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While pushing the cover-up prosecution, Jaworski's busy staff also netted another top Nixon associate in a somewhat peripheral phase of the Watergate scandal?but one that also has serious implications for Nixon. Kalmbach, the President's personal lawyer, pleaded guilty to two charges: 1) violating the Federal Corrupt Practices Act by helping create and run a secret committee in 1970 for which he collected nearly $4 million for congressional candidates but had no treasurer or chairman and failed to file reports as required by law; 2) soliciting and accepting a $100,000 political contribution in 1970 from...
HERBERT W. KALMBACH, 52, one of Nixon's personal attorneys. Pleaded guilty to violation of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act and to an illegal offer of an ambassadorship in exchange for campaign contributions; as yet unsentenced...
...national parliamentary elections, Mrs. Gandhi was at the peak of her popularity, and she and the Congress Party won overwhelmingly in Uttar Pradesh. Though she is still respected there, the state government has been shoddy and corrupt and as feudalistic as the ancient Moslem regimes that were displaced by the British. Indeed, in the past year the state has been beset by a provincial-police mutiny, widespread rioting and looting prompted by food shortages, soaring inflation, power failures, unemployment, vicious black markets and bureaucratic incompetence. As a result, Mrs. Gandhi was reluctantly forced to fire her hand-picked state government...
...highlights of the policeman's career and life. These chart the growth of the man's disillusionment and discontent, as well as the strength of his personal integrity. The film develops with its title character: the derailment of Serpico's life both by those police who were corrupt and those who refused to inflict punishment, carries as much emotional power as the dismantling of bugler Prewitt at the hands of the U.S. infantry...
...important, under your leadership, The Crimson constantly reminded us of the continual destruction wrought by our country in Southeast Asia. Though I believe you have romanticized the role of the NLF, you have been on target in your denunciation of the corrupt and repressive Thieu regime...