Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...collating data into hypotheses. Among the correspondents doing this detective work were New York Bureau Chief Laurence Barrett and John Tompkins, who are no strangers to the machinations of the Mob. Barrett edited TIME's first Mafia cover in 1969; Tompkins is a co-author of The Crime Confederation, a book on organized crime in America. "Gathering Mafia intelligence," says Tompkins, "is something like covering mainland China from Hong Kong; you get a hazy picture constructed from bits and pieces of information that may or may not be true...
...primary sources are court records and the people on the right side of the law." Even interviews with the good guys can be delicate. Barrett recalls an organized-crime investigator who suggested dinner at a well-known gangster hangout, explaining, "That's the kind of place where people make a very serious effort not to hear what's being said at the next table. It's safer to be deaf...
...average American citizen than it used to be. The Mafiosi always said they were no more corrupt than anyone else, and today more and more people might agree." Barrett notes some disturbing reasons for the Mafia's increasing success: "The public is a willing victim of organized crime-buying black-market cigarettes and participating in illegal gambling. It's also difficult for people to think of some racketeer-who lives in a nice house, has a nice car and sends his kid to Harvard-as the enemy...
False Premise. Amid all the misstatements and warped points of view, even on such irrelevant matters as his role in Eisenhower's dumping of Aide Sherman Adams (see box), Nixon clung to the false legal premise that a crime is not really a crime if the motive is pure. He insisted he had committed no crime or impeachable act. Yet unconsciously, he actually admitted the latter. "As the one with the chief responsibility for seeing that the laws of the United States are enforced, I did not meet that responsibility," he conceded. That very failure...
...done before, Nixon is clinging to the frail legal distinction that he was not intent on covering up any criminal acts by his men, which would be a crime in itself, but merely working to avoid what he contends would have been unjustified political criticism of the White House and his re-election committee. Understandably, Frost does not buy that...