WATERGATE: The Hearings Resume
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Just because the witnesses get tough or the evidence might touch on the Senators' own political practices and both political parties, is no reason for the committee to ignore its Senate mandate.
It is in the fuzzy and complex area of shady campaign practices and in the scandalous system of campaign contributions that remedial legislation is most urgently needed. There are, after all, plenty of effective laws against burglary, wiretapping and obstruction of justice—as many former Nixon associates are all too personally discovering.
* Hunt's wife Dorothy was killed last December in the crash of a United Air Lines jet approaching the Chicago-Midway Airport. She was carrying $10,000 in $100 bills. Last week the National Transportation Safety Board formally rejected allegations of sabotage in the accident, blaming it on errors by the pilot and other cockpit personnel.
* McGovern had said that Watergate-style wiretapping was "the kind of thing that you expect from a person like Hitler" and that "except for Adolf Hitler's extermination of the Jewish people, the American bombardment of defenseless peasants in Indochina is the most barbaric act of modern time."
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