Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Watergate was by far the biggest and most bizarre political crime in our history. It touched more fundamental institutions and purposes than any previous corruption. The lingering concern of Americans is demonstrated by many small facts. Fifty-five percent of the people still believe it was wrong for Gerald Ford to pardon Nixon. More than 50 million people have seen the movie All the President's Men since it came out six months ago, putting it in the top 30 alltime big hits. The Woodward-Bernstein book The Final Days has sold 610,000 hardback copies in five months...
...unnoticed by this country's discerning public that, before the very last hours in 1974, not one single powerful voice from the Republican inner circle called the crime by its right name, identified Nixon as the principal, condemned his character and his actions, or called for his impeachment...
...movie companies. The muscle: threatening to use a Mafia-controlled union of stagehands to close down production unless the studios paid up. Even so, the dapper, debonair Roselli remained a luminary of sorts in Hollywood. He married a starlet, got a piece of two nightclubs, and helped produce two crime films in the late 1940s, Canyon City and He Walked by Night. Says a producer who knew him at the time...
...HARRISES. The defendant began smiling as the foreman of the jury in the Los Angeles courtroom declared him innocent of six counts of assault with a deadly weapon. He continued to smile as the jury reduced two charges of armed robbery to the lesser crime of "taking a vehicle"-the term usually applied to joyriding. Then William Harris stopped smiling. Harris, 31, and his wife Emily, 29, listened impassively as they were found guilty of two counts of kidnaping and one of armed robbery for incidents connected with the shooting fracas in 1974 at Mel's Sporting Goods Store...
...first met his wife and, perched on a scaffolding at work on the restoration of a sacred painting, is her double (also played by Genevieve Bujold). He pursues her, brings her home to marry-and then she too is kidnaped in circumstances that precisely duplicate those of the first crime. There is even a message clipped to the post of the same bed, a photo of the original ransom note torn from an old newspaper...