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...tips were pure gold, but seldom freely proffered. Woodward and Bernstein received no sudden revelation of Watergate's wider dimensions, used no James Bond wiles to score their scoops. They dug out the story in tortuously mined fragments, relying on shrewd hunches, dogged legwork and constant checking. Their efforts paid off on the night of Sept. 28, 1972, when a phone call from an unidentified Government lawyer steered Bernstein to a Tennessee state official, Alex Shipley, who said that he had been approached in June 1971 by Donald Segretti, an Army pal from Viet Nam days. Segretti wanted Shipley...
...renaissance Gomes has brought into the Church through the speakers and his own services has attracted a wider audience. "Our attendance is growing," he says proudly, "but more interesting is the fact that the congregation is changing. We are getting more undergraduates and young families...
...cities. Smaller, more accurate weapons add a new dimension to the nuclear threat: they make small-scale nuclear strikes feasible, thus eliminating the previous deterrent of vast destruction and increasing the chances that they will be used. Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger claims they are needed "to develop a wider variety of options...in crisis situations." But the proposed armaments only lead to a wider variety of options for all-out nuclear war to begin, through conscious choice, panic or negligence...
...those who have retained jobs. Those earning monthly salaries have not been affected and, needless to say, though the industrialists grumble about bad trading prospects, they still live a very comfortable life. In the past four years the gap between the rich and the poor in Britain has grown wider...
Clearly, a lot more misconduct than this can be adduced against Nixon, even with the wider latitude now given to Presidents. But it is only fair to note that dubious behavior by other recent Presidents did not lead to their impeachment. The New York City Bar argues that Congress should impeach Nixon "only if it would be prepared to take the same action against any President who engaged in comparable conduct in similar circumstances." The issue is not how good a President Nixon has been, or how popular he is, or whether he has had foreign policy successes or economic...