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Another development last week heightened the controversy over the tapes. TIME has learned that Nixon's chief Watergate counsel, James St. Clair, initiated a meeting with Judge Sirica and the Jaworski staff. The reason: to chal lenge the findings of the jointly selected panel of experts that an 18-minute era sure in one tape had, in effect, been made deliberately. In doing so, St. Clair argued that these experts should not be permitted to examine the other tapes given to the court as originally agreed by both sides. Sirica withheld judgment on whether the experts should proceed...
...Does anyone else in the U.S. find it somewhat ironic that Judge John Sirica is this year's Man of the Year for having the courage to investigate what last year's Man of the Year and his hand-picked advisers did all year...
Jaworski has, however, been hinting broadly that he would gladly turn over his files to Rodino if so ordered by John J. Sirica, the federal judge who convened the Watergate grand juries. Rodino is expected to ask Sirica to solve the impasse. If Sirica refuses, Rodino can try to subpoena the materials. Assuming that he can get Jaworski's files, Rodino has promised O'Neill that he will push for a committee vote on impeachment by April...
...Clair interrupted Expert Weiss at midsentence in one answer with a curt, "Thank you." Objected Ben-Veniste: "This is a joint panel here and these experts should not be cut off." Sirica sustained the prosecutor. St. Clair, in turn, objected vigorously when Ben-Veniste tried to get one of the technicians to declare flatly that the erasure was "deliberate." Although the report leads to that inescapable conclusion, none of the experts would put it that bluntly. Sirica complained, "That's what I want to know." The best Ben-Veniste could get was Bolt's concession that...
They were so cautious that when Sirica asked Stockham if the signature marks on the tape could only be produced by pushing tape recorder buttons by hand, he replied: "With a hand. Or with a stick." "But not a foot pedal?" Sirica asked. "Not with a foot pedal," Stockham declared. When the technicians completed their presentation, St. Clair grumped, "I think I'm going to talk to my own experts." Protested Bolt: "I thought we were your experts...