Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...court could find that an inquest is not designed to deal with the extraordinarily publicized Kennedy case and that any action must be left to a grand jury-an inquiry held in secret. District Attorney Dinis, however, would prefer to avoid a grand jury investigation, since he himself would be in charge and the press would be excluded...
Others, such as Russell and McCormack, are too old to stand a brisk pace, or still cling to the simpler tastes of their humble beginnings. But younger congressional leaders, such as Carl Albert and Gerald Ford, also avoid convivial Washington, finding their pleasures in home and family. Like the patriarchs of Congress, they feel no need for the social acceptance so avidly sought by many in the Washington whirl. As one Senate wife observed: "They don't go out a lot or entertain, except for close personal friends. They don't need to. They're there...
...strategy of a phased, orderly U.S. disengagement, the President might be forced to choose between other alternatives-either a precipitous exit that would gravely unnerve Washington's other Asian allies, or a no-holds-barred military policy that would exacerbate antiwar sentiment in the U.S. He must avoid the appearance of either a bug-out or intransigence. Without some cooperation from Hanoi, however, the U.S. may find itself hard put to avoid one or the other of those unappealing alternatives...
...been "prejudiced" by something he heard on TV or read in the newspapers about the inquest. On the other hand, there already has been considerable publicity of this kind. If his lawyers do not obtain an injunction, Kennedy could invoke the Fifth Amendment at the inquest and avoid giving answers, but he is unlikely to do that because it might appear that he does not want to be completely truthful about the accident...
...isolate the prosecutor, defense lawyers win a motion to have his principal investigator, Detective Joseph Price, removed from the courtroom on the pretext that they might call him as a witness. The book also strongly implies that judges are often favorably disposed toward sustaining defense objections, perhaps partly to avoid the embarrassment of having the verdict set aside later because of an error in procedure...