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...large, what the House of Representatives does best in the best of times, and in this election year most Congressmen shrink from such a mandate like the plague. It heaps too much responsibility on their shoulders, forces them to step out ahead of the people and commit themselves to a position that could later prove disastrously unpopular. What they would like to do is wait until public opinion crystallizes and they have unequivocal marching orders. The production of fresh evidence in the months ahead before the vote could provide those orders. In the meantime, no one wants to act precipitately...
What worries South Viet Nam's generals is the 30,000 additional troops Hanoi has sent South in the past year, bringing its total to some 170,000 - more than at any other time in the war. To support these forces, Hanoi has commit ted 700 heavy artillery pieces and 300 tracked vehicles, including T-54 and T-55 heavy tanks; it has built a network of strategically important roads running from the Demilitarized Zone in the North to within 100 miles of Saigon. It also has refurbished twelve former U.S. airfields and set up SA-2 missile sites...
Former President Richard M. Nixon, sentenced to 55 years in prison for conspiracy to commit burglary, income tax evasion, obstruction of justice, and contempt of Congress, tells an anxious nation how he plans to spend his time in jail. "I really don't know. Maybe I'll smoke a little dope, listen to some Allman Brothers, read Kahlil Gibran," the ex-president muses...
...defendants, but the range of criminal charges against them is appalling. It includes perjury, burglary, illegal wiretapping, obstruction of justice, destruction of evidence, fraud, extortion, solicitation of illegal campaign contributions, violation of campaign funding laws, subornation of perjury, illegal distribution of campaign literature, and various forms of conspiracy to commit illegal acts. No such litany of illegality has ever before been officially leveled against the associates of any U.S. President...
...half he had fought the U.S. extradition demand. But impoverished Paraguay, threatened with the loss of U.S. aid (currently $9,000,000), finally gave him up. The State Department insists there was nothing unusual about the case. A person need not be present in a country to commit a crime against it. Ricord's Manhattan attorney, Herbert I. Handman, sees things differently. "If Ricord were involved in anything but a narcotics case," he says, "there would be a universal hue and cry." But the U.S. Supreme Court turned down his appeal...