Word: obstructionism
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It went like that all week for the Government, just as it has since the trial began a month ago: one step forward and another backward. But while the prosecutors seemed to be making little headway in establishing the charges of conspiracy and obstruction of justice against Mitchell and Stans...
NIXON gave his account at last week's press conference. "For the first time on March 21, he [Dean] told me that payments had been made to the defendants for the purpose of keeping them quiet, not simply for their defense. If it had been simply for their defense...
Z [1969]. An enormously skillful political chiller that gave Constantine Costa-Gavras (who has since directed The Confession and State of Siege) his first taste of U.S. box office success. The script is based on the 1963 assassination of Greek pacifist Gregarios Lambrakis. This is a film about government complicity...
The indictment spares no harsh words in describing the cover-up conspiracy involving the seven indicted Nixon associates "and others known and unknown." The aim of the conspiracy, the indictment claims, was to conceal the identity of the persons responsible for the Watergate wiretapping, as well as "other illegal and...
MAURICE H. STANS, 65, former Secretary of Commerce and C.R.P. finance-committee chairman. Indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice in seeking campaign donations; now on trial.