Word: lawless
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Argentina today is more tense, more lawless than it was when Perón was biding his time in exile in Madrid. Almost daily the country is racked by a new assassination, kidnaping, riot or strike. Since the Perón regime began with a hand-picked surrogate last May, more than 15 leading members of Perón's own Justicialist Party have been brutally murdered. Only last month José Rucci, one of Perón's closest associates and the head of the giant 3.1 million-member General Confederation of Labor, was riddled with...
...convincing way, it emerged from last week's test by fire as more credible than either Buzhardt's conspiracy theory or the President's less accusatory brief of last May 22. Instead of depicting a duped President and innocent top-level aides. Dean's damning version held that the lawless efforts to conceal the political implications of Watergate were an automatic and widespread White House response intended to protect the President's re-election prospects?and Nixon as a self-interested participant. Dean admitted his own role, but said that, rather than being what Buzhardt termed "the principal actor...
...that approval of their use had come from General Robert Cushman, then deputy head of the CIA and now Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps. For years the American left had drawn a picture of the U.S. spied on by a sort of combined super CIA-FBI dominated by lawless and hidden money. Once dismissed as paranoid fantasies, such visions now acquired a touch of nightmarish truth...
Mental Ward. The St. Louis area has been the scene of considerable illicit drug traffic, and DALE agents based there have made some valid arrests. Still, as one federal law-enforcement official acknowledged, "this isn't the first time" that agents in the vicinity had staged lawless raids. Nor has St. Louis been the only site of such excesses. On Jan. 9 in Winthrop, Mass., DALE agents went along on a morning foray led by state and local police that also turned out to be a terrifying case of mistaken identity...
Proud custodian of all the vested moral interests of the community, Mean John makes sure that Bickford receives regular doses of harassment. After some puzzling personal encounters and some unprofitable employment, Bickford decides to be the lawless kid everyone suspects he is. He concludes that the only way to save his pride and salvage his honor is to rob the fattest safe in town...