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...acquired. St. Clair complained that the committee seemed to be asking for "hundreds of thousands of documents and thousands of hours of recorded conversations covering the widest variety of subjects." He suggested that the committee "determine what is an impeachable offense" before demanding the evidence. Implicit was the likelihood that St. Clair would reject requests that did not fit his own limited interpretation of impeachable acts...
...government's ambitious goals on nationalization are more doubtful. Said a senior Wilson aide: "My guess would be that [the Cabinet] will make haste slowly." The likelihood is that only building land for residential and industrial development and port facilities and trucking will become state owned. On North Sea oil, the Wilson government is expected to seek a 51%-49% partnership with the oil companies in licensing agreements but will stop short of outright nationalization...
When U.S. District Court Judge J. Robert Elliott abruptly ended the 35-month confinement of Army Lieut. William L. Calley Jr. last week, the judge observed that he saw "no likelihood" that Calley would flee. Why should he? Under the terms of his sentence, he was comfortably confined to his $111-a-month, two-bedroom apartment at Fort Benning, Ga., where he passed the months watching television, building model airplanes, boning up on oceanography and ancient history through correspondence courses, growing vegetables and flowers in his backyard, and talking with his pet mynah bird. Calley, 30, has also enjoyed almost...
...pleas of guilty last week. Only then did he resign from the firm that had soared so high so fast since the election of 1968. He also quit as chairman and a director of the Bank of Newport, which he founded two years ago. Kalmbach now faces the likelihood that he will be disbarred, but even if he never practiced again, he would likely remain a wealthy man: he has sizable real estate holdings-mainly apartment houses and office buildings-in California and Hawaii...
...only way to cope with U.S. terrorist kidnapers may be simply to deal with each case individually and patiently. "Talk, talk, talk and never give in," says Norval Morris, director of the University of Chicago's Center for Studies in Criminal Justice. "Every contact with kidnapers increases the likelihood of finding out where they...