Word: betraying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York's Village Voice, Daniel Schorr suspected that he would never again appear as a CBS correspondent. Then came his eloquent defense of a reporter's First Amendment rights last month before the House ethics committee, which had demanded that he identify his source. "To betray a source would be to betray myself, my career and my life," he declared. "I cannot...
...released until they tell how they obtained secret grand jury testimony quoted in a 1975 story about local corruption, or until a judge becomes convinced they cannot be forced to talk. Before the four entered a county prison farm at Caruthers late last week, they vowed never to betray their sources. Said Editor Gruner: "We are defending one of our basic freedoms...
Before going to jail to serve eleven months for that caper, Roselli was bold enough to betray the Mafia in 1970. At the time, a federal grand jury was investigating charges that the Mob had illegally concealed its interest in the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas. Roselli, by then the Chicago Mob's top man in Las Vegas, talked about the scheme after being given a pledge of immunity. One of the men he discussed was Chicago's Tony Accardo...
...girl insists that the trouble is not in her but in the men she goes out with. She is loving and loyal, but men always betray her. "Lady, you're a professional victim, doing your niceness act." A hundred female heads nod in agreement...
These recommendations betray an impressive ignorance of the role of U.S. companies in South Africa. IBM is a particularly glaring case of a company whose sales contribute directly to the government's ability to implement its racist and repressive policies. The South African government uses IBM computers to coordinate a pass system that keeps politically active blacks from finding jobs. Blacks who agitate for political change lose their passes for "whites-only" areas, and are forced out of the industrialized areas of the country. IBM also supplies the computers for the South African military, much of which is geared toward...