Word: coverups
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...charging that she had improperly influenced Judge Hortense Gabel, who was handling Capasso's divorce case. The inquiry sharply criticized Myerson's decision to employ Gabel's daughter Sukhreet as her special assistant just two weeks before the judge slashed Capasso's alimony payments. The report also alleges a coverup: Myerson lied about the circumstances and timing of the hiring in a letter to Koch. Myerson denies acting illegally, but she is under investigation by U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani...
...board have accepted the memorandum's main conclusion, but they remain passionately divided over one critical point. Four of the members, along with the board's general counsel, Andres Narvasa, were said to maintain that Chief of Staff General Fabian Ver was involved in at least the coverup. For that reason, they apparently believe that Ver should be charged as an accessory in a report that should raise serious questions about his deeper participation. But Corazon Agrava, the board's chairman, reportedly refused to accept that the second most powerful man in the Philippines was implicated...
...years ago, that gray, haggard, jowly face appeared on the television screens of an avidly watching nation and announced the almost inevitable and yet unbelievable decision to resign. After two years of trying to escape the Watergate scandal-the bungled burglary at Democratic headquarters, and then the coverup, the lies, the hush money, the demands upon subordinates to "stonewall"-Nixon finally invoked the language of Theodore Roosevelt to describe himself as "the man in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs. . ." Next day, the official day of resignation...
...Everywhere I go," says John Dean, the former White House counsel who first publicly tied Nixon to the Watergate coverup, "I hear people say that maybe Nixon wasn't all that bad. The passage of time is one reason. People have softened their views considerably." Another reason is that Nixon has spent the past ten years tirelessly and skillfully campaigning for rehabilitation, for public acknowledgment of what he considers his deserved status as elder statesman. Says Dean: "Richard Nixon is running for ex-President." That he should campaign with some success hardly surprises veteran Nixon-watchers like John Sears...
...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...