Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...French appeal to Continental solidarity is strongest in the case of Belgium, which has a Dassault plant that would close down if an American plane is chosen. But French influence is less powerful elsewhere; Amsterdam's public prosecutor, for example, is unhappily investigating charges that Dassault has offered cash bribes of up to $600,000 to Dutch members of Parliament to favor the Dassault plane. Lately some top French aviation officials have begun to admit privately that their once high hopes of staving off a big success by American plane salesmen in Europe this year may be-well...
...applied for release earlier, Sirica had, in a sense, held them hostage until after the conspiracy trial ended. The testimony of Dean, Magruder and Kalmbach had helped convict four former officials of the Nixon Administration-John Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and Robert Mardian-in that trial. Former Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski believes, in fact, that the testimony of such lower-level members of the conspiracy, plus the celebrated March 21, 1973 "cancer on the presidency" tape, would have produced the convictions even without the subsequent tapes secured at the direction of the U.S. Supreme Court...
...Free. A third Holabird prisoner, Herbert Kalmbach, had been called to Washington by the Watergate special prosecutor's staff for more questioning. He was in the office of his Washington lawyer, Charles McNelis, when his Watergate attorney, James H. O'Connor, telephoned. "Is Herb there?" O'Connor asked. "He's free. I got it straight from the judge's chambers." Kalmbach picked up the phone and heard the news. His eyes filled with tears...
...Typically, he would only say: "I did what I thought was right. The orders will have to speak for themselves." But TIME has learned some of the factors that Sirica considered. They included his belief that the three had been sufficiently punished for their Watergate transgressions, their cooperation with prosecutors, the lack of any move by the special prosecutor's staff to oppose early release, and Kalmbach's weeping at the trial, which dramatized the personal tragedy inflicted upon those caught up in the scandal...
...when prosecutor Newman A. Flanagan was finished with his witnesses, defense attorney William P. Homans Jr. '41 lit into them with some success...