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...senatorial questioning, a White House counterstrategy seemed to be emerging. It was to blame Dean and Mitchell for the Watergate wiretapping and its concealment. Ehrlichman and Haldeman will likely take the blame for shielding the clandestine activities of the White House team of agents?"the plumbers"?but plead that these were separate from Watergate and necessary in the interests of national security...
JONATHAN, according to its publicity, is "the first anti-fascist vampire movie" - whatever that might be. It could just as easily be the first ecological vampire movie, or the first to plead the case of needy vampires. The work of Hans W. Geissendorfer, a young West German film maker, Jonathan has less relation to the jugular entertain ments of Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee than to Artaud's theater of cruelty...
...night of the teach-in, March 26, 1971, Cox appeared on the stage in Sanders Theater to plead with the crowd to stop the chanting and clapping which had made it impossible for the pro-war speakers to be heard. "You have the power to disrupt this meeting at any time. But will you please let me speak?" Cox told the noisy audience...
...says a Dean friend, would be like going before the committee "with his fanny showing." Actually, full immunity is available under old laws until they expire in 1974, and the Attorney General could authorize it if he wished. But so far, the prosecutors have offered only to let Dean plead guilty to one count of obstruction of justice, with the likelihood of a suspended sentence if he proves to be a cooperative witness. Dean is said to have refused such a deal. His reasons: It would involve an admission of guilt, and confession to a felony would probably result...
Nixon insisted that he had neither authorized nor known about offers of Executive clemency to persuade the Watergate burglars to plead guilty and remain silent. He also insisted that he had made no attempt to get the CIA to take the blame for the Watergate operation? and had authorized no one else to do so. He denied authorizing or encouraging "subordinates to engage in il legal or improper campaign tactics." Curiously, he did not say whether he had been aware of such activities...