Word: harassments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Professor John Ely points out that it will be difficult for the defense attorneys "to investigate leaks without being given access to the entirety of the Government's case, which is wrong." The broad powers to fish for any information they want could also be used to harass the prosecution. Says Columbia Law Professor Abraham Sofaer: "No one's ingenuity could possibly anticipate all the ways the defense lawyers could misuse this power." In addition, the threat of being subpoenaed could intimidate some newsmen and keep them from pursuing stories unfavorable to Agnew. Because he is, after...
...public display of dirty linen, particularly Government linen, sometimes has salutary effects. Intrigued by John Dean's charges that the White House has used the Internal Revenue Service to harass anti-Administration organizations, TIME began checking on the activities of a secret IRS Special Services Group. It disclosed that the special group, set up in 1969 to examine the taxes paid by "extremists," had amassed files on some 3,000 organizations and 8,000 individuals, including prison rioters, draft-card burners and rock-concert fans. Three days after the disclosure, the special group was disbanded. "The IRS will continue...
When John Dean was testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee, he mentioned that the White House had used the IRS to try to harass radical organizations. Dean knew what he was talking about: IRS snooping activities have mushroomed under the Nixon Administration...
Representatives of the farm workers said that the Teamsters and growers had hired thugs to beat and harass picketing farm workers. Joseph Sprague, a representative of the Massachusetts Council of Churches, who has recently returned from a tour of the strike area, said that police beatings are a constant hazard facing the striking workers...
There, remnants of Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang army, swelled by local recruits, have plied the opium trade ever since they gave up trying to harass the Chinese Communists 25 years ago. Last year, Bangkok and the U.S. paid the Kuomintang's two most powerful leaders, General Li Wen-huan and General Tuan Shi-wen, nearly $2,000,000 to get out of the opium traffic. Thai authorities believe that they have not yet ceased their trading. They will be the next targets of the crackdown...