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...cases, except treason, felony and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest" and only during "attendance at the session." That means that they could be arrested for treason and felony - bribery, for example - even during a session. The narrow privilege thus granted to Congress was consciously withheld from the President. Finally, an act of 1790 passed by the first Congress provided that a judge could be indicted for bribery and that he could be disqualified from office if convicted...
...Pakistan's closest ally, China has withheld recognition of Bangladesh, and last year used its veto in the Security Council to deny it U.N. membership. Some sources in Dacca now believe that Peking will recognize Bangladesh even before Pakistan does. That would allow the Chinese to recover a profitable market for their manufactured goods-and offset the favorable impression that Moscow made in Bangladesh by its postwar relief efforts...
...strategy sometimes backfires. One man learned halfway through a cruise that his six-year-old son had been seriously injured in a car accident; he had to be sedated until he reached shore. On the other hand, word that his four-year-old son had been run over was withheld from another submariner; he was so enraged when he finally learned about the accident that he threatened to kill a Navy officer...
...hear it. In that case, he could simply give the jurors the tapes in their entirety. On the other hand, Sirica said that if the tapes turn out to be irrelevant to the investigation-or if privileged material cannot be separated from the unprivileged-the tapes would be withheld, as Nixon has demanded all along...
Frail Peg. Where the President was concerned, said Mitchell, his policy in effect had been "speak no evil," and the President had been quite ready to see and hear no evil. Mitchell claimed that he withheld what he knew from the President in their many conversations. Mitchell also claimed to be convinced, not by anything the President said but by what was not said in those conversations, that no one else, including John Dean, had told the President who had been involved in the Watergate planning or its cover-up until at least nine months after the arrests at Democratic...