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...anyone in the Justice Department. But that only made things worse-much worse. Three days later Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti had to recall publicly that he had, after all, discussed the subject briefly with the President himself on June 17. That statement touched off fresh Republican cries of a "coverup" and gave heart to the restless Democrats aiming at dumping Carter as their presidential candidate when the party convenees in Madison Square Garden...
...York-New Jersey area were angry at what they considered a premature termination of the Abscam operation. Abscam was shut down, these New York officials apparently believed, just as it was about to reach more members of Congress than the eight already involved. Fearing a high-level coverup, the advocates of this theory claim, the lower-level officials decided to make sure that Abscam's results to date were spread on the public record...
What has heightened outrage in Miami is the fact that the indicted policemen -Ira Diggs, 31, Alex Marrero, 25, Michael Watts, 30, and William Hanlon, 27 -had a history of brutality charges. So did Herbert Evans Jr., 33, who was implicated in the coverup. In all, the five men have been cited in 47 citizen complaints and 13 internal review probes in the past seven years. Not one ever received severe disciplinary measures, although Diggs and Evans were relieved of street patrol for short periods. With the trial set for March, the four officers could go to prison...
Thatcher's position was upheld by two of her predecessors as Prime Minister in what Callaghan called "a calm and rational debate." Speaking from the corner Commons seat once occupied by Winston Churchill during the '30s, Edward Heath strongly denied that there had been any "coverup" and insisted that Blunt's disclosures about other Soviet spies had provided "a great deal of valuable information." Callaghan agreed with Heath, but allowed, with hindsight, that "the advice at the time about Blunt being allowed to stay in a palace post was wrong." And Callaghan added the icy comment...
...difficult it will be for anyone, Democrat or Republican, to campaign against Ted Kennedy! It just wouldn't be sporting to mention honor, courage, truth, fidelity, economy-mindedness, coverup, character, cheating, special privileges, confusion, irrationality or even such ordinary phrases as "crossing that bridge when we come to it" or "troubled waters." The list seems endless...