled last week to begin an inquiry into the possible impeachment of the President of the U.S. Like many historic occasions, this one began with relatively obscure preliminaries and routine, undramatic details. Unlike the solemn moment of nonpartisan statesmanship that was clearly called for, however, the first full-scale meeting of the House Judiciary Committee devoted to the impeachment question produced a round of unfortunate bickering between Democrats and Republicans and a vote recorded along strict party lines. The committee's chances for future cooperation were hardly...
Meanwhile, Rodino has begun assembling an "impeachment staff," which by last week included two attorneys, six investigators, an office manager and about a dozen other workers. Now he is looking for a chief counsel who is nonpartisan. "I want a good trial lawyer," says Rodino. "I want a man who is aggressive but not abrasive. And he has to be tuned in on constitutional...
...impeachment proceedings are being conducted by the Judiciary Committee, headed by New Jersey's Peter Rodino Jr. Already he has started canvassing law-school deans for recommendations on the most able and nonpartisan lawyer available to head the investigating staff and conduct impeachment hearings. Rodino has been
Fiction is destroyed by précis - Doris Lessing's more than most writers'. Her power lies in the kind of nonpartisan gravity that overrides any specific levity a cynical reader may generate. She encourages the kind of brooding about the questions of life which knows at the outset there are no answers. "I haven't been married for years," she told an interviewer recently. "No one knows the virtues it requires, and I haven't got them." Have them or not, she knows them well enough, their value and their cost as well. *Timothy Foote
Died. Hamilton Fish Armstrong, 80, vigorous, nonpartisan editor of Foreign Affairs for 44 years; after a long illness; in Manhattan. An urbane, scholarly New Yorker, Armstrong joined Foreign Affairs at its founding in 1922 and served as its editor from 1928 until his retirement two years ago. Although the circulation of his quarterly has never exceeded 73,000, it has long been a prestigious forum reflecting the viewpoints of statesmen and political commentators around the world. Foreign Affairs published articles by heads of governments as well as their critics, and in its 1947 article by "X" (State Department Planner George...