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...Harassment. Directing the campaign for the Irish government is Justice Minister Desmond O'Malley, 33, a brash political fighter whose antipathy toward the I.R.A. was sharpened by the recent bombing of his father-in-law's pub just north of the border. Under O'Malley's authority, the government has prosecuted more than 100 I.R.A. men on various charges, tightened controls on firearms and explosives, and last month raided and padlocked the Provisional Sinn Fein offices in Dublin. This week the government will present to the Irish Parliament a bill that seeks to redefine membership...
...sell to dogfood and glue factories. Rosalie, top cowboy Gay's gal, objects to this cruelty. Would she have raised a ruckus about the meaninglessness of Gay's life had he lived in a cowboy heyday and been able to profitably hunt and trap, or shoot Indians and harass settlers, or drive cattle instead? We'll never know. Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable star: Montgomery Clift steals the show as a jelly-brained rodeo rider. The mustang scenes are good action...
Innuendo. It is still not clear what Segretti's specific duties were, or just how unusual his campaign against Democratic candidates was; but the words "disruption" and "harass" were used by Segretti in talking to the Justice Department. The Nixon committee responded to the disclosures with a denial that anyone "in authority" had "authorized or approved or had any prior knowledge of the break-in at the Watergate or any other illegal activities." At the White House, Speechwriter Pat Buchanan claimed that the news stories were politically motivated. "We're not gonna play that game," he said. Presidential...
Segretti divulged to Justice Department officials only the bare outlines of his mission. He said that he was hired, among other things, to disrupt the primary campaigns of Democratic candidates. On one occasion, he said, he went to California to harass candidates with telephone calls and feed them false tipoffs. He also arranged to have embarrassing questions put to the Democrats at their public appearances. The Department of Justice learned that in 1971 Segretti asked a former Army officer friend to infiltrate the George Wallace campaign and work as an informant...
...grand jury now gathers evidence, subpoenas people it wants to harass, and jails them without due process of law." Mahoney said...