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...Pardoner's Tale. Indeed, it is worse. Chaucer's three thieves at least thought that the gold was benign. Their catastrophe stemmed from disregarding Christian doctrine: radix malorum est cupiditas (greed is the root of all evil). Without a moral compass, Stone's characters cannot even plead ignorance. The irony that the heroin's value is rooted in its destructiveness does not escape them, but they cannot drop it. Its force has irradiated their world. They know of no good that will shelter them...
...Special Prosecutor's still open agenda is the case of Maurice Stans, Nixon's former Commerce Secretary and chief campaign fund raiser. He has been plea bargaining with the prosecutors, seeking to plead guilty to one or more misdemeanor charges of violating campaign-contribution laws. The prosecutors want him to plead guilty to a felony. If no agreement is reached, an indictment is expected. Also facing probable indictment is Bebe Rebozo, Nixon's millionaire Miami friend. Although it is entering its final phase, the Watergate scandal is far from over...
...Washington for two weeks just to help get the office started. He stayed nearly five months, after deciding that Dean was the key to the case and that it was critical to get his guilty plea and his cooperation. On Oct. 19 Neal went to court to hear Dean plead, then announced his own resignation. His assistants, Richard Ben-Veniste, 31, and Jill Wine Volner, 31, performed admirably in the many and complex preliminary hearings in John Sirica's courtroom. Still, as a prosecution staffer observed, "for the biggest trial of all, you want someone out there with...
...outright buying -of future governmental favors by private interests through campaign contributions to both parties has long been one of the most degrading features of U.S. political life. In Nixon's 1972 reelection campaign, it reached new depths. Last week the Greyhound Corp. became the 16th corporation to plead guilty to making illegal contributions...
...loss of their parliamentary liberties. Despite inflation, the middle class, which deserted Allende, can still manage to make ends meet. Many Chileans, even avid supporters of the coup, will concede that they are living under a dictatorship. But they see it as a necessary transition period and plead that, given enough time, they will come out of it in a uniquely Chilean...