Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Good morning to Andrew Jackson on bronze horse. Looks more chipper. White House whiter than white in first rays. Godfrey Sperling, Christian Science Monitor's journalistic breakfast impresario, leading 38 colleagues up to front door just like wanted guests. No Marine Band in the foyer, but can almost hear a Sousa march as we proceed into State Dining Room. Elegant E-shaped table with cut fall flowers. Feel like Congressmen with votes in pockets. Orange juice at door for quick fix. Eggs (poached and scrambled), sausage, bacon, buns. Better cuisine than reported...
...committee still wanted to hear from Trafficante. Next day, he showed up, nattily attired in a gray pinstripe suit, but refused at first to testify. Finally, handed a court order granting him immunity from prosecution for anything he might say, and faced with contempt if he did not talk, Trafficante became one of the few top-level mobsters ever to answer a congressional committee's questions...
...Chilean Supreme Court, will have the opportunity to resolve many unanswered questions when he reviews the extradition requests. Under the terms of the extradition treaty between Chile and the United States, Borquez has four alternatives: he could find the evidence insufficient to warrant extradition and refuse to hear the case; he could label the assasination a political crime, which would also bar a trial under the treaty; he could order a trial in Chile, either open or closed; or he could decide to extradite the accused...
Upon entering the Nautilus room of the Indoor Track and Field facility you will behold what resembles an art deco torture chamber from which you can hear a cacaphony of screams, groaning chains, and disco music...
...Bank settlements, and on Israeli military withdrawal from the West Bank--in a way that gives reason to wonder whether it will ever be more than words. It is therefore legitimate for the Arab states to be keeping their distance from the Camp David agreements, at least until they hear spelled out in more detail what the specifics of the West Bank negotiations and the other "modalities" will be. This also makes it imperative that all the parties already involved--the U.S., Egypt, and Israel--act in good faith in the coming weeks to give substance, not only...