Word: patrick
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Last week's first witness was L. Patrick Gray III, the former acting director of the FBI, who appeared a pathetic figure as he described how, in 26 years of service in the U.S. Navy, he had been taught to say "Aye, aye, sir." Gray was asked about his earlier account of a telephone call to Nixon on July 6, 1972, in which he had warned that certain White House aides were trying to "mortally wound" the President by interfering with the FBI and the CIA (TIME Aug. 13). To this astonishing assertion, Nixon merely replied: "Pat, you just...
...Nixon committee's scheduling director, shredded various expense receipts given him by Liddy. Later both Fred LaRue and Herbert Kalmbach, Nixon's personal attorney, destroyed records on the amounts of money they had secretly distributed to the Watergate defendants or their attorneys. Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray burned documents taken from Hunt's safe. Nixon Finance Committee Chairman Maurice Stans, Treasurer Hugh Sloan Jr. and Kalmbach destroyed reports of campaign contributions received before a financing-disclosure law went into effect on April 7, 1972, although this destruction may not have had any direct connection with Watergate...
...Patrick is a compact, modishly dressed black man of 43 with an abiding hatred for the new religious movements now proliferating across the U.S. A zealot who despises zealots, he has a list of scores of sects and cults-Christian, Oriental and syncretist. He accuses them of being part of a vast Communist conspiracy to seduce young minds through a kind of spiritual brainwashing. Patrick's remedy is as drastic as his charges: he assists families in abducting the young believers, many of them over 21, from the religious groups they have joined, and then conducts a kind...
...Patrick was charged with assault and unlawful imprisonment, each a misdemeanor that carries a maximum sentence of one year in jail. The charges grew out of an episode on Manhattan's Upper West Side last winter, when Dan Voll, a former Yale undergraduate just 13 days short of his 21st birthday, was suddenly seized and muscled into a waiting car (TIME, March 12). The abductors were Voll's father Eugene, his mother Marie, and Ted Patrick. Summoned by Voll's frantic cries for help, police stopped the car before it had gone two blocks and freed...
Instead of challenging the facts, the defense attempted to justify them. Patrick was only acting as an agent of Voll's parents, his attorney said, and the parents themselves were acting in the young man's best interests. Dan Voll's religious beliefs, his parents had been told, had turned him into a "zombie," and they had only wanted to rescue...