Forty years after the explosive leak of the Pentagon Papers, a secret government study chronicling deception and misadventure in US conduct of the Vietnam War, the report is being officially released.

FOLLOWING a break of some two weeks, it will be smashing to get back into the swing of things at Kempton this afternoon.

FOLLOWING a break of some two weeks, it will be smashing to get back into the swing of things at Kempton this afternoon.

FREE Education for Everyone, with the inapt acronym FEE, organised up to 1,000 student signatures in protest against the appointment of former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern as a visiting professor at NUI Maynooth (NUIM). They called on the college authorities to suspend the appointment, at least until after the publication of the Mahon tribunal report.

ONE man was in custody in Limerick last night after a terror hijacking in which a young woman was held captive in a stolen car as it sped through the city.

DISGRACED former US president Richard Nixon and his 1972 re-election campaign tried to tie Democrats to the mob, gay liberation and even slavery, according to newly released papers and tapes.

Residents in some of Limerick’s troubled housing estates will no longer have to turn directly to gardai in the battle against anti-social behaviour.

HOWARD HUNT, who helped organise the Watergate break-in that led to the greatest scandal in American political history and the downfall of Richard Nixon’s presidency, has died.

Howard Hunt, who helped organise the Watergate break-in that led to the greatest scandal in American political history and the downfall of Richard Nixon’s presidency, has died.

A state funeral for Gerald Ford will return him to the US Congress that he served on his way to an unplanned and unelected presidency.

A CHANCE encounter in 1970 grew into a friendship that became the Deep Throat source that helped bring down Richard Nixon, reporter Bob Woodward wrote in The Washington Post yesterday.

EVEN with Deep Throat out of the shadows, mystery remains about the Watergate break-in more than 30 years after Richard Nixon resigned as president.

Jim Caldwell sheds some light on the man of mystery who helped bring down a president

Victoria Ward, New York

PRIVATE Lynndie England, 21, was brought before a court in North Carolina this week to decide whether to court martial her for abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. She could face up to 38 years in jail.

Former US President Richard Nixon called Ronald Reagan “strange” and an “uncomfortable man to be around,” according to White House tapes.

Two prisoners who escaped from Limerick prison today have been recaptured.