Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Almost from the time of his arrest, McCord testified last week, certain authorities within the White House waged a campaign of pressure, promises and threats to shut him up. This, testified McCord, was the chronology...
...Vesco, he has defied an order to appear before the grand jury, and a bench warrant was issued for his arrest. The SEC fraud suit is now before the courts; it seeks to halt further plundering from Investors Overseas Services. If this civil action is successful, the decision could well become the basis for a criminal suit against Vesco. Meanwhile, he is believed to be living in comfort in Costa Rica (see BUSINESS) and planning to become a citizen of that country...
...year-old neo-Fascist named Nico Azzi tried to blow up a crowded Turin-to-Rome train by planting a sizable charge of TNT in a washroom. Fortunately for the 500 passengers, the detonator Azzi was wiring exploded when the train suddenly lurched. Bleeding heavily, Azzi was placed under arrest and taken to a hospital. Police later revealed that he was a member of the extreme neo-Fascist Ordine Nuovo (New Order). Although he had no proven connection with M.S.I., Azzi had in fact tried to enroll in the party...
Liddy paid him in cash, McCord said, and Liddy and Hunt handled the recruiting of additional agents for the break-in squad. After the June 17 arrest, McCord testified, Hunt and his wife, who is now deceased, continued to provide him with $3000 in cash per month plus $25,000 in legal fees...
RIDING HIGH on the reckless waves of sheer spontaneity, the Beat Generation couldn't arrest its own self-destruction. But before their movement became the subject matter for ambitious "new journalists," the Beat Poets had already shaken the literary establishment by rejecting an academic formalism rooted in the poetry of Eliot and Pound. They replaced this sterile stuff with a free-wheeling experiential American poetic idiom inspired by the more cautious William Carlos Williams. Allen Ginsberg's "Howl," with its Whitmanesque catalogues of the poet's own undeniably hellish experience, became a banner around which the new American poets rallied...