Word: payments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thus he had a motive to join the coverup. But did he approve the eavesdropping at Democratic National Committee headquarters during the third meeting? Did he suggest that some of the files on the bungled operation be burned? Did he lie to the grand jury? Mitchell admitted approving one payment to the original Watergate burglary defendants, but did he know that its purpose was to silence them? The Government's evidence for affirmative answers to all those questions was strong. But was Mitchell's intent always to protect the President (if the President had asked him, Hundley suggested...
...lines were drawn even more sharply in the dispute over busing. The all-white school committee refused to comply with a federal court order to approve a plan to extend integration to all of the schools next year. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare then suspended payment of a $1.9 million grant, which is badly needed to help ease the pains of desegregation...
...associates of Richard Nixon conspired to cover up the facts of the Watergate bugging and burglary. His voice rising and falling and his arms chopping the air for emphasis, Neal described an illegal cabal "on a massive scale by the highest officials of the land," involving perjury and the payment of nearly $500,000 to buy the silence of the Watergate burglars. He concluded: "One red cent paid to keep somebody from talking, whether it went for attorneys' fees or for a haircut -that's obstruction of justice...
...Cards. The anti-Israel measures, however, have caused a substantial backlash. Switzerland has cut its UNESCO contribution by 10%, and France threatens to follow suit; the U.S. is about to suspend its $19.5 million contribution to UNESCO's $77.9 million 1975 budget. Israel has announced it is suspending payment of its dues. Many Americans are refusing to buy UNICEF Christmas cards this year, even though the U.N.'s Children's Fund has nothing to do with UNESCO...
Money has changed their life-styles only mildly. Bernstein bought a cooperative apartment in a decayed Northwest Washington neighborhood, lent a friend money for a down payment on a house, and bought a closetful of expensive clothes ("which he wears badly," sighs one acquaintance). Bernstein still does not own a car, and he crashed in a rented auto two months ago. He broke two ribs, contracted a mild case of pleurisy and put on a quick 15 Ibs. because of enforced inaction while recuperating. Friends describe him as inhibited by his Watergate-related publicity and irritated at no longer being...