February 11, 2005

Classicist Compares Conspiracies of Antiquity With Today's; Publisher of 'Nature' Starts Clinical Journals

By RICHARD BYRNE and LILA GUTERMAN

UNCLOAKING DAGGERS: When Rose Mary Woods, secretary to President Richard M. Nixon, died in Alliance, Ohio, on January 22, a secret in one of America's greatest political conspiracies died with her. Just who erased more than 18 minutes of an Oval Office tape that Woods was transcribing -- a recording that included a potentially incriminating conversation between Nixon and his chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, in 1973? And what did the two men say? Woods said she erased no more than five