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...special prosecutor's investigation of Ford's use of previous campaign funds, Ruff last week also interrogated the Marine Engineers' union president, Calhoon, before a Washington grand jury. Ruff was most likely engaged in a prosecutorial practice known as "freezing testimony." This procedure puts a witness's sworn testimony into the record for possible later reference. Calhoon's responses before the grand jury may well have indicated Ford's innocence; if so, Ruff was nevertheless correctly carrying out his mandate by asking the questions in the forum...
...ironic?and potentially tragic ?effect of Ruffs punctilious performance of his duties was to leave the President possibly accused in the eyes of the public, with no certainty that all the accusations can be resolved in the few weeks before the election. Grand jury members and prosecutors are sworn to secrecy. Ruff cannot discuss any aspects of his investigation until it is completed. By removing the office of the special prosecutor from any political influence and making him responsible only to the charter under which he operates, Congress in effect required Ruff to continue to investigate even though...
...Middle West and the South in the early 1890s. The movement started with small farmers rising up against exploitative big-city manufacturers, bankers and railroad owners. In Georgia, Tom Watson, a brilliant lawyer who later became a U.S. Senator, was telling Southern yeomen that they were "the sworn foes of monopoly of power, of place, of wealth, of progress." In this, however, was the classic American doctrine of opportunity-not anticapitalism, but the insistence that, as Watson said, "the poorest, the weakest, the humblest" have a fair chance...
...first stop, at 7 a.m., was the studios of television station WHEC, where Eddie Meath, a local talk-show personality, asked if Carter used pep pills to keep going. Carter, a Baptist deacon who has sworn off even his occasional Scotch-and-soda during the campaign, smiled and said no. By 9:15, he had met with a group of would-be New York delegates in the Genesee Room of the Americana Hotel, talked with local civic leaders in the Corinthian Room, addressed a $10-a-plate breakfast in the main ballroom (he netted $500) and convened a press conference...
...destroy enough alien ships before the computer blasts your own ship to pieces have brought Star Trek top popularity among the 18 game programs available in the computer room. "You should see the atmosphere when people play Star Trek," Nat says. "Everyone gathers around cheering. But I've sworn off Star Trek. It's too expensive...