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> The Federal Grand Jury in Washington. Convened as a routine grand jury twelve days before the Watergate break-in last June, it has returned indictments against seven conspirators, all now convicted, and many more indictments are expected. A rather typical Washington jury—about two-thirds of its members are black and more than half are women—it began by passively following the guidance of Assistant U.S. Attorney Earl J. Silbert, but it soon developed an eagerness to interrogate witnesses under the lead of Foreman Vladimir Pregelj, a Yugoslav-born economist at the Library of Congress.
>The Federal Grand Jury in New York. Following up a long probe by the SEC, it began an investigation in late January of the $200,000 contribution by Financier Robert Vesco to the Committee for the Re-Election of the President (C.R.P.). After last week's indictment of Vesco, John Mitchell, Maurice Stans and Harry L. Sears, it may hand up more indictments during its remaining six months. In other grand jury action, a federal panel in Orlando, Fla., has indicted G.O.P. Operative Donald Segretti for distributing a phony letter on Edmund Muskie's stationery accusing Hubert Humphrey and Henry M. Jackson of sexual misconduct.
>The General Accounting Office. Charged with reporting violations of the 1971 campaign-spending act, the congressional watchdog has taken numerous complaints to the Justice Department and given them wide publicity. Justice has levied a total of eight fines of $1,000 each against C.R.P.
> The U.S. Justice Department. Initially, Attorney General Richard Kleindienst and Henry Petersen, chief of the Criminal Division, ordered the FBI not to track down the sources of the campaign contributions that financed Watergate. But as the scandal has widened and pressures have built, both the FBI and federal prosecutors have been given a freer hand. The FBI is currently checking into several angles, including the Los Angeles break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist.