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...committee seemed unlikely to be appeased by such partial compliance with the subpoena. Nearly all of its members, including most of the Republicans, have repeatedly insisted that Nixon turn over the tapes entire. In a clear warning last week to the President, House Minority Leader John Rhodes of Arizona said: "The committee will have to be convinced that all of the relevant material is made available." He has suggested that the committee might agree to a compromise that would permit Rodino, Ranking Republican Edward Hutchinson of Michigan, Chief Counsel John Doar and Minority Counsel Albert Jenner to listen...
...fraught with danger . . . The danger is that while there is some degree of tension the aggressor [Israel] and its patrons;[the U.S.] may try again to avoid a radical solution. It is not accidental that 'ersatz' settlement plans were recently launched. This means replacing overall settlements with partial agreements...
LIKE SEX, even Springsteen at his best cannot completely satisfy, or inject rock with the popular meaning it had in the '60s. He offers only a partial solution, as long as we are listening to his albums or his performance and blocking out other thoughts. In talent, he probably offers more than most of the people who seemed central back then, but he cannot, after all, singlehandedly fetter the forces of production, detail the freight train of history. He should end up being a big success. Nevertheless he is a good person to have hanging around...
RELATIVELY SPEAKING, Kenny was new to the country. His father worked as a bartender in a Northern country club and was partial to games of chance. But Kenny had broken with that past. He bartered in watermelons, sold hay, worked on his cars and bike out front and tended his horses. He planned on growing some kind of crops on his land, but back of it all he wanted something bigger. What he had didn't sound like quite enough to support a family...
...Brock, read it and bluntly told Burch that it was inadequate. "It won't fly," snapped one of these leaders. "It doesn't go far enough," complained Scott. "You've got to get a line in there on your intent to cooperate with the committee." In partial explanation, Burch told the Senate Republican leaders that only one White House lawyer, J. Fred Buzhardt, and a secretary had been assigned to review the tapes. It took them a full day to transcribe just one confusing six-minute segment of conversation on one tape, Burch contended. Some...