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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of the testimony most damaging to Ehrlichman was given last week by Egil Krogh, former head of the plumbers unit. He told the court that Ehrlichman admitted to him that he had been forced to "dissemble" in discussing the break-in with the FBI. Assistant Special Prosecutor William Merrill asked Krogh to define "dissemble." Said Krogh: "To be less than candid...
...imperfections in their teammates' rowing technique, so that after racing a season together, the boat is almost perfectly balanced, and there is as little resistance as possible to the shell cutting through the water. The crew had achieved this near-perfect swing after months of working together as a unit, but it all disappeared with the loss of Howard and McKenna...
...official said he anticipates a $457,000 deficit for the year ending June 1974. The monthly deficit for a state-funded CHA housing unit is $71.34, Sheldon Isreal, an official of the DCA said yesterday. The highest previous deficit shown by a housing authority, he said, was $55 per unit per month. "We had increased [Cambridge's] budget 67 per cent from 1973 to 1974," Israel said. "They were overspending the increase by nearly 40 per cent...
...Washington courtroom last week. Assistant Special Prosecutor William Merrill charged that a few weeks before Ehrlichman was forced to resign last year, he had secretly removed three incriminating memos from a file on the plumbers in the White House-but David Young, a co-director of the secret investigating unit, had foresightedly retained copies. Said Merrill to the jury, which consists of nine blacks and three whites: "Mr. Ehrlichman lied. Why would a man like Ehrlichman lie? Because it was clear from the documents that he was implicated...
...hero, a 35-year-old civilian technician named Stringer, is attached by the terms of a lucrative contract to a special Army unit. His task: to plant sensing devices near an enemy supply trail so that "smart" bombs can home in on military convoys. He knows how to survive in the bush and is not afraid of spiders or the Viet Cong. But his motivation is uncertain, and this earns him the contempt of his partner, a hard-case Regular Army major named Price...