Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When trouble does arise-as it does on this Wednesday-his aides do not hesitate to call on him. The energy policy is clearly at a crisis point. Not only are Blumenthal and Schultze deeply concerned about the effect of the proposed policies on the economy; others, including Schlesinger, are worried about potential political trouble...
...debate is often intense. After three hours, a participant comes out, grim-faced, to make a phone call. "Hell," he mutters to himself, "if Schlesinger does what he wants to do, I'll never be able to go to Texas again in my life." Frank Moore emerges, calls his secretary and asks her to send up "one of those little blue pills in my desk." A few moments later Watson is out to ask for aspirin...
...designated hours on specified days, Bomp would call a San Francisco number to chat with a sidekick named Jimmy Fratianno; at other times he would dial a Las Vegas booth for messages from Tony Spilotro, a Chicago gang heavyweight. He also received calls at the booth. A Mafia member for 40 years, Bomp was a consequential figure in the Mob hierarchy. He was also an informant for the FBI, the highest-placed Mafioso in that role...
...members of the New York office's Squad 47, which was assigned to investigate radical groups, and is alleged to have regularly pilfered letters from relatives and friends of suspected terrorist fugitives. The indictment charges that in carrying out "the mail run," as the agents came to call it, they used illegally obtained mailbox keys and opened the letters at FBI headquarters in Manhattan with a "steamer"-a device that allows resealing without evidence of tampering. Agents also tapped phones of numerous eavesdropping targets without obtaining required court permission. Despite those efforts, they failed to turn up Bernardine Dohrn...
...centers concerned with the welfare of children, who thus did not require formal legal safeguards. But practice fell short of the ideal. In 1967 the U.S. Supreme Court reviewed juvenile justice procedures through In re Gault, a case involving an Arizona boy abruptly jailed after making an obscene telephone call. The court decided that Gault and other young defendants should have many due-process rights available previously only to adults. Among them were the rights to consult an attorney and to cross-examine witnesses...