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Though provoked by Solzhenitsyn's defiance, the Soviet leaders' action against him was doubtless calculated to deprive the dissident movement within Russia of its spiritual leader while further intimidating the regime's remaining critics. About 50 dissidents have been detained and interrogated in the past three weeks, and many feared that Sakharov might soon be deported too. "We now feel very naked, very alone," a young liberal intellectual told Correspondent John Shaw in Moscow last week...
...fact, Nixon's new game plan of an all-out fight against impeachment, coupled with White House efforts to depict the House process as a political vendetta rather than a judicial inquiry, is doubtless aimed at the vote of the House on the committee's finding. The President knows that the members of the House are caught on the horns of a cruel dilemma, indeed several dilemmas. They have been sent back to Washington with contradictory messages from the folks at home. Most Americans think that the President is guilty of one charge or another in the Watergate...
...before he died, Country Singer Tex Ritter recorded the editorial as well, with America behind him, and that version has sold 250,000 copies. For all three records, the royalties -which go to the American Red Cross -have come to more than $150,000 thus far. The enormous response doubtless reflects the deep desire in the U.S. -amid the troubles of Watergate, inflation and shortages -for reassurance and a few kind words on the nation's behalf...
...Peace Prize, North Vietnamese Politburo Member Le Due Tho.* Later, a U.S. spokesman said that the 4½-hour meeting at the Hotel Majestic had been "good-humored" and that the two men had agreed to keep the "channel of communication" between them open. The paucity of detail was doubtless a reflection of the fact that the cease-fire in South Viet Nam is not working according to plan...
...were pleased that someone of the Chiefs stature had finally addressed the problem. "Judges and lawyers have been talking about this privately for years," commented Federal Appeals Court Judge Irving Kaufman, "but they've hesitated to say it publicly." Most attorneys who now specialize in trial work will doubtless support the proposal; for opponents, Burger had a warning: "The views of practitioners who are affected cannot be controlling any more than we allow the automobile or drug industry to have control of safety or public health standards. There are 'consumers' of justice whose rights and interests must...