Word: informant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have been worried about was G. Gordon Liddy, then a fairly high official of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. Ehrlichman testified that he knew by June 20 that Liddy had headed the Watergate break-in team. Yet Ehrlichman told Ben-Veniste that he did not inform the President of Liddy's role...
...taken ill. She flew home hurriedly after receiving reports of his declining health. In a weekend address to the nation, she announced that until he recovered she was temporarily assuming his duties as "Chief Magistrate of the nation." Two days later, Isabelita returned to television and radio to inform the nation that "a real apostle of peace and union has died...
...investigative reporting in areas far less obvious than the Watergate abuses. Even more important than investigation will be explanation. A shortcoming of the American press probably graver than any faults displayed during Watergate is the lack of expertise in many fields, a failure to develop the techniques necessary to inform the public on highly complicated subjects, to lay out the alternative choices and possible solutions in an increasingly baffling world. Cliché thinking and reporting are a far greater danger than bias...
...Respected and honorable Chairman Mao: How are you? We have come to Peking to inform you of the way the anti-Lin and anti-Confucius campaign is going on in our province...
...fondest hope of many a Warren Court critic has been that the Burger Court would overturn the 1966 Miranda decision. That momentous piece of "strict construction" requires police to inform suspects of their rights to silence, to a lawyer-and to free counsel if they are indigent; it also bars the use in court of any statement obtained without a reminder of those rights. But instead of reversing Miranda outright, the new majority has opted for trimming, undercutting or blunting its reach...