Word: payments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Howard Hunt had a White House-approved office. Also accused by Gray of suggesting that Gray destroy some Hunt files from that office. Attended meetings in February and March 1972 with John Mitchell, Jeb Magruder and Gordon Liddy at which plans to bug the Watergate were discussed. Approved payments to keep the arrested wiretappers quiet, according to Magruder. Supervised payment of $175,000 to the conspirators for that purpose...
...uncommon amount of cash has floated in on nearly every swell of the Watergate mess; some of it inevitably has come to the lawyers. Conspirator E. Howard Hunt, for one, gave his lawyer $25,000 in $100 bills as partial payment of legal fees. Conspirator James McCord claims to have paid his attorney the same amount in the same way. The size of those fees, however, is thought to be minimal compared with some others. New York Attorney Henry Rothblatt, a voluble, flamboyant and highly skilled criminal specialist who represented four of the original defendants, charged them $125,000 even...
...rebuffed by a company that had previously agreed to let itself be bought. Directors of G.P. Putnam's Sons, the publishing house, asked ITT to postpone the takeover indefinitely. Since they had agreed to the buy-out in January, the block of ITT stock to be used in payment for Putnam's had declined in value from $16.5 million to $9.7 million...
...part of a 1968 settlement involving 58 children. In addition, $35 million will be paid into a charitable trust for all the children in seven yearly installments of $5,000,000. As a protection against possible erosion by inflation, there is an escalation clause that could increase each payment by 10%. To the individual child, the proposed settlement will be worth between $250,000 and $375,000. The amount of payment will be determined by the extent of physical disability, which will be assessed by a panel of medical experts appointed by the Royal College of Surgeons...
Even more fundamentally, the trading houses are catching the first glimmerings of a new business era to which they will have to adjust. In March, Japan posted a record balance of payments deficit-yes, deficit-of $1.1 billion, caused by a hefty rise in Japanese imports and a huge outflow of long-term investment capital. Though the payment figures have been bouncing around too erratically from month to month to establish any definitive trend yet, they may presage-to the vast relief of the U.S.-the dwindling if not the end of the gigantic Japanese surpluses in commercial dealings with...