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...headquarters in Washington's Watergate complex last June and had approved of it. In the face of such charges, Republican Congressmen as well as many G.O.P. stalwarts in all walks of life were highly critical of Nixon's decision merely to authorize curt denials through White House spokesmen rather than speak openly and fully. Besides the single court-proven act of spying at the Watergate, there are now broader charges of a covert and systematic attempt by Nixon's re-election officials to disrupt the campaigns of potential Democratic opponents in last year's presidential election...
...Spokesmen for the White House and the Nixon committee issued short, sharp denials. Presidential Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler said that Nixon still had "absolute and total confidence" in Dean and that Dean had no prior knowledge of Watergate. (But Gerald Ford, Republican House leader, declared: "If Dean is clean, I see no reason why he shouldn't testify.") John Mitchell* said that "I deeply resent the slanderous and false statements about me," and reaffirmed earlier denials of any advance knowledge of the Watergate affair. Colson termed McCord's mention of him "a goddamned lie." Magruder stood...
...Third World Coalition, which consists of Latins, Asians and Afro-Americans, met with Bernstein several times before the building takeover, but he would not discuss any of their demands concerning financial aid and admission policies for minority students, Third World spokesmen said yesterday...
With extensive documentation Jonathon Kozol, Charles E. Silberman, John Holt, and Joseph Featherstone, to name only the most prominent, exposed the fundamental weakness of education in America. Starting either as despondent school teachers or irate spokesmen for minority groups, they arrived at the same dual conclusion: American schools are bad places for learning, and instruments for continuing oppression of large segments of the population...
...March 7," said ABC Producer Bill Brown. "While they were waiting for negotiations to continue, young Indians gathered in the tribal council house and lit a bonfire. It was 60° outside." Brown also thinks that on several occasions newsmen's questions influenced the improvised policy of AIM spokesmen. At one meeting, Brown recalled, "I put the question to them: 'Are you setting up a provisional government?' " Shortly afterward AIM leaders declared Wounded Knee the Oglala Nation...