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...VIGGO PETERSEN San Francisco...
...leaders of the task force plan to seek quick assurance that Petersen-or any new special prosecutor-is genuinely determined to follow any trail. Within the next two weeks, one senior attorney says privately, the task force will "send a crunch decision" to Petersen or whoever is the new special prosecutor that Nixon has promised to name this week. They intend to hand up evidence involving a "sensitive area" that will force the new prosecutor to make good or else. If whoever is in charge by then fails that test, mass resignations will surely follow...
...some of the younger attorneys threatened to resign as a protest against Cox's firing, Assistant Special Prosecutor James McBride and other top Cox assistants persuaded them that the momentum of the fast-spreading Watergate investigation would be slowed for months without their expertise. Criminal Division Chief Henry Petersen, who is mightily distrusted by many Cox associates because of his solicitous attention to Administration feelings during the original Watergate investigation, held a tense meeting with members of the staff. As their temporary boss, he urged them to stay on. "Stay, that's what we want," said Petersen. "That...
WASHINGTON--Leading Republican members of Congress are pressuring President Nixon to assure them that any indictments former Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox '34 was ready to issue will be returned this week by Henry E. Petersen, assistant attorney general now in charge of the investigation, sources close to Senate Majority Leader Hugh Scott (R-Pa.) said Friday...
...memo sent last week to President Nixon by the Republican leaders urged him to make sure the investigation goes on vigorously under Petersen, to see that a new special prosecutor is named and to consider allowing District Court Judge John Sirica to appoint the prosecutor...