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...problems were compounded by the necessity of figuring out how to respond to a second subpoena, which came two weeks ago from Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski. It demanded 64 tapes of presidential conversations with aides from June 1972 through June 1973 that dealt primarily with the Watergate coverup; included were 24 tapes asked for by the Judiciary Committee. Federal Judge John J. Sirica ordered that the White House answer the subpoena by this Thursday. Presidential aides thought it unlikely that the deadline could be met. But it was possible that Nixon was seeking a way to dispose of both subpoenas...
When he decided to fire Archibald Cox, almost nothing made Richard Nixon angrier than the special prosecutor's investigation of the $100,000 Nixon campaign gift from Howard Hughes to Charles ("Bebe") Rebozo, the President's close friend. That matter, Nixon firmly declared, was off limits. But the matter did not die with the departure of Cox. It was pursued by a dogged, four-man team of investigators from the Senate Watergate committee under the direction of Terry Lenzner, 34, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney in New York City and a onetime member of the Berrigan brothers...
According to Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback, Guillaume has already admitted being an officer in the East German People's Army and an agent for East Berlin's Ministry for State Security. He had apparently been watched since last summer by police. Brandt has told the Bundestag that he knew of the suspicions regarding his assistant "a long time ago," but had kept him on his staff at the recommendation of West German security...
...merely on the oath of another man," says Boston Defense Lawyer Paul T. Smith. "That's tragic. For instance [Presidential Lawyer Herbert] Kalmbach has tes tified in direct contradiction to [Bebe] Rebozo on the disposition of that $100,000 Hughes donation. One of them is lying. Basically, the prosecutor can simply decide which one to prosecute...
Cagey Weaseling. In practice, says former U.S. Prosecutor Gary Naftalis, the Government must also answer a question invariably in jurors' minds: "Why would a person he?" Usually the contention has been that the defendant was trying to conceal a criminal act. Consequently, most perjury charges are brought in conjunction with other criminal allegations. Such a coupling of charges can be a useful prosecution tactic. Quite often, the available evidence is not adequate to get a conviction for the original criminal act, but in front of the grand jury the defendant may have contradicted himself or others so much that...