Word: burglars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Veniste to contradict his current testimony. Repeatedly, Haldeman denied the incriminating implication of his recorded words, insisting that "there must be another explanation"-although he often failed to offer one. One tape showed that Haldeman was present, for example, when Mitchell reported that the cash demands of Burglar E. Howard Hunt "had been taken care of; Haldeman said he did not know what Mitchell had meant by that. Asked Ben-Veniste: "What did you think-Mitchell was going to take Hunt down to the Bankers Trust and co-sign a loan for him?" Repeated Haldeman: "I didn't know...
Under Neal's attack, Mitchell insisted that seizing leaders of groups planning demonstrations against the 1972 Republican National Convention and taking them to Mexico-part of a plan presented to him by convicted Burglar G. Gordon Liddy-would not have constituted the crime of kidnaping. Mitchell called it "segregating" the disrupters...
...other witnesses "to refresh Mr. Mitchell's recollection"-and to make the point that Mitchell was contradicting the testimony of at least six prosecution witnesses. Mitchell became especially entangled in trying to explain why he had advised that a final payment of $75,000 be made to Burglar...
...jacket?Pisanello's Portrait of a Lady. The retold tale of Eliduc, a 12th century Celtic romance, charmingly repeats the story of a knight torn between his love for a princess and his loyalty to his wife. A story called Poor Koko tells of a sort of casual Marxist burglar who amiably loots the guesthouse where a pedantic writer is staying, then, like a Manson of letters, coolly destroys the writer's notes and manuscript for a book about Thomas Love Peacock, a 19th century writer of burlesque romances (who is, incidentally, one of Fowles' favorite writers). The Enigma...
...wood-paneled walls of Federal Judge John J. Sirica's Washington, D.C., courtroom. Yet former CIA Agent and Intrigue Novelist E. Howard Hunt provided the first genuine surprise of the Watergate conspiracy trial. Under the brisk questioning of Assistant Special Prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste, the convicted Watergate burglar admitted that he had lied in his previous Watergate testimony no fewer than twelve times and given "evasive" answers on other occasions. Even his soon-to-be-released memoirs, Undercover, contains lies, he admitted, that were designed to protect his previous perjury...