Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tell the Truth. Last week Dean met secretly with Sam Dash, the Ervin committee's chief counsel. Afterward, the committee voted unanimously to guarantee Dean a limited immunity against prosecution for whatever he might tell in the televised hearings. The Justice Department can-and intends to-delay that request for 30 days, but Judge John Sirica will have to approve it at the end of that period...
Despite the warmth of Brezhnev's meeting with Brandt, the armies of East and West still face each other in Central Europe. On that front, thawing the cold war is proving to be much more difficult than freezing it. Last week, after 3½ months of diplomatic delay and more than 70 top-secret meetings, talks to reduce the level of troops in that region finally began in Vienna, but under less than propitious circumstances...
...indictments say that by October, as the presidential election neared, Vesco was threatening that he would disclose the secret payment unless stiffer action was taken to delay or halt the SEC inquiry. Sears phoned Mitchell to pass on the threat. In November, presumably just before the election, Vesco sent a memorandum to Donald Nixon, the President's brother.* In the memo, Vesco again warned that he would reveal the details of the contribution unless all the SEC charges were dropped...
...career man) was kidnaped by four armed men. An hour after he was spirited away, ransom notes turned up, demanding on behalf of the "Revolutionary Armed Forces of the People" that 30 political prisoners be released from prisons across the country and flown to Cuba. Warned the terrorists: "Any delay in fulfilling these demands will result in the execution of the bourgeois who is in our hands...
...Bulletin should be commended on their decision to delay publication of Kilson's article in the name of accuracy and fairness. Hopefully, other Harvard publications will follow suit. Derrick Bell Professor...