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...demeanor and a gesture of good will, he was able to gather a varied political bouquet. Robert Strauss, former Democratic national chairman, was almost silent. House Democratic Majority Whip Tom Foley looked content. The gallant, crippled Jacob Javits, former Republican Senator from New York, wired his blessings. Judge John Sirica, who sent the Watergate offenders to jail, sat straight and proud. Rabbi Joseph Glaser caught every word. The Ambassador from China watched in fascination. Max Kampelman, who was one of Hubert Humphrey's whiz kids from Minnesota, cocked his ear for each nuance. The Senator's daughter, Anna...
...White House Chief of Staff James Baker, a Texan and a Cowboys nut, is weakening. He may attend along with Michael Deaver, another of the Reagan triumvirate. Senator Paul Laxalt heads south, and so does Cabinet Officer William Brock, the President's trade expert. Watergate Judge John J. Sirica will be under Cooke's wing, loving the thunder on the turf and delighted he won't have to make a single call all day. Restaurateur Duke Zeibert is aboard. "Politicians are kids too," he says. He should know, having filled their ample stomachs for 30 years...
Watergate produced strange, wonderful double-entendre evasion. White House Lawyer J. Fred Buzhardt Jr. referred to the famous 18½-min. gap on one tape as an "obliteration of the intelligence." Alexander Haig told Judge John Sirica that the gap might have been caused by "some sinister force...
...Miami after city investigators accused him of working fewer hours than he claimed. Virgilio R. Gonzalez, 56, master locksmith, runs general discount store in Miami with his wife. Eugenic Martinez, 60, heads leasing department of Miami Chevrolet dealer. James McCord, 63, electronics expert whose letter to Judge John Sirica began to unravel coverup, runs small solar-energy firm in Fort Collins, Colo. Frank Sturgis, 57, self-styled "Communist fighter," sells videotapes in Miami. Claims "Watergate financially destroyed me." Plotted bizarre attempt by Cuban exiles to invade U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay last year and establish "free" Cuban government there...
...John J. Sirica, 78, chief judge of Washington's Federal District Court. Nicknamed "Maximum John" for his tough sentences, Sirica never believed defense argument that Watergate burglars had acted alone and said so from bench. Survived massive heart attack in 1976, thanks to mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Retired from full-time bench duty in 1977, but still handles civil suits, gets full salary of $70,300. His autobiography To Set the Record Straight (sold almost 100,000 copies in hard-cover), written with help of TIME Senior Correspondent John F. Stacks, is being made into TV movie...