Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rough Watergate week for President Nixon. A grand jury report and a satchel of evidence on his role in the cover-up conspiracy were turned over to the House Judiciary Committee's impeachment investigators. Then, after a short delay, Nixon backed down and submitted to a subpoena for more evidence from Leon Jaworski, the persistent special prosecutor, rather than face a new, and probably losing, court battle. Almost as surely, he will soon be forced to stop resisting similar requests from the impeachment committee for more tapes and documents...
There also is evidence that while Presidential Lawyer James St. Clair's intricate legal tactics of delay and noncooperation may be admirable for a normal defendant in a courtroom, they are devastating to the President of the U.S. The longer that Nixon is kept from some kind of legal reckoning or due process of law, the more impossible it is for people to grant him that most ancient and widely hailed of all juridical rights-the presumption of innocence until proved guilty. One thing that emerges from studying those polls is that most Americans are concluding that Nixon...
...result of the courtroom delay, Wayne County Jail, built to house 1,100 prisoners, was packed with 1,500. One recorder's courtroom held an infamous bullpen into which each morning 30 to 40 wretched drunks were herded, prodded before the judge and out again to jail or the streets. The black community, which was soon to top 50% of Detroit's population, supplied most of the defendants, and black leaders often complained that Recorder's Court justice was far from colorblind...
Robert Burbank, project supervisor in the planning office, said it is difficult to say whether the strike will significantly delay construction of the library, but "work on the project will certainly be minimized...
...construction of the Nathan M. Pusey Memorial Library will not face a serious delay because of the on-going strike of heavy equipment operators in construction projects throughout Massachusetts, a Buildings and Grounds official of the library project said yesterday...