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...Gerald Ford, counseled Nixon to release the tapes. New York's Conservative Senator James Buckley said: "I think the consensus of the American people will be that the President, while he has the right to exercise the [Executive] privilege, ought not to be exercising it." His brother, Columnist William F. Buckley, wrote last week: "The argument of Executive privilege is too abstract and too implausible to capture the popular imagination. [Americans] will take the President's refusal as grounds for properly drawing adverse inferences." Kansas' Senator Robert Dole, the former Republican National Committee chairman, reported his popular...
...demand for the release of Kozo Okamoto, the only survivor of the three-man Japanese murder team that carried out last year's massacre at Lod. His two companions were killed; Okamoto was captured and sentenced to life imprisonment by an Israeli court. (At the time, a columnist for the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz made a disturbingly prophetic argument for executing Okamoto: "As long as the Japanese murderer is in Israeli hands, he becomes an operational objective, an invitation for murder and extortion against Israel and its citizens." In light of Israel's long-established practice...
William F. Buckley, the conservative columnist, had some oblique words of praise for President Bok in his June 20 column, "On the Right...
...cruise of the Mediterranean have other things in common: they are faintly pathetic has-beens and never-weres in the film business; each has his or her sordid little secret (homosexuality, alcoholism, an old shoplifting charge, etc.); all but one were present the night Clinton's gossip-columnist wife Sheila was killed by a hit-and-run driver outside his Bel Air home and can reasonably be suspected of the crime...
does not presume to anoint itself as a censor behind which the American Government may do what it pleases without disclosure and public discussion." New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker pointed out that the original Justice Department inquiry was hardly vigorous. Therefore, both Justice and the Senate "need to know that an independent press is holding their feet to the fire." The Milwaukee Journal, the Chicago Sun-Times and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch all argued along a similar vein: that bringing out the full truth must take priority over assuring successful criminal prosecutions...