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...case, were the result of a controversial Justice Department practice of prosecuting antiwar, anti-Administration activists for allegedly illegal plots. The prosecutions have involved at least 100 investigations in 36 states that have returned more than 400 indictments, but led to only one-tenth as many convictions, many on lesser charges...
...Judge John J. Sirica, 69, is responsible for what the nation is learning about Watergate. It was he who presided over the trial of the Watergate Seven and, by delaying sentencing, persuaded James McCord to break ranks with his fellow convicted burglars and talk in hopes of a lesser jail term. Watergate has been unraveling in full view ever since. Fittingly, it has fallen to Judge Sirica to referee this week the first full round in the battle for the White House tapes, now under subpoena by both the Senate Watergate committee and Special Prosecutor Archibald...
...documents to which Colson referred all dealt with efforts by ITT in early 1971 to enlist the Administration's support in quashing three separate antitrust suits under way against the corporation. U.S. district courts had previously ruled against the Government in two of the cases, which involved two lesser ITT subsidiaries, Grinnell Corp. and Canteen Corp. But Richard W. McLaren, head of the Justice Department's antitrust division, who had strenuously pressed the litigation, had already made known the Government's intention to appeal to the Supreme Court. The third and most important case, involving...
...Sherman brothers' rather bland musical score is for the most part tolerable, even though many of the lyrics seem womewhat stilted and pointless. The indefinite and indecisive nature of the music itself (is it supposed to be Dixieland or isn't it?) reminded this listener of much of the lesser material found in Disney's Mary Poppins, an earlier Sherman-Sherman songwriting opus...
...Inability to unite. European nations complain that they are being treated separately and as lesser powers by the U.S. But they have failed to get together in a united Western Europe grouping that might deal on more nearly equal terms with the superpowers and maintain its own united nuclear force...