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Mitchell's most stringent denial came on Sears' charge that the former Attorney General had agreed to help quash SEC subpoenas issued to Vesco and four key Vesco aides. Sears testified he told Mitchell that Vesco was threatening to expose the gift, and that Mitchell said he would go to White House Counsel John Dean to try to get the subpoenas delayed until after the election. Dean testified that he did indeed respond to Mitchell's request by asking Casey to hold up the subpoenas, but that Casey refused. For his part, Mitchell maintained...
...down for the first time, and some of them will provide fuel for critics of the agency and perhaps trigger unpleasant cables to Henry Kissinger from foreign capitals. A likely instance is the book's recounting of how in the mid-1960s the CIA helped Peru to quash an indigenous guerrilla movement. At the request of the government, headed by Fernando Belaunde Terry, the agency erected a miniature Fort Bragg in the heart of the Peruvian jungle and recruited a crack counterinsurgency team, which made short work of the guerrillas. Another passage reports that in 1969 the agency learned...
...brutal coup in Chile in September and since, along with Seth Kupferberg have detailed the brutality of the regime. By now it should be clear to everyone--no matter what were their opinions of the policies of Dr. Allende--that the present regime seeks to enslave a people and quash all humanitarian impulses with unspeakable cruelty...
...Administration has not given up the anti-inflation game entirely. John Dunlop, director of the C.O.L.C., is known as a muscular arm-twister who has been able to quash price increases with subtle combinations of browbeating and incentives. Dunlop, for instance, decontrolled such industries as autos, rubber and fertilizer in exchange for promises that executives would voluntarily hold down their prices and, in some cases, step up their output. Recently he said that he might urge the Administration, perhaps through the Federal Energy Office, to allocate scarce building materials to parts of the country where construction unions agree to only...
Agnew's courtroom victory came after his lawyers had moved to quash the grand jury investigation by arguing that it was not only unconstitutional-a Vice President could not be indicted-but that the Justice Department had leaked so much detrimental material about Agnew to the press that the jurors were bound to be prejudiced. In a highly unusual action, Judge Walter E. Hoffman granted Agnew's attorneys the power to gather information about the extent of the leaks by questioning under oath any persons they felt to be "appropriate and necessary"-a sweeping definition that could...