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...indictments say that by October, as the presidential election neared, Vesco was threatening that he would disclose the secret payment unless stiffer action was taken to delay or halt the SEC inquiry. Sears phoned Mitchell to pass on the threat. In November, presumably just before the election, Vesco sent a memorandum to Donald Nixon, the President's brother.* In the memo, Vesco again warned that he would reveal the details of the contribution unless all the SEC charges were dropped...
...Harvard track team, strengthened by the return of two injured runners and coming off big routs over Princeton and Dartmouth in its first two outdoor meets, will face much stiffer competition tomorrow afternoon when it meets Army at Soldiers Field...
Harvard's varsity thinclads, who routed Princeton in this season's first dual meet last Saturday, will come up against much stiffer competition today and tomorrow at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia...
...President's words are loose, however, his proposals are quite precise. And he gave his highest priority to two of the most controversial-stiffer sentencing and the death penalty. They raise complex questions. Will tougher sentences reduce crime? One hint of a negative answer may lie in the fact that the U.S. has long imposed the lengthiest sentences of any industrialized nation in the world, while also being one of the most crime-ridden. A more direct rebuttal came last week from the Fortune Society, a New York-based self-help group of former convicts. Distressed that politicians never...
...married in Stockholm. Now he wants to return to the U.S. "I have a feeling for the U.S. and the future," he says. "I'm not cynical. I hope things go better." Yet he realizes that as a deserter who escaped while under arrest, he faces even stiffer penalties than most of his fellow exiles...