Nation IN BRIEF : NEW YORK : Watergate Book’s Claims Attacked

Howls of denial and disbelief are greeting “Silent Coup: The Removal of a President,” a new book that purports to reveal secrets of the Watergate scandal. Chief among the critics is former Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein, who with Bob Woodward played a major role in breaking the Watergate story. He said that the claim made in the book, written by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin, that Alexander M. Haig Jr., once President Richard M. Nixon’s chief of staff, was Woodward’s secret “Deep Throat” source is completely wrong.