Word: coverups
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...Supreme Court last week. There would be no review, said the court, of the convictions of John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman-or of former Attorney General John Mitchell. All three had been convicted on Jan. 1, 1975 of a total of 14 felonies for their roles in the Watergate coverup, including obstruction of justice, conspiracy and perjury. They were sentenced to prison terms of from 30 months to eight years, with no possibility of parole for 2½ years...
...brutally gunned down on a Paris street. Since then, despite a government assertion that the case has been solved, what began as a shocker killing has grown steadily more sensational, with hints of unsavory business dealings, a secret sex life, police corruption and even a high-level political coverup. As the French press dug into the scandal with rare gusto, the case brought public trust in Giscard's government...
...possibility that Ford took a hand in aiding Nixon's effort to block an early investigation of Watergate by the House Banking Committee has not been foreclosed. It has not yet been established whether Ford was a witting accomplice in the coverup, but he certainly had been following Nixon's orders for four years without once questioning the motives behind those orders...
...Nixon's role in the Watergate coverup: "I had expected to find all sorts of wrongdoing by his aides, conduct unbecoming and even criminal, but it had never occurred to me that the President was in the driver's seat...
...reign to the Lockheed prosecutors, while his longtime L.D.P. opponent Tanaka could only be hurt. But Miki also recognized that the Japanese public, long ago sickened by the lavish spending of Japanese politicians-and keenly impressed by the U.S.'s forthright handling of Watergate-would not tolerate a coverup...