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...Times does not see it quite that way. Assistant Managing Editor Seymour Topping explained: "We've treated this story as any story on virtually every major appointment-we check out the background of the appointee. We made no special effort. We think there are things worth looking into...
When John M. Burns III left his job in a Wall Street law firm last summer, his future gleamed. At 37, he was the hand-picked executive assistant to a close friend, Whitney North Seymour Jr., the Nixon Administration's U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. In the six months that followed, Lawyer Burns became the Government's most successful prosecutor of water polluters. This should have delighted both Seymour and the White House, which crusades for a cleaner environment. Yet a fortnight ago, Seymour fired Burns...
...According to Seymour's official statement, "a number of serious internal office problems and questions of propriety developed as a result of Mr. Burns' conduct." Later, Seymour said he meant that Burns was "overenthusiastic" in his pursuit of polluters. Mild-mannered and bespectacled, Burns has become the center of a controversy that one militant conservationist calls "the Dreyfus case of pollution...
...purpose is to bring moral and political pressure on men and women engaged in weapons work." Seymour Melman, professor of Industrial Engineering at Columiba University, author of Pentagon Capitalism and a member of the group, said yesterday...
...Seymour Hersh. An account of the massacre of Vietnamese civilians by the Pulitzer prizewinning journalist who broke the story...