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...prosecution hoped that Don Nixon would be able to link Mitchell with New Jersey Financier Robert Vesco (see PRESS), who made a secret, $200,000 contribution to the 1972 presidential campaign. In exchange for the gift. Mitchell and Stans are accused of trying to hinder an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission into a $224 million stock fraud allegedly committed by Vesco and associates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: The Brothers Nixon | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

...mentor's complaints that the SEC was using unfair and harassing tactics against Financier Robert Vesco. The Government has charged that on April 10, 1972, Vesco made a secret contribution of $200,000 to Nixon's 1972 campaign, and that in return Mitchell and Stans tried to hinder an SEC investigation into Vesco's alleged massive looting of Investors Overseas Services, a mutual fund empire that he controlled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: What, Never? No, Never, Never | 4/8/1974 | See Source »

Bill Casey went far to undercut the Government's main case against both. The two men are charged with taking a secret $200,000 cash contribution for Richard Nixon's 1972 presidential campaign from Financier Robert Vesco and, in return, trying to hinder an SEC investigation into his dealings with some overseas mutual funds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Casey at the Bat | 4/1/1974 | See Source »

...security patrol is a student-run body under the control of Harvard police Lt. George Hill. Meyer said that all matters of personal safety are referred to the police, although the presence of any uniformed person will hinder would-be offenders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Uniformed Students Aid Campus Police In Security Patrol | 3/12/1974 | See Source »

...General Thieu enough money and weapons to go on killing them himself--that didn't bring the old ladies it had killed back to life. A killing can't be reversed on reconsideration. That is why actions taken to stop killing, or to slow down its rate, or to hinder the killers, aren't in the same category as actions taken for many other political purposes...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Karleton Armstrong | 12/11/1973 | See Source »

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