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...Committee report that William Marumoto, an official of the Committee to Re-Elect the President, arranged placement of $1,483,000 in SBA grants in order to influence Mexican-American votes for Nixon's reelection. Publicly, the subcommittee revealed that Thomas Regan, head of the SBA office in Richmond, approved a loan to a local entrepreneur, Joseph C. Palumbo. Eleven days earlier, Regan, 44, had married Palumbo's sister. Subcommittee Member Henry Gonzalez, a Texas Democrat, says that congressional investigators are looking into a series of leads that point to possible kickbacks from borrowers, loans made to borrowers...
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...some of the best and most progressive journalists in this country: Marshall Frady, J. Anthony Lukas '55, Joe McGinniss, Mike Royko, Studs Terkel and Nicholas von Hoffman. In addition, the magazine lists some 66 correspondents scattered around the country--most of them apparently younger journalists in places like Richmond, Va. and Bozeman, Mont., many of them working for small, independent local weeklies. If its masthead were any indication, New Times would be covering a variety of interesting and important local stories with sensitive and informed understanding...
...many cities, busing has long since spurred a white flight to the suburbs or to private schools that is making busing ineffectual for integration. Enrollment in Memphis has gone from half-black, half-white in 1970 to 68% black. Richmond's schools, now in their third year of massive busing, are 72% black and Atlanta...
...dark gray area where there are no judicial precedents." Never before has Congress subpoenaed a President. Only once has the Judiciary Branch issued a subpoena to a President. That was in 1807, when Chief Justice John Marshall, performing his collateral role as a district-court judge in Richmond, was trying Aaron Burr for treason. Burr wanted Thomas Jefferson to produce letters written to him by one of the prosecution witnesses...