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...next morning Rodino met with Speaker Albert at 9 o'clock and went over the reasons why he felt the House should reject Agnew's plea. Albert agreed, and promptly announced that the House was turning Agnew down, at least for the time being, since his case related to "matters before the courts...
...treated sympathetically by the committee. Far from the swashbuckling character suggested by his wartime OSS and covert CIA exploits, he was a pathetic figure. Thinned by the effects of a stroke suffered in prison, he tired visibly under questioning. He is battling in court to void his guilty plea or, failing that, to get a reduction in his provisional 30-year sentence from Federal Judge John J. Sirica. Apparently unable to follow much of the committee testimony while in prison, he often seemed to know less about the origins of the Watergate wiretapping than any attentive TV follower of Senator...
...auspicious beginning, but on the whole his plea for a stable peace was a bit too cautious to ignite his hopeful audience. In addition to his broad statement of principles, Kissinger made two specific proposals: 1) that the Security Council establish more effective peace-keeping guidelines so that...
While both sides appealed Sirica's decision on Cox's suit-and Sirica selected two lawyers to defend his own ruling before the appeals court-the judge also had to deal with Sam Dash's plea for the tapes. In this case, he appeared to be more favorably disposed toward the White House. He granted the large staff of White House lawyers (ten are now working full time on the Watergate defense) until Sept. 24 to respond to the Ervin committee's demand for the tapes. He set no date for oral arguments after that...
...first novel, Columnist Jimmy Breslin copped a plea. Instead of drawing on his vast knowledge of New York's underbelly, he turned out a spoof on the Mafia called The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight. In his second effort, a richer and wiser Breslin pleads a cop, comes up with a truly arresting character: Dermot Davey, 29, an Irish Catholic New York patrolman who does not "like one hour of one day of one week of his life...