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...mimeograph to shoot off a daily barrage of press releases, hoping to get his name in print. Yet as a raconteur and one of Washington's hardest workers, he has always been well known to anyone dealing regularly with the Senate." Now, as chairman of the select Senate committee investigating the Watergate affair, Ervin is becoming equally familiar to the public. For this week's cover story on Ervin, written by Associate Editor Ed Magnuson, MacNeil met with the Senator in his Senate offices, at his hideaway in the Capitol and on his home territory in North Carolina...
Testifying under oath before a select Senate committee, McCord implicated an impressive list of people in the Watergate affair. The list included former Attorney General John Mitchell, who headed the Nixon committee at the time of the Watergate arrests; H.R. Haldeman, the President's White House chief of staff; John Dean III, Nixon's chief legal counsel; Charles Colson, a former Nixon counsel; and Jeb Stuart Magruder, a former White House aide and deputy director of the re-election committee who is now an assistant to the Secretary of Commerce. McCord, who faces up to 45 years...
...nicknamed "Spot" (because he had a white spot on the right side of his head). "He was cordial. He asked me to sit down, gave me a cigarette, asked me about my family-I'd been allowed one letter at that point. He said he was trying to select a man to celebrate the downing of the 3,000th U.S. plane to tell the American people the truth about the war and appear on TV. I said I wasn't the guy. He said I must. The Vietnamese people had saved my life, he said...
...untoward ideas, Mission Impossible and The Untouchables were temporarily banned from the nation's air waves. Then the 920 delegates to the People's Consultative Assembly, a military-dominated body whose deliberations take the place of national elections, gathered in Jakarta's high-domed amphitheater to select Indonesia's President for the next five years...
...outpatient programs include plastic surgery and some ear, nose and throat operations, as well as hernia repairs and minor orthopedic surgery. Many hospitals also find the outpatient approach ideal for the removal of benign tumors and cysts and early abortions. Even for those relatively minor operations, though, hospitals select their patients carefully, turning back the elderly or those with physical conditions that are likely to cause complications...