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...government. First the Energy Department raised the specter of sewage flowing in the streets as a result of power shortages (sewage pumps are electrically powered), then it announced that fuel supplies were ample enough to go back to a four-or five-day week. That possibility has now been withdrawn in the face of a strike. Then Heath was undecided whether or not to call for an immediate election. That, too, has been abandoned at least for the time being, probably because the Tories fear that they might lose. Other gloomy developments for the Tories...
...could not recall what, if anything, had been withdrawn or put into it. Nor could he remember why, as the log showed, he opened it again at 2:05 a.m. and closed it at 2:11. Bull earlier had been startled by one Ben-Veniste question: "Was Mr. Haldeman at Key Biscayne at the time?" If he was, said Bull, "I did not see him." The prosecutor admitted that the question was a shot in the dark; he had no information that Haldeman had been in Florida then...
...tape had been held only by Bull, Miss Woods, Bu-zhardt, John C. Bennett and the President. Bennett, a retired Army major general and White House aide who took over custody of all the tapes from the Secret Service on July 18, had testified that no one had withdrawn it until Sept. 28, the day before Miss Woods began transcribing it at Camp David. He first took physical possession of the tape on Nov. 13 when he had a court-ordered copy made?at a time when the Uher recorder was incapable of recording. Buzhardt is not known to have...
...days later. The White House had just discovered that the appointment was il legal, the result of an administrative error. A President of the U.S. is prohibited by law from appointing his or her spouse to a Government agency. The First Lady's name was to be withdrawn, and another temporary chairman was to be appointed...
...atmosphere is so volatile that anything can happen. The friend of a woman about to be hired by the Toyokawa Credit Bank happened to say to an acquaintance, perhaps jokingly, that the bank was about to go bankrupt. Within 13 hours, 4,800 depositors had withdrawn $5,000,000 from the bank and eight of its branches. "I still don't know what hit us," groaned Bank Chairman Bunichi Matsui...