Word: coverup
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...poisoned, perhaps by someone tampering with a bottle of low-blood-pressure medicine called Effortil that the author says John Paul I kept at his bedside. Yallop insists that inconsistencies in the Vatican's account of the papal death and the absence of an autopsy point to a coverup...
...Watergate coverup: "I had the feeling-and I think in retrospect I'd probably do it again-that I should stand by my friends. . . I should have destroyed them [the tape recordings of meetings in his office] . . . If I had thought that they revealed criminal activities, I would have been out of my mind not to destroy them . . . There's no way you could apologize that. . . would exceed resigning the presidency . . . That said...
...James was mistaken for a grocery-store robber and was killed by two white policemen. A department inquiry cleared the officers, but Patricia Bowden, with the help of Local Attorney Lawrence O'Donnell Sr., sued for damages. After a three-year investigation that exposed a top-level police coverup, a federal court jury awarded her $250,000 plus interest...
Barre finally made a copy available to the government (Giscard still has not). At a Jan. 2 news conference, Premier Pierre Mauroy waved the document before the cameras while he accused the Giscard government of being duped and then trying to engineer a coverup. Since then, the war of words has escalated. In another TV broadside, Giscard declaimed: "Francois Mitterrand is no longer qualified to represent the country. The present government came to power through lies. It is trying to maintain itself by lies." Disdaining a reply, Mitterrand has preferred, as the pro-government daily Le Monde...
Shultz's reply was quick, angry and scornful: "No coverup, however brazen or elaborate, can ... absolve the Soviet Union of its responsibility to explain its behavior...