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...former chief of staff was paroled in time for Christmas. "This is generally considered a special time of the year to rejoice, and it sure is for me," said Haldeman. Two days later, John Mitchell, the last of the Watergate gang still behind bars, was permitted a five-day Christmas furlough...
Meanwhile, Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance flew back from his five-day Middle East tour yesterday without gaining further Arab support for the Camp David accords...
...dismiss the lawyer who had been assigned to him by the KGB in place of the attorney he had requested and been denied. Conducting his own defense, Shcharansky made a one-hour opening statement to the presiding judge and two lay assessors who constituted a jury. During the five-day trial, his brother later reported, Shcharansky was frequently interrupted by the judge, prohibited from calling defense witnesses and forbidden to question government witnesses...
...congress came just a year after the party had been legalized by the government of Premier Adolfo Suárez González and a scant ten months after it won a disappointing 9% of the popular vote in general elections. The focal point of the five-day meeting, called "a Communist debate for democracy and socialism," was Carrillo's proposal to drop the party's "Leninist" label in favor of "Marxist, democratic and revolutionary." Even prior to the congress, the proposal, which is known as Thesis XV, had upset several provincial and regional party conferences. The furor...
...August, EGA Chief Investigator William Recktenwald, 36, an ex-cop, and Zekman, 33, were at the Mirage, serving up beer (and bribes). Also staffing the bar were Sun-Times Reporter Zay Smith, 28, who boned up for the story with a five-day stint at bartending school, and EGA Investigator Jeff Allen, 28. Sun-Times photographers, posing as repairmen, filmed the payoffs from a concealed loft...