INVESTIGATIONS: The Watergate Probe

Despite the high political risk to the Republican Administration, the Justice Department's investigation into the bugging of Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington's Watergate office complex is moving cautiously ahead. A federal grand jury this week is scheduled to quiz officials of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President on what they know about the affair. Admits one: "The FBI is all over this place." Last week a lawyer who had represented the five men arrested on June 17 in the Watergate was charged by a federal judge with contempt of...

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