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County, is confident of re-election because he spoke out early on Watergate. "I urged that the President not spread Executive privilege around long before anyone else," he says. "I called upon him to get rid of Haldeman and Ehrlichman long before they finally left. I urged him to release the tapes when their existence first became known...
...WONDERED what he meant. A glance at Nixon and Agnew could reveal "taxpaying conservatives" to be a contradiction in terms. Linus Pauling got rid of the Common Cause a couple of years ago. And if conservatives are against "pressuring, harassing, and demanding," then why did I receive this backing-me-against-the-wall letter asking for money? It just didn't make sense. But then in a flash of hindsight it all came clear. They had enclosed a report which "describes the fashion in which ACU has sought to seize the initiative in behalf of the conservative position--not merely...
MADE WITH the technical advice of three Roman Catholic priests, the movie broadcasts the superior power of the Catholic Church to rid the world of evil. The Church must be running out of devout. Still exorcism is spare stuff for so heavy a message, especially when it is left at loose ends. The history of the devil spirit, for all the attention he gets, is a mystery. You don't know why the devil picked on little Regan. You don't konw why the two priests die. You don't even get told how an exorcism works...
...second son is working on Wall Street). "I close the door and keep the fire going," she says. "We close off the living room and other rooms." Dinners are by candlelight, though father is seldom home for them. In another gesture of conspicuous non-consumption, the Simons are getting rid of the family Jeep station wagon-"a gas eater," says Carol-and will do most of their driving instead in Son William's Chevy Nova...
...April 1972 and September 1973. Boone appointed Raymond Porelle in December 1972 to clean up Walpole. Porelle had a reputation as a strict law enforcement officer and his assignment was to discipline both the prisoners and the guards. Porelle instituted a lock-up and shakedown in late December to rid Walpole of contraband drugs and alcohol. The tension between guards and prisoners increased so much during the lock-up that Porelle could not unlock a cell block without creating a disturbance...