Word: obstructiveness
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...Joseph Barbara in the village of Apalachin, New York; the conclave, raided by the State police, was widely assumed to have been a gangland convention. Almost two years later, twenty of these men were tried in a United States District Court on a charge of conspiracy to obstruct justice. In the course of the trial, the prosecution was unable even to tell what had transpired at the Apalachin meeting. But the public obviously wanted to see the defendants in jail; the jury returned a verdict of guilty and Judge Irving Kaufman imposed the maximum sentences...
...York for consultation, simultaneously releasing Dayal's angry official report, which described Mobutu's regime as a "usurpation of political powers" and blamed much of the Congo's current troubles on Belgium, whose agents, said the report, were flocking back in to "exclude or obstruct" the U.N. itself. Promptly, the Belgians screamed "foul," hinted that Foreign Minister Pierre Wigny himself would fly over from Brussels to reply during this week's General Assembly debate. Then Hammarskjold got word that even the U.S. was upset at the report. "We have every confidence in the good faith...
...Sones admits that his technique involves some risk. Although the catheter is less than half as thick as an average coronary artery, it can still obstruct the flow of blood into the heart. Throughout the operation, Drs. Sones and Shirey monitor the pressure of the blood against the catheter's tip. Explains Sones: "If the pressure starts to flatten out, we know the tip has obstructed the artery or one of its branches. Then we have from ten to 30 seconds to get it out before the heart is starved for blood and the patient has a heart attack...
...Bolsters the authority of federal courts by making it a federal crime to obstruct any court orders "by threats or force." Originally, the Administration called for restricting this to court orders involving only school desegregation, but Southerners won their fight to expand the statute into all fields, e.g., labor disputes...
...Dirksen resolutely reversed his own month-old vote in the drive for unity, voted to make it a federal crime to obstruct any order by a U.S. court-not just an order concerning school integration. Dirksen's switchover to the broader proposal helped line up a 68-to-20 majority for this amendment...