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...another St. Clair action, the attorney served notice that he will appeal an order by Judge Sirica that a 17-minute segment of one Nixon conversation dealing with the Internal Revenue Service be given to Jaworski. So far only Judge Sirica has had access to the tape. Sirica had originally withheld the segment in a belief that IRS matters were not relevant to Jaworski's Watergate investigations. Advised recently by Jaworski that White House attempts to use the IRS for political purposes were under investigation, Sirica changed his mind...
Congress appears willing to give the armed services just about everything they want in their budget for fiscal 1975. Acting on the first major segment of the budget submitted to Congress, the Senate last week voted to authorize $21.8 billion for weapons purchases and research, some $1.3 billion less than the Defense Department sought; the House earlier approved $22.6 billion. Complains Democratic Senator Thomas J. Mclntyre of New Hampshire, a Pentagon critic: "If there is a question of more strength, the Senators feel it would be best to err on the side of strength...
...however, has decided to go to extremes with the longest-running, shortest commemorative of them all. Beginning on July 4, it will offer a prime-time TV series called Bicentennial Minutes, which will run every night of every week until B-day, July 4, 1976. Each segment is exactly one minute long...
Begun by the Beatles a decade ago, the rock revolution succeeded beyond everyone's wildest dreams. Rock defined an emerging segment of America, financed a counterculture, and spawned a $2 billion industry. Its principal gift to those who were young in the 1960s was to provide a common means of expression-a common music, a common language, even a kind of cathartic theater in which a Janis Joplin assumed almost mythic dimensions as a tragic heroine and Dylan strolled the stage like an Orpheus. It is no secret that rock's classic era is gone forever, along with...
...presidential transcripts leaves me with mixed feelings. I am relieved to see that their sense of what constitutes proper behavior by a U.S. President is not so different from my own. But I am shocked to learn that the men responsible for delivering the news to such a large segment of the U.S. population could be so lacking in insight that they were surprised by the transcripts' revelations...