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Since returning from a well-deserved one-month recess in September, Sam Ervin's Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities has never regained the earlier momentum of its investigation into the Watergate mess and other scandals. Last week, on the day that it had been scheduled to begin examining publicly one of several pieces of important unfinished business, the seven-member committee suddenly voted to suspend its hearings indefinitely-until January at the earliest. The decision helped underscore the factionalism and frustration that has lately shaken the committee's once solid and purposeful ranks...
...reelection campaign. A Columbia Law graduate, McBride prosecuted organized crime as an assistant district attorney in New York City, then joined the Organized Crime Section of the Justice Department in 1960. Subsequently, he was a Peace Corps director in Latin America, deputy chief counsel of the House Select Committee on Crime and finally director of the Police Foundation, a private group that finances programs to improve law enforcement...
When Packwood finished, the room was quiet. Nixon said nothing. Michigan Senator Robert P. Griffin broke the stillness by suggesting that some of Packwood's ideas were good, and the discussion turned to whether Nixon's credibility could be aided by his confronting a select group of newsmen...
...nine student nominees to the Commission of Inquiry will select two of their number tomorrow to serve on the commission for the rest of this academic year...
...journey had an appearance of overreach about it. En route to Peking for a twice-postponed discussion with Chinese Premier Chou Enlai, Henry Kissinger proposed to make five stops in as many days in Arab capitals along the way. Kissinger's intention: to sort out and select options for Israel and its Arab adversaries, after face-to-face discussions with the principals involved. For the accompanying newsmen (see box page 43), the trip quickly became a kind of "if this is Wednesday, it must be Cairo" frenzy. But by Friday, when Kissinger left the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh...