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...Charles Alan Wright and Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox and for oral arguments to be heard. It will probably hand down a decision before the end of September, just in time for a final appeal by the losing party to the Supreme Court when it reconvenes after its summer recess...
This week Baker is starting to test the political waters, which he found warm and congenial when he traveled around the state during the July 4 recess. Though most people continue to greet him affectionately, he hears of a possible cooling off. Some Tennessee liberals complain that he handled the White House higher-ups too gingerly...
...final week before the month-long recess, the committee heard testimony from three men who, until a few months ago, were the nation's top law-enforcement officers. The three had been charged with investigating the Watergate case; and yet, in the crucial six weeks last spring when the case was breaking open, they found that they were repeatedly being manipulated by the White House...
There is more to be heard. After a month-long recess Senator Sam Ervin's Select Committee still expects to question seven further witnesses about the Watergate burglary and the subsequent coverup. Also missing from the record is the potentially (but not necessarily) decisive evidence from the tapes of conversations secretly recorded by the President. Nixon's latest account of the affair, presumably to be given this week, could alter the weight of evidence already before the committee...
...hearing recess provides a fitting opportunity for the Ervin committee staff to begin sifting the testimony in search of tentative conclusions-and perjury. TIME, too, has assessed the evidence to date and, without attempting to indicate individual criminal culpability, offers this analysis...