Word: delbert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...devoted to arguing over whether the committee should meet in closed or open sessions. Another half-day was spent debating whether the committee should decide in advance what constituted an impeachable offense. The committee postponed the decision, chiefly to avoid a partisan showdown. But Republican Representative Delbert Latta of Ohio, a Nixon defender, maintained in retrospect: "If we'd defined an impeachable offense to begin with, we wouldn't have gone so slowly. It would have been clear that largely unproven charges weren't going to be relevant." He was referring to allegations of misconduct that were...
...Doar's patience and fairness in the inquiry so far has won respect among Republicans. Some then backed his view. Republicans Hamilton Fish Jr. and Lawrence Hogan complained about the "dilatory tactics" of St. Clair. Republican David Dennis nonetheless asked to subpoena only the first four items. Republican Delbert Latta, a Nixon loyalist, offered a motion that the subpoena be perfected by making the last two items more precise, apparently an attempt to delay a subpoena vote...
Directed by DELBERT MANN Screenplay by JACK PULMAN
...DELBERT ANDERSON Greeley, Colo...
Strong Words. Some Vietnamese charge that the real motive behind the current U.S. investigations is to protect American smugglers against their Vietnamese competitors. One newspaper cited the case of Maj. Delbert W. Fleener, occasional pilot for Ambassador Bunker, who was convicted last year of smuggling 850 pounds of opium into Viet Nam from Thailand aboard Air Force planes. The daily Chuong Viet dismissed the flap over narcotics as an attempt by Washington to give the U.S. public a new excuse for getting its men out of Viet Nam. "Could it be," asked the paper, "that the U.S. Government now realizes...