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...California, though this is considered extremely unlikely. More conceivably, citizens resentful about what they regard as illegal expenditures on the President's homes in California and Florida could bring civil suits. Further, action in the federal courts could be initiated by someone like former National Security Council Staffer Morton Halperin, whose telephone was bugged on Nixon's orders. Another potential danger to the former President is that he will be disbarred. Still, these problems are less pressing than the one President Ford disposed of with his order of Executive clemency. The future remains cloudy for Richard Nixon...
...Tanzania, says that during the 1970-71 demonstrations, the DAS "perhaps looked harder for projects in socialist countries than we had before." And the Tanzania project, which was first broached to Harvard in late 1970 at the height of anti-CFIA activity, is a blue chip in what another staffer calls a policy of "getting a politically-diversified portfolio of project countries--as they would be seen from Harvard," pursued "as much for appearances as anything...
...number of dailies have followed the example of the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times, which seven years ago designated a senior staffer as ombudsman-the person in charge of reviewing readers' complaints about fairness and accuracy. The Milwaukee Journal's "reader contact editor," David Runge, fields written and telephoned protests and asks reporters to provide proof for disputed articles. Cy Liberman. "public editor" of the Wilmington (Del.) News-Journal, writes an independent daily column that has recently slammed his papers' coverage of a proposed downtown mall as "too negative...
...Morrow, for 15 years Rockefeller's speechwriter and press spokesman, will be the press secretary for the Vice President. James M. Cannon, a onetime political reporter who helped lobby revenue sharing through Congress, is expected to become Rockefeller's liaison with Congress. Joseph Persico, a former USIA staffer, will be the Veep's chief speechwriter, though he admits to experiencing "blank-page terror" when he starts composing a speech. "I now have trouble writing a business letter without making it sound like Caesar haranguing the Etruscans," he says. Ann Whitman, who was once President Eisenhower...
...operate jointly. In 1972 it made nearly 300 grants totaling more than $11 million. Now John D. Jr.'s grandchildren, the Cousins, as the family calls them, are carrying the tradition into the fourth generation. With their parents, they have created the Rockefeller Family Fund, described by a staffer as a "swinging" philanthropy that supports projects in five areas: conservation, equal opportunity for women, institutional "responsiveness," the arts and public aesthetics, and education...