Word: pal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dogged legwork and constant checking. Their efforts paid off on the night of Sept. 28, 1972, when a phone call from an unidentified Government lawyer steered Bernstein to a Tennessee state official, Alex Shipley, who said that he had been approached in June 1971 by Donald Segretti, an Army pal from Viet Nam days. Segretti wanted Shipley to work for the Nixon forces as part of an undercover dirty-tricks campaign against Democratic presidential contenders in 1972. The tireless tracking down of Segretti brought the reporters confirmation of his underhanded activities, his apparently unlimited travel funds...
...coincidence or not, a Hughes lieutenant by then had already made one of the celebrated $50,000 cash "contributions" that were held for Republican campaign funds by Nixon's pal Bebe Rebozo; the second $50,000 payment was delivered the following July. Rebozo claims that he held the money for three years and eventually returned the same bills to Hughes representatives. That story, as well as the Air West deal and other legal matters involving Hughes, is under investigation by the Senate Watergate committee...
Time has not lessened Agnew's bitterness toward the press or the Justice Department or the business cronies who squealed; he has privately complimented one businessman pal for not "breaking...
Critics of the deal counter that since the President recouped about 80% of his original investment by selling 80% of the land, the mansion that he kept on the remaining 20% in effect came free. Also, the current owner of the 23 acres, Nixon Pal Robert Abplanalp, has promised merely to hold the property for as long as his friend is President, thus providing Nixon with the gift of a sanctuary around his home...
...Keun Pal, Kim's executive secretary in Washington, said Tuesday that Koreans who have come to the United Nations for a December session on the korean situation have speculated that Kim might be set free by the first part of December...