Word: dashes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee's hearings with Howard Hughes and Charles "Bebe" Rebozo, which were to be held in February, have been postponed, Dash said, until the jury for the forthcoming trial of former Secretary of Commerce Maurice Stans and former Atty. Gen. John Mitchell has been selected and sequestered...
...Dash reviewed the events of the past year concerning the committee and outlined some of the major revelations made, including the discovery of the White House tape system...
...also spoke at length about the three groups involved with the Watergate investigation. "Each group--the Senate Select Committee, the special prosecutor's office and the House Judiciary Committee--serves a particular, nonoverlapping interest," Dash said...
...However, Dash described the mandate of the Watergate Committee as the broadest of the three. The committee must make recommendations not only to prevent another Watergate, but "to maintain our democratic government and society," he said...
Speaking about the effects of the committee's work, Dash added, "This investigation has helped to break the spell of abuse of power that could have destroyed our country as a free nation...