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...seemed to Agnew's advantage to try to delay the grand jury as much as possible. Last week his lawyers filed for a court order that, among other things, would quash the grand jury action on the grounds that "the Constitution forbids that the Vice President be indicted or tried in any criminal court...
...Watergate, the ITT scandal, and probably on the Ellsberg break-in and other plumbers' activities. Now that he has been indicted, Ehrlichman has grounds for keeping silent, at least in regard to the Ellsberg burglary case. His attorneys, in fact, asked the federal district court in Washington to quash the subpoena; testifying for a fourth time, they maintained, would be "unreasonable and oppressive." Cox, on the other hand, argued that Ehrlichman has testified only briefly in his past appearances. He feels that Ehrlichman knows too much to be silenced...
...Ervin committee had hoped that Nixon would file a motion to quash the subpoenas, a step that would put the burden of proof on the President's attorneys. Instead, Nixon's men elected to ignore all the subpoenas, simply issuing a letter of refusal and leaving the burden of legal initiative on the committee and on Cox. Immediately, the committee, voting by hand on camera in the hearing room, moved to sue the President for the tapes and documents...
...heart of the matter is the secret Nixon campaign contribution of $200,000 in cash that was paid to Stans by Financier Robert L. Vesco. The indictments assert that Mitchell and Stans reciprocated by aiding Vesco in his unsuccessful efforts to quash a Securities and Exchange Commission probe into his "looting" of a huge mutual-fund complex. The go-between was Harry L. Sears, head of Nixon's re-election drive in New Jersey, onetime Republican majority leader in the state's senate and a director of International Controls Corp., which Vesco dominated...
...Department began to issue subpoenas in large numbers for material that the press has always considered privileged. Last June the Supreme Court ruled in the Government's favor, saying that the First Amendment does not offer automatic protection against such subpoenas. The issue remains cloudy. The courts can quash individual subpoenas, and Congress is considering giving newsmen a statutory shield. Meanwhile, newsmen who print material that arouses a grand jury's curiosity may still face a choice between divulging their sources or going to jail. But if ever there was proof of the need for the press...