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...letter, Solzhenitsyn asked the Kremlin leaders to abandon Marxist ideology, as the root of all Soviet society's evils. Sakharov believes that this plea shows a misunderstanding of modern power politics. He argues that a dominant characteristic of Soviet society is an indifference to ideology, which is used only as a "fagade" to preserve the power of the leadership and a totalitarian regime. Solzhenitsyn, he contends, makes the same mistake in attributing ideological motives to the leaders of Communist China, whom Sakharov regards as "no less pragmatic than our own." He also thinks that Solzhenitsyn has "overdramatized" the threat...
Among the 30,000 letters that she receives each month from the most desperate of her millions of readers, the nation's best-read problem solver has not yet heard from the White House. Should a plea for help arrive, however, unstumpable Ann Landers will be ready. Last week, speaking to 1,500 students at Notre Dame, Eppie Lederer, who has been "Ann" for 19 years, was asked how she would advise President Nixon. "Get on national television and say 'I resign,' " said Ann bluntly. At a recent White House reception she went on to relate...
...reason that conservatives are finding a larger market is the general disillusionment with conventional liberalism. Another is the Nixon Administration's longstanding plea for "balance" in the press. The result is that some editors and publishers have sought out conservatives in the way that the New York Times recruited William Safire (TIME, Feb. 12, 1973). The former Nixon speechwriter calls himself a "libertarian federalist" rather than a conservative, but that distinction is a fine one. Safire and other new writers have surfaced during the Watergate torrents, and some have turned on the Administration that they would otherwise be supporting...
Kleindienst thus could become the second Attorney General-and third Cabinet member-in the Nixon Administration to face criminal charges. John Mitchell and former Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans are already on trial in New York on one campaign funding case (see story following page). A guilty plea by Kleindienst would be another dismal record for an Administration that is breaking all precedents for scandalous official conduct...
...drinking. Collectively, they bumbled through a mere 130 felony trials a year, plus uncounted misdemeanor cases. With the crime explosion of the late '60s, the backlog grew to 5,422 felonies. A person charged with a felony waited an average of 4½ months to enter a plea, and the average time from arraignment to judgment was 13½ months...