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...Being a former farmer and horse raiser," Reagan said, "I know what it's like to try to eliminate an injured horse by shooting him. Now you call the veterinarian and the vet gives it a shot and the horse goes to sleep-that's it. I myself have wondered if maybe this isn't part of our problem [with capital punishment], if maybe we should review and see if there aren't even more humane methods now-the simple shot or tranquilizer. I think maybe there should be more study on this to find...
Courthouse in Baltimore were sealed off by deputy federal marshals, who coordinated their movements by walkie-talkie. Cooperative witnesses were given safe-conduct out of the building by a route that eluded reporters. But William Muth, 63, a Baltimore politician and former fund raiser for Agnew, met a different fate after he had cited the Fifth Amendment and refused to say anything at all. Muth was turned loose at the courthouse garage entrance where the newsmen were massed ? a procedure similar to providing a Christian a path to freedom that led directly through the lions...
...three letters he receives tells him, in so many words, to resign from the party. Just before Weicker prepared to leave for four days of sun and tennis in Sarasota, Fla. ("I have no modesty on the tennis courts"), he was assailed by a big Republican fund raiser, Gordon Reed. Replied Weicker: "One of the reasons I am sitting on that panel is so [Reed] can continue to make comments like that without having to worry about retribution...
...Harry W. Rodgers III, a prominent Maryland land developer and longtime political fund raiser. Described by associates as "everybody's pal," Rodgers supported the Democratic candidate for President in 1964 and 1968, then joined Democrats for Nixon last year. TIME has learned that the Justice Department considered prosecuting him for a possibly illegal campaign contribution in 1972. Rodgers promptly made these difficulties known to the White House, where W. Richard Howard, an assistant to then Presidential Counsel Charles W. Colson, fired off a memo to John Dean asking him to go to bat for Rodgers at the Justice Department. Rodgers...
...Alexander P. Butterfield, there were other bits and pieces of fresh insight into the workings of Watergate as the Senators quickened their pace, working toward an Aug. 3 recess. The. witnesses and their key testimony HERBERT W. KALMBACH, 51, the President's personal attorney and longtime political fund raiser, described how he raised $220,000 for the seven Watergate defendants last year (see chart following page). He undertook the job at the request of John Dean, Kalmbach testified, who "made a very strong point that absolute secrecy was required...