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...elaborate indictment listed eighteen "overt acts" of conspiracy, such as "On February 11, Defendant Marshall spoke at a meeting at the University of Washington." In his opening statement to the jury, U.S. Attorney Stan Pitkin of Seattle added some detail to the indictment's description of the overt acts...
Even taken together, these overt acts do not substantiate a charge of conspiracy. While it is possible that the government was just not able to get the evidence it needed to expose the conspiracy, it is also quite possible that there were no grounds for indictment in the first place...
...visitor to the University, but even accorded VIP treatment. Knowing as I do, partly from reports of friends whose knowledge is first-hand, but also from newspaper accounts, of the criminal acts of Sioris' ministry (in annulling elections to university chairs, in summary removals of incumbents, in overt interference with the right of teachers to teach what they think is the truth-all on fascist political grounds) I naturally could not imagine that Harvard would welcome him. To do so would be to welcome into the University the man who, by virtue of his office, counts as the chief enemy...
Fearful that illegal takeovers may spread, Chile's middle and upper classes are becoming increasingly self-conscious about overt displays of wealth. Los Leones, one of Santiago's most elegant country clubs, has opened its manicured golf course and pine-shaded swimming pool to working-class children at least once a week ort "días populares...
...conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger, for example, the Government need not prove that the antiwar priest and his five co-defendants ever approached the presidential adviser or even laid eyes on him. It must simply show that there was an agreement and that at least one conspirator took an overt step toward carrying out the alleged plot...