Word: coverups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Holmes and Watson are hired to find the Ripper by a group of merchants whose businesses suffer because shoppers fear to walk the Whitechapel streets. But as the sleuth reveals a vast coverup, he shows that nothing is as it seems. The shopkeepers are a group of radical anarchists, Jack is not a sex-crazed mutilator but a hired killer, and the master plotters are part of a conspiracy to expunge all those who know the identity of Queen Victoria's il legitimate grandchild...
...with the subtlety of a rifle butt. His villain, Charles Sherrill Hedges, commandant of cadets, is a pathologically ambitious martinet who tries to cover up the killing; his plan, an elaborate tangle of implausibility, is to make it look as if the academy's superintendent had ordered the coverup. That done, Hedges can take over as the supe of what cadets call "Woo Poo." But Hedges reck ons without Ry Slaight, a second-class man who stumbles upon the truth and then besieges it for nearly 500 pages, like Grant trying to take Richmond...
Clad in blue jeans and toting a brown paper bag filled with his belongings, H.R. Haldeman said farewell to jail last week. Having served 18 months in federal prison in Lompoc, Calif., for his part in the Watergate coverup, Richard Nixon's former chief of staff was paroled in time for Christmas. "This is generally considered a special time of the year to rejoice, and it sure is for me," said Haldeman. Two days later, John Mitchell, the last of the Watergate gang still behind bars, was permitted a five-day Christmas furlough...
...most directors' reputations. Hoover himself was demythologized after his death in 1972 by revelations of the racist, tyrannical and even lawless way in which he managed the bureau. Richard Nixon's appointee, ex-Navy Captain L. Patrick Gray, meekly let himself be used in the Watergate coverup. Clarence Kelley, the tough cop who had headed the Kansas City, Mo., police department, allowed himself to be hobbled by the Hoover clique of high-level bureaucrats at FBI headquarters. Last week former Federal Judge William H. Webster confronted the stiffest test of his ten months as FBI director and apparently...
Other federal investigators insist that there has been no foot-dragging and no coverup. "The investigation is just complicated," says J.A. ("Tony") Canales, the U.S. Attorney for Houston. "You're damn right it is being done in unusual secrecy. I don't want to hurt anybody who is innocent. We are conducting an investigation with the FBI into certain business entities involved in the reselling of oil. I am informed that there were some 60 or 70 such businesses created almost overnight. Not all are under investigation, of course, but the investigation is mushrooming...