Word: indict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue were not worrisome enough for West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, he faced the possibility last week of losing one of his key ministers as the result of a long-simmering financial scandal. After two years of investigation, Bonn Public Prosecutor Franzbruno Eulencamp announced that his office planned to indict Economics Minister Count Otto Lambsdorff on charges of bribery and corruption. Also accused were former Economics Minister Hans Friderichs, now chairman of West Germany's second-ranking Dresdner Bank, and three other officials. Eulencamp asked the Bundestag to lift the immunity Lambsdorff enjoys as a member of parliament. Despite...
...having the press be free. Said Jefferson: "It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press . . . I shall protect them in the right of lying and calumniating." Moreover, the press, however forceful, has no power to indict or impeach, no power beyond what is granted by its audience. A journalist can expose a situation, but cannot compel an indifferent public to change...
...Washington in 1981 for his confirmation hearings, he has been pressed to explain alleged links with the Mafia. Donovan has resolutely denied any dealings with organized crime. Last year a special federal prosecutor concluded a nine-month inquiry with the report that there was "insufficient credible evidence" to indict Donovan...
...another human being or cooperate with a system whose goal is mass murder. I have written Ronald Reagan to tell him what I have not done, and sent copies of my confession to the Selective Service and the Justice Department. If the United States Government had seen fit to indict and prosecute me, find me guilty and then fine or imprison me. I would have felt that justice had been served. I would have welcomed the opportunity to make my oppositions to registration and the draft as clear as possible. As events would have it, I am indeed being fined...
...Detroit, Judge Kaufman refused to take issue with the new criminal prosecution. "If the Federal Government thinks it should indict them," he said, "then that's what it should do." Lily Chin said the grand jury's action "makes me feel that there's still hope for justice in this land. I'm grateful and hopeful. But happy I'm not. My son is gone forever...