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WHEN WATERGATE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR Archibald Cox was fired 10 years ago last week, he didn't know that the last head to roll so unceremoniously at the whim of a U.S. President was Salvador Allende's only months before. While Cox's booting was a boon to his career. Allende, the Chilean leader murdered in a CIA-backed military coup, was not so lucky. That abuse of presidential power, like Cox's firing, was discovered only in its wake. Sometimes that's too late...

Author: By Charles D. Bloche, | Title: Just Another Saturday Night | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

...memory fades, and attention shifts in a busy republic. On October 20, 1973, President Richard Nixon ordered that Loeb University Professor Cox be fired from his post as Special Prosecutor for his persistence in seeking the Watergate tapes. In what was dubbed the "Saturday Night Massacre." Nixon went through two Attorney Generals before finding one who would carry out that order...

Author: By Charles D. Bloche, | Title: Just Another Saturday Night | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

...Executive executes the law. Would the Presidency move against the President? In the fall of 1973, Nixon faced a court order to surrender his tapes. Instead that day he fired his prosecutor, announced he was abolishing the Special Prosecutor's post, and sent F.B.I. agents to seal off Cox's office. "I'm going home to read about the Reichstag fire," cracked a bitter Cox aide...

Author: By Charles D. Bloche, | Title: Just Another Saturday Night | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

...staff called it the "firestorm". "The only power that could have compelled him would have been the political and moral power of the people," Cox says, adding "What ought to be celebrated about the Saturday Night Macssere is the people's responses." Within days Nixon appointed a new prosecutor and released the first tapes. He dared not act otherwise...

Author: By Charles D. Bloche, | Title: Just Another Saturday Night | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

Writer Franco Solinas (The Battle of Algiers) and Director Costa-Gavras (Z) know how to use movie archetypes to manipulate political loyalties. The Israeli prosecutor has the superior smile of a bureaucrat conquistador. The Palestinian is tall, thin, suntanned, nice to babies; and he has unflinching crystal blue eyes (would they lie to you?). And yet, the film bends over backward to seem fair to its swarm of social and personal ambiguities. The result is a well-meaning muddle that refuses to come alive. The pace is languid when it ought to fall into the march step of melodrama. Hanna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Raking Up the Autumn Leavings | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

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