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...While he personally remained convinced of the President's innocence in Watergate and related matters, Ford nonetheless believed that Nixon should forthwith produce whatever documents are necessary to exonerate himself. Said Ford: "Whatever doubts there are must be cleared...
Second, we are prepared to accept a cease-fire on condition that the Israeli forces withdraw forthwith from all the occupied territories under international supervision...
...refused to comment on Nwafor's charge but said that the search committee had only had preliminary meetings which he described as "harmonious." In his statement, Nwafor said, "Nevertheless it remains imperative that the search committee should discharge its duties with resolute vigor, and to make its mandated appointments forthwith to arrest further disintegration and an imminent collapse in the department...
...President of the United States." And in the Pentagon papers case, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger criticized the New York Times for failing "to perform one of the basic and simple duties of every citizen" when it became aware of stolen property. "That duty ... was to report forthwith to responsible officers. This duty rests on taxi drivers, Justices and the New York Times." It is because of observations like these that many legal scholars guess that the President would lose a court test against a Cox grand jury, and sooner or later must yield...
...mounting disaffection with the Cámpora government came to a head last week. Shouting "Power to Perón!" Peronist workers threatened to paralyze the nation with a general strike unless Cámpora and his Cabinet quit forthwith. Peronist congressmen likewise agitated for Cámpora's ouster, as did moderate party members within the Justicialist movement. The only major opposition to Perón came from left-wing Peronist youth, who feared that a sudden change of heads of government would signal a shift to the right and thus scuttle their chance of turning Argentina toward...