Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year of action, when Congress last Friday finally passed a bill creating an independent legal services corporation, an amendment stipulated that none of its budget was to fund back-up centers, thus perhaps eliminating any changes broader than helping a poor person to receive a welfare payment or to obtain a divorce...
...best from the left and the right and arrive at a compromising middle does not indicate that people are tolerant or indifferent. On the contrary, it demonstrates that we in the middle are capable of exercising good judgment and prudence. All three groups are necessary if we are to obtain a just and free society...
...stand for less than two minutes as he answered three questions. No, he had not authorized David Young to request a psychological profile of Ellsberg from the CIA. No, he had not known that one was being assembled. No, he had not been aware of a plan to obtain information from Ellsberg's psychiatrist. That succinct testimony by the Secretary of State ran counter to Young's assertion that both Kissinger and Ehrlichman had asked for the profile...
Bauman is presiding over a hearing on a motion by Edmund A. Rosner that Rosner be granted a new trial on charges that he bribed a policeman to obtain secret grand jury testimony. Rosner was convicted on those charges in December 1972, primarily on the basis of testimony of Det.Robert S. Leuci. Leuci has since admitted that he perjured himself during the first Rosner trial by failing to answer truthfully about his own history of criminal involvement. Dershowitz, who is serving as Rosner's counsel, charged that the U.S. attorney had documents which proved Leuci's perjury at the time...
...while he was with the U.S. Attorney's office in New York City, Ben-Veniste was recruited by Archibald Cox for the Watergate task force. He became head of it when Leon Jaworski was named special prosecutor and, with the task force's six other lawyers, helped obtain subpoenaed tapes in a major victory over the White House legal staff. "He bores in on you like a God-damned termite," said one lawyer who has watched Ben-Veniste in action. A Columbia law graduate, Ben-Veniste will be a major Government prosecutor in the cover-up trials...