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...department's files state that Segretti, a 31-year-old registered Democrat and a former Treasury Department lawyer, was hired in September 1971 by Dwight Chapin, a deputy assistant to the President, and Gordon Strachan, a staff assistant at the White House. Chapin is the President's most trusted aide-de-camp and acts as a liaison between Nixon and his giant staff. For his services, Segretti was paid by Herbert Kalmbach, Nixon's personal attorney who has handled such matters as the acquisition of Nixon's estate at San Clemente, Calif. Segretti's recompense...
...Wednesday, only New York remained on strike, isolated from the rest of the country and under increasing pressure to end its resistance. Administration officials had already begun meeting with union leaders in Washington to hammer out a pay-raise agreement. New York City Postmaster John Strachan tried to win over the strikers with an offer of amnesty; other postal officials undermined unionists' confidence with overoptimistic reports of the troops' effectiveness in handling the mail. The federal court joined the siege. U.S. District Judge Frederick Bryan found Gustave Johnson, president of New York's Branch 36, N.A.L.C...
...arraigned last week for, as he put it, "fulfilling the recognized duty of a newspaper." As Gandar saw that duty, it included publishing a 1965 expose of conditions in South Africa's prisons, re lated mainly by an artist and onetime air force lieutenant named Harold Strachan. During three years as a political prisoner, Strachan recounted, he frequently saw black prisoners whipped, kicked and tortured with shocks from an electrotherapy machine. The Mail collected an affidavit from Strachan, and sworn corroborating statements from two warders and two ex-prison ers, to back up a sensational series of stories...
...prisons, the government investigated Gandar's sources. One by one, they were convicted of making false statements, on the strength of testimony from a parade of government witnesses -despite a presiding magistrate's suspicions that the witnesses were painting "too rosy a picture" of prison life. Strachan was sent back to jail and served 18 months. With the Mail's informants thus legally discredited, the government finally moved against Gandar, long a nettlesome critic, and against the reporter who wrote the original series, Benjamin Pogrund...
...conviction opens the way for prosecution of crusading Johannesburg Editor Laurence Gandar, who for years has been one of Verwoerd's most nettlesome critics. Gandar ordered his Rand Daily Mail to publish Strachan's story after a thorough check convinced him that it was true. Obviously, he should have known better...