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...form of clemency in this case." Despite Ehrlichman's report that Nixon rejected clemency, the conversation raises a sticky question for the White House: Why did Ehrlichman feel that the question of Executive clemency would "inevitably" come up over what was then being described by Nixon's spokesmen as a "third-rate burglary...
...post in a Chicago suburban old people's home in 1965 as a reprimand for his public involvement in civil rights. As an Italian-American concerned with the problems of ethnic groups in the U.S., Asciolla has become one of Chicago's-and America's -leading spokesmen for immigrant Americans. A colorful, somewhat garrulous priest from Rhode Island, he crisscrosses the U.S. as a lecturer...
...days after the breakin, Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler refused to comment "on a third-rate burglary attempt." Nixon himself assured the public "categorically" that "no one in the White House staff, no one in this Administration, presently employed, was involved in this very bizarre incident." Subsequently Ziegler and C.R.P. spokesmen attacked the Post for "character assassination" and "shabby journalism." When the Post told of the wholesale destruction of C.R.P. records?the purpose was to expunge incriminating material?a C.R.P. spokesman said: "The sources of the Post are a fountain of misinformation." The initial stories concerning Donald Segretti's dirty-tricks...
...addition to the Price sisters, three other imprisoned Ulster Catholics were on hunger strikes last week. The death of any of these potential martyrs could trigger a new wave of violence. Shortly before the sisters ended their fast, spokesmen for the I.R.A. were warning of "devastating consequences" and a "terrible revenge" unless the two women were transferred to an Ulster jail. British Home Secretary Roy Jenkins, who had to make the decision, appeared genuinely tortured by his dilemma-whether to give in under pressure or let the women die. In a statement issued by the Home Office, he clearly hinted...
...Dunlop told Guinier that the Ford Foundation was willing to fund the Institute, but only on the condition that it be established on a University-wide basis. The Crimson learned later that the Ford Foundation had in fact suggested that it might fund the research center, but Foundation spokesmen said that no condition of any sort was placed on the contribution...