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...thereby crippling it. But he denied at his vice-presidential confirmation hearings in 1973 that he had acted under White House direction. Even if he had, it would have been routine and reasonable for Ford, who was House Republican leader at the time, to do so because the Patman probe would have been politically embarrassing to the G.O.P. Ford then presumably had no knowledge that the White House was trying to cover up its own criminal involvement in Watergate...
...department has found no substantiation for the charges ... Ruff is aware of them." An IRS report on the investigation was sent to Justice Department officials just as Ford became Vice President in 1973, but they discounted it because of the low credibility of the informer. Ruff began to probe into the matter after he was tipped to the existence of the report by several sources, including an aide to a Democratic Congressman. Asked by TIME about these charges last week, Ford's chief of staff, Richard Cheney, said, "The charge is so outlandish and preposterous and also false that...
...removing the office of the special prosecutor from any political influence and making him responsible only to the charter under which he operates, Congress in effect required Ruff to continue to investigate even though the allegations might have seemed to be shaky and he undoubtedly knew that his probe would affect the elections...
...week's end there were reports that the special prosecutor was about to clear Ford completely on the campaign fund probe. Hearing of Ford's denials of fund misuse, Carter did not press the question. Said he: "That ends the matter as far as I am involved...
...labor force in some Jewish-owned businesses, there should be an Arab job ceiling of 20%. That way, Koenig argued, economic insecurity would keep Arab minds off "thoughts of a so-called cultural-nationalistic nature." Koenig insisted that "the nature of the Levantine character is superficial, does not probe in depth, and has an imagination that gains the upper hand over national thinking." Complained Nazareth's Communist Mayor Tawfiq Zayad: "Many of Koenig's recommendations are already official policy. We are constantly spied on, we are discriminated against in the schools, our land is confiscated, and there...