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...sincerely wonder if Judge Sirica fully realizes the implications of his decisions regarding the "Forgotten Cubans" [Sept. 24]. Their fates, not those of the high-ranking officials implicated in Watergate, will have the most far-reaching effects on the personal lives of Americans. Are we to be programmed and made to perform like Pavlovian dogs and then condemned for what we do at someone else's whim and fancy? If so, we can only choose to balk, question and refuse to obey whenever we perceive the slightest lack of confidence or doubt in the wisdom of those rightfully ordained...
...Friday, the District of Columbia appeals court upheld a lower court upheld a lower court ruling that ordered President Nixon to submit the secret White House tapes concerning Watergate to Judge John Sirica for his inspection. Nixon has previously said he will refuse to do so, pending a "definitive" ruling of the Supreme Court...
...exploits, he was a pathetic figure. Thinned by the effects of a stroke suffered in prison, he tired visibly under questioning. He is battling in court to void his guilty plea or, failing that, to get a reduction in his provisional 30-year sentence from Federal Judge John J. Sirica. Apparently unable to follow much of the committee testimony while in prison, he often seemed to know less about the origins of the Watergate wiretapping than any attentive TV follower of Senator Sam Ervin's committee...
This week the four men were scheduled to testify in Washington before a federal grand jury, as well as to have their sentences reviewed by Federal Judge John J. Sirica. In meting out their provisional terms last March, Sirica said that if they told investigators all they knew about the breakin, he would "weigh that" in deciding whether to reduce their sentences. They say that they have cooperated. Yet as the Watergate investigation has grown, so has their "provisional" stay at the medium-security federal prison at Danbury, Conn. If Sirica believes that the four have still more to tell...
Last week Schultz filed a petition for a retrial of the men, which if accepted by Sirica would cancel his planned review of their sentences. Schultz argued that the men originally pleaded guilty in the belief that they were protecting "national security interests" by doing so. Now they believe they were deceived and made victims of a "cruel fraud." Barker once denied that anyone had pressured the four conspirators into pleading guilty last spring but now says it is a matter of "interpretation" and for the judge to decide. It is known, however, that Schultz is preparing a suit against...