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...Parker thereupon jolted Helms, Wil-iams and Civiletti by declining to wrap up the deal right then and there. When Williams demurred, Parker asked: "You had hoped that I would sentence him today?" Replied Williams: "Both the Government and I had hoped that you would do that." The judge was not to be hurried. "Well, Mr. Williams, I am like a ship without a rudder. I am a fish out of the sea. I do not have any report or anything to aid me in sentencing...
From mug shots Ponto's widow and chauffeur identified the second woman a Eleonore Maria Poensgen, 23, another radical from an upstanding family. Police arrested her, but witnesses placed he elsewhere at the time of the shooting. Investigators thereupon turned their search toward a look-alike 22-year-old nurse named Adelheid Schulz who, like Poensgen, had a dossier in the computer...
...Nixon appointee still heading the General Services Administration. The Government was to ship Nixon's "presidential materials" to a warehouse near San Clemente, and Nixon could veto anyone's access to them. After ten years or Nixon's death, the GSA would destroy the tapes. Congress thereupon passed a bill authorizing seizure of the Nixon papers and making them available for any court proceeding and-eventually-to the public. Nixon sued...
...first meeting privately with President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, as the carefully prepared schedule called for, Brezhnev broke protocol, summoning a number of ministers and other aides from both sides to his temporary residence, Château Rambouillet. the luxurious 14th century castle 33 miles southwest of Paris. Thereupon he launched into a 2½-hr. dissertation on détente and disarmament. Brezhnev defended the Soviet Union as the only country in the world that had incorporated the principles of the Helsinki summit in its constitution...
...though it held him prisoner, the government found it difficult to bring him to trial. In Turin, Curcio and 52 others faced charges of armed insurrection (maximum penalty: life imprisonment). The Red Brigades responded by assassinating a prominent jurist; the trial was thereupon postponed. When the distinguished septuagenarian president of the Turin bar asked to aid in Curcio's defense, he was shot to death near his office. Curcio, who demanded the right to conduct his own defense, declared that the lawyer was a "collaborationist of the regime" and had been "executed." As the Turin trial was rescheduled...