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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Supreme Commander, he was both impressive and persuasive. When Al Haig fixes those eyes on you and urges you to do this or that, there is virtually no way to refuse him without feeling you've let him down badly. He's no hip-shooting cold warrior, either, but a tough realist, better than Vance or Muskie in dealing with the Soviets...
...What was Haig's role in the Saturday Night Massacre? When Nixon wanted to fire Archibald Cox, the first Watergate special prosecutor, Haig joined in a scheme designed to force Cox either to agree to stop seeking more Nixon tapes or to resign. The plan involved having Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, 72, a respected but hard-of-hearing Senator, listen to certain key tapes and verify the accuracy of transcripts to be made by the White House and turned over to the Senate Watergate Committee instead of the tapes. Haig got Stennis and Watergate Committee Members Sam Ervin...
...Either because of a psychological fear of shortages or because it is in their interest to let the price of oil rise and then make more money. They are clever people...
...just that rationale that prompted the Senate to include a sentence-appeal provision in its version of the proposed mammoth revision of the criminal code, which has been lumbering through Congress for 14 years. As drafted, the provision would permit either side in a federal case to appeal sentences that fall outside a middle range. Under present law the Government may appeal only when the defendant is judged a dangerous special offender (like DiFrancesco) or a "special drug offender." As for defendants, they can appeal only sentences that are cruel and unusual, discriminatory, or beyond the statutory range...
...media should be reduced. With the Le Monde case pending, and with the French press united as never before against him on the issue, the President may do well to remember a lesson of history: the original Watergate did not prevent an American President from being re-elected either -but the matter did not end there...