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...know what's going on in this campaign and I don't think you ought to try to know." And when Liddy, depressed because his plan for the burglary seemed to be getting no where, approached Dean early in 1972, Dean gave him a moral stiff-arm: "Well, Gordon, you recall that we're not going to talk about that...
...surface composure he may soon be persuaded that he can no longer hang tough and stonewall. He still faces two more trials: one in California for perjury in connection with the Ellsberg case, one in Washington for his role in the Watergate coverup. With the prospect of receiving stiff sentences from unsympathetic judges, he may choose to start telling more of what he knows about Watergate. If he does make a deal, he might topple some other top White House dominoes...
Parkhurst expects stiff opposition to the bill from a broad spectrum of transportation concerns, including the railroads, the American Trucking Associations, Inc., the Teamsters and especially the large fleet trucking companies. Yet he says he hopes that the independent truckers acquired enough national standing last winter to be able to put the bill through on their...
...youngest assemblyman in 1961. He was elected to the state senate six years later, in 1968 ran for Lieutenant Governor and won, and in 1972 was elected Governor. "A politician who does not respond to public opinion will find himself in trouble," he says pragmatically. After running into stiff opposition from environmentalists, he has recently soft-pedaled efforts to promote tourism and industry...
...caused injuries and illnesses (some 2.4 million disabling industrial injuries were reported in 1972 alone; many others doubtless went unreported). OSHA was empowered to set national standards to replace a welter of conflicting health and safety guidelines, send inspectors to factories, stores and offices to check on compliance, levy stiff fines on violators and even order unsafe businesses to close down. In operation, however, OSHA has pleased almost no one. Labor leaders complain, correctly, that job-accident rates have not dropped, and charge that OSHA lacks the money and manpower to begin to do its job adequately. Many businessmen protest...