Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Merrill directed investigations of mail fraud, organized crime, labor racketeering and tax evasion before returning to private practice in 1966. A Democrat, he lost a race for Congress that year and, two years later, chaired Michigan Citizens for Robert Kennedy...
Fearful Victims. The exposé was proposed by Investigative Reporter George Bliss, 55, whose muckraking team won a Pulitzer Prize last year for a series on voting fraud. Like many other Chicago newsmen, he had been hearing of police brutality for years. Last spring, Bliss became convinced that many accusations coming from blacks were true. He also suspected that police violence was not limited to the ghetto. Tribune City Editor Bill Jones agreed that the subject deserved full investigation and assigned Bliss three young reporters: Pamela Zekman, 29, a former social worker with four years experience on the Trib; William...
...partner of the Houston law firm that in size and influence is second only to John Connally's. A lifelong Texas Democrat-although he supported Nixon in 1972-Jaworski reigns in Houston as the apotheosis of Establishment power. In 1948, Jaworski helped defend Lyndon Johnson against charges of fraud in the wake of the 87-vote victory that first sent him to the Senate. In 1960, he defended his friend against suits that sought to prevent him from running simultaneously for Vice President and Senator. Johnson put Jaworski on five presidential commissions...
...opposition campaign literature had to be approved by the government. The country's main problem, the fighting in its African colonies, was a forbidden topic, and an opposition campaign meeting was quickly broken up when a candidate dared to mention "this unjust war." Calling the whole process a fraud, the opposition withdrew from the contest five days before the voting and urged its supporters to boycott the polls. However justified, that action assured the Caetano government, whose victory was never in doubt, that there would not be even the smallest voice of dissent in the puppet parliament...
...Hoax and Fraud. The Chinese, in turn, celebrated their birthday with a few good licks at the Russians. The People's Daily warned the Chinese to be on guard against surprise attacks by social imperialism, a pet designation for Russian policy. As for Brezhnev's peace offer, the Chinese dismissed it as "a hoax and a fraud." They told visiting British Journalist Neville Maxwell that they and not the Russians had taken the first steps toward trying to resolve the tense confrontation that exists along their long border with the Soviet Union...