Word: obstructionism
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The Silverman report suggests that Fred Furino, a Mafia bagman whose body was found in an abandoned car on June 11 in New York City, may have been murdered because of his role in the Donovan probe. Furino flunked a lie-detector test on April 27, when he claimed that...
Almost all nations censor reports during war, and many do so in peacetime, either overtly or through surveillance and obstruction of journalistic enterprise. Israel, in fact, has claimed the right to censor stories on security grounds, whether for domestic or foreign audiences, ever since the nation was founded in 1948...
At Silverman's request, the FBI opened an inquiry into whether the killing of Furino amounted to an obstruction of justice. Furino's violent end made the earlier anonymous death threats received by Frank Silbey, chief investigator for the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, all the more...
Charles Colson, 50, special counsel to President. Considered toughest, meanest of Nixon's hardball political advisers. Pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice. Served seven months. Although cynics sneered, he claimed to have been born again; few now doubt his religious sincerity. Has led full-time Prison Fellowship program, promoting...
When they leave their homes, settlers are supposed to carry weapons day and night, and some are quite willing to use them. Two weeks ago, when Arab youths put up a makeshift roadblock along the route to the Jewish settlement of Shiloh, two carloads of settlers crashed through the obstruction...