Haig inquiry job refused
NZPA Washington Terry Lenzner,, a former Watergate investigator, has said he has decided not- to accept a position with a Senate committee that will conduct hearings on the nomination of Alexander Haig to be United States Secretary of State. Mr Lenzner said he had withdrawn his name because
the panel’s Democrats and Republicans could not reach agreement on how to conduct the hearings on a bipartisan basis. He said he was concerned that if the committee did not formally endorse a bipartisan review, there was a real prospect that the headings would evolve into a partisan conflict “that might thereafter impair the oper-
ation of U.S. foreign policy. Democrats on the committee want to quiz Mr Haig on his role in the final days of the Nixon presidency. They particularly want to investigate dozens, of illegal wiretaps of Government officials from 1969 to 19/1, when Mr Haig served as top aide to Henry Kissinger, then ' National Security Adviser.
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