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...other than the cover-up conspiracy. Nixon could also be summoned as a prosecution witness and be granted specific immunity against use of his testimony in other jurisdictions. As a prosecution witness, he could be asked questions going beyond topics that the defendants wish to introduce. Judge Sirica could subpoena Nixon as a court witness, further expanding the range of queries. Unless Nixon can satisfy Sirica that he is medically incapable of appearing, his day in court still looms ahead...
...addition, private citizens claiming injury because of Watergate activities may well sue Nixon for damages. Dershowitz anticipates a number of lawsuits against the former President from "people who were surveilled, audited, wiretapped and so on." The plaintiffs will doubtless seek to subpoena evidence and force testimony from Nixon...
...COMMISSION. Ford could appoint a commission to lay bare the full Watergate story, much as the Warren Commission (of which Ford was a member) studied the assassination of President Kennedy. From Congress, the commission could obtain subpoena power to compel Nixon and his former associates to testify and surrender all of the evidence in their possession. Congress could also give the commission authority to grant witnesses immunity from prosecution so that Nixon's former aides, like himself, could not refuse to testify on the basis of constitutional rights against selfincrimination...
...economists' minisummit this week, Heller will propose a wide-ranging program featuring a Government wage-price agency that could subpoena company and union records, order large increases suspended while it held hearings, and even roll back "really flagrant" boosts. Other Heller ideas that are widely backed by liberals include: an immediate easing in Federal Reserve monetary policy to head off a recession; credit controls to channel more loan money to home builders and buyers and small businesses, less to speculators; a huge Government program to hire the unemployed for public-service jobs; tax cuts of $6 billion...
...Rush favor more Administration "jawboning" against big wage and price boosts. President Ford himself asked for and signed into law last week a bill creating a new Council on Wage and Price Stability, headed by Rush, that will monitor increases and decry those that seem excessive. It has no subpoena, suspension or rollback powers, but these could be added if the council proves ineffective. A surprising number of economists, ranging ideologically from Joseph Pechman, a former adviser to George McGovern, to Milton Friedman, onetime adviser to Barry Goldwater, predict that Ford eventually will feel compelled to revive full wage-price...