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Nancy Barrow, staff assistant to Sen. John H. Chaffee (R-R.I.), said yesterday Congress would probably amend the bill before the grace period expires, if the Labor Department study predicts harmful effects...
...criminal trespass on Boston Edison property against three Boston Clamshell members arrested Wednesday will be dropped by a district court and no criminal records will be established, provided they do not engage in any form of civil disobedience during the next six months, Frank J. Bove, a Clamshell staff member, said yesterday...
...wants to hear more testimony from Miller about sales by Textron, Inc., the conglomerate Miller currently chairs, to the government of Iran. Apparently, Textron paid a $2.9 million commission to an Iranian sales agency on a deal involving 500 helicopters made by a Textron subsidiary. Members of the Committee staff claim it is common knowledge that the owner of that sales agency was none other than the commander of the Iranian Air Force and the Shah's brother. In previous testimony, Miller denied knowledge of the involvement of the Shah's brother with the commission, but the seemingly minor incident...
...center of the turmoil was H.R. ("Bob") Haldeman, once the crewcut, fiercely loyal chief of staff to President Nixon, now serving a minimum one-year term at California's Lompoc prison farm on a conviction of perjury in the Watergate coverup. Last May Haldeman had fumed as he watched his former chief imply in televised interviews with David Frost that he might have saved his presidency if he had just had the heart to fire earlier his two closest aides, Haldeman and Domestic Adviser John Ehrlichman. Haldeman vowed then and there to turn his pro-Nixon memoirs into...
Haldeman portrays himself as continually giving "active encouragement" to the "good" side of Nixon and treating the "bad" side with "benign neglect." As chief of staff, Haldeman says, he often ignored "petty, vindictive" orders from Nixon (such as one to give mass lie detector tests to employees of the State Department as a means of finding security leaks). Haldeman now regrets that he did not challenge Nixon more "frontally" to check his dark impulses. But he also notes wryly that other Nixon associates who had done so, including HEW Secretary Robert Finch and Communications Director Herbert Klein, quickly lost influence...