Word: fraud
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...grand jury. Last week Mitchell also went on trial in a New York federal court on six counts of perjury. He and former Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans are accused of attempting to intervene with the Securities and Exchange Commission to help Fugitive Financier Robert Vesco evade a massive fraud investigation in return for a secret $200,000 contribution to Nixon's 1972 campaign...
...conceal the identity of the persons responsible for the Watergate wiretapping, as well as "other illegal and improper activities." Toward that end, the seven tried to prevent officials of the CIA, FBI and Department of Justice from transacting "their official business honestly and impartially, free from corruption, fraud, improper and undue influence, dishonesty, unlawful impairment and obstruction...
Another Russian lady, Rosa Kuleshova, can "read" with her fingertips while securely blindfolded. James Randi, analyzing photographs of Kuleshova, promptly announced that her act was "a fraud." To prove his point, he invited testers to blindfold him with pizza dough, a mask and a hood. Then he proceeded to drive a car in traffic. "I won't tell you how I did it," he says. "But it was not parapsychologically. It was pure deception, just as hers was." Such revelations have not deterred the parapsychologists in the U.S.S.R. or elsewhere. They freely concede that many of their subjects do sometimes...
Herrnstein said yesterday that there is no grounds for a debate. "Professor Lewontin and I do not disagree on the question of the inheritability of I.Q., so the whole controversy is a fraud," Herrnstein said. "But he likes to call me terrible names like 'racist'," he added...
Poll Reversal. But Labor, led by former Prime Minister Harold Wilson, 57, has ample ammunition to fire back. The Tory slogan is "a fraud," Wilson railed last week. "The short answer is that for some months now no one has governed Britain." Labor's battle cry will be a "fair society," accompanied by a promise to repeal the hated Industrial Relations Act, which sharply restricts union activities, introduce across-the-board food subsidies and set up a new prices-and-income board under the direct control of Parliament. The party's strongest pitch will be on inflation. Food...