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Despite repeated assurances that the President wants a prompt, thorough investigation, the White House has fought blatantly and with marked success to drag out Watergate, to stall the impeachment process by every possible means. Nixon's lawyers last week maneuvered in court to slow the case and kept stonewalling against the House Judiciary Committee's request for more evidence, to which it is entitled under the Constitution. The committee's impeachment timetable continued to slip badly...
...first victory in 1940. His total involvement with all facets of racing includes even horse matchmaking-it was Stephens' idea to mate Bold Bidder and Queen Sucree in 1970. The product was named Cannonade. To this day he still checks the feed supply and water buckets in each stall before heading home. "It's sort of reflex action by now," he says. "It comes from the days when filling the pails at night...
...effect has been the opposite. Indeed, the Arab decision may have the salutary effect of fostering Common Market solidarity. Dutch sources indicate that The Netherlands may stall preparations for the Arab-European conference proposed for late this year until the Arabs scrap the embargo. They are receiving support from, of all nations, France, which is the conference's prime sponsor. Says French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert: "The Arabs cannot expect Europe to deal with them as a unit if they continue to discriminate against members of the Common Market...
Nixon's narrow view of the permissible impeachment grounds might permit his attorneys to stall. They could argue that most requests for evidence from the Rodino committee were irrelevant to impeachment. The Supreme Court might have to decide these battles. The basic Nixon strategy still seems to be to hold out and play for some unexpected break...
Simultaneously with the request to the White House, the committee staff, headed by John Doar, intends to seek evidence directly from Jaworski in a way that will give President Nixon's lawyers the slimmest chance of going into court to stall the turnover.* To do so, the Judiciary Committee staff has several options...