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...defend his constitutional battle to save them from scrutiny, a major legal question, with much passion. Nor does he depict his progress towards impeachment with anything much beyond a description of eroding congressional support, as if it were a doomed legislative proposal and not an investigation of gross misconduct. He occasionally states calmly, as if it were natural, that he became convinced at various times that various people were "out to get him." That is all. There is something Speer-like in this blank recitation of his role by the major participant in a crisis that at once paralyzed...
...documented series of articles that exposed local police brutality and that have to date led to the indictment of 15 policemen. So far nine have been convicted and three acquitted, and three are awaiting trial. Seven more cops have been arrested, and two others have pleaded guilty to departmental misconduct charges. In addition, the local district attorney has created a special unit to prosecute police misconduct, the police department has strengthened a civilian complaint procedure, the state legislature and the U.S. Civil Rights Commission have announced hearings on the Philadelphia police. Last week Neumann and Marimow won this year...
...Berger-Mansueto, Inc. [MBM]--University of Massachusetts construction contract. The $6 million contract between the state and the MBM construction company led last February to the convictions of former state senators Joseph J.C. DiCarlo and Ronald C. MacKenzie on charges of extorting money from the company. The allegations of misconduct, however, did not end there, and the state is continuing to investigate the relations between MBM and state officials...
Though a version of the law has been on the books for eleven years, Watergate and revelations of FBI and CIA misconduct led to a radical change in its use. Over Gerald Ford's veto. Congress in 1974 amended the law, which now sets deadlines for responding, bans excessive copying fees for documents, and provides that winners of Freedom of Information court cases should have their legal fees paid for by the Government. Attorney General Griffin Bell applied another spur to information seekers last May, when he warned all Government agencies that his department would not defend them...
John Abbott, Harrington's press secretary, said yesterday he knew of no similar charges of misconduct in the past...