Word: bug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Strasberg confides that "now that the bug has bitten Lee, there's no holding back," and her husband admits, "I am just waiting for another good offer." Some roles that would interest...
...always figure that every great team must have 11 strong men," Barnaby said yesterday. "There's always going to be one guy hurt and another is always due for the bug," the coach added...
...revised testimony was to incriminate further former Attorney General John Mitchell in the coverup. Hunt claimed for the first time that Liddy, who has resisted all pressure to tell his own story, had told Hunt that "the big man"-meaning Mitchell-"said O.K., and the word is go" to bug Democratic national headquarters. Hunt also conceded that he had received secret payments after his arrest, not merely to meet legal fees but so "that I would not reveal my knowledge of the Watergate affair." Also contradicting his previous testimony, he admitted that he had been given guarded White House assurances...
...controversy has centered mainly on three comments by Sirica: 1) that as Attorney General, Defendant John Mitchell should have ordered the Watergate conspirators out of his office when they discussed plans to bug Democratic national headquarters; 2) that the defense lawyers had done "a pretty good job" of trying to show that Conspirator John Dean had been a "liar" when he was trying to cover up the Watergate crimes; and 3) that, in order that the "TRUTH" could emerge in the trial, he was not going to adhere to "strict rules of evidence...
...angry wrangles between the defense counsel and prosecutors, the blunt Sirica mused at one point: "Maybe I shouldn't say what is on my mind." But he did. Staring sternly at former Attorney General John Mitchell, a defendant, Sirica said of the Nixon aides who had plotted to bug Democratic National Headquarters at meetings in Mitchell's office: "It's too bad that Mr. Mitchell didn't say: 'Throw them out of here. Get them out fast.' If he had," Sirica told Mitchell, "you wouldn't be in this courtroom today...