Word: rapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Widening Whirlpool. Next, it became clear through testimony from Lieut. General Vernon Walters, deputy director of the CIA, that White House advisers had tried to persuade the CIA to take the rap for Watergate or at least provide an excuse that would keep the FBI from thoroughly investigating one of its aspects. The circles of involvement spread from agency to agency, official to official. The Securities and Exchange Commission was afflicted last week when G. Bradford Cook, 36, its chair man for just 2½ months, resigned be cause of the "web of circumstance" that involved him in the Vesco...
...Rap. "Ruckelshaus may be a fine, independent fellow," said a high FBI man, "but he's only holding the job until the President picks a permanent director. After our bitter experience with Gray, any appointee from outside the bureau will have trouble winning the acceptance of the agents...
...decisions are being made now in the field offices. If you phone Washington with a problem, more often than not headquarters will say: 'Don't bother us with your problems-we've got our own.' " The agents feel that the entire FBI took a "bum rap" because of blunders by Gray and the Department of Justice in the Watergate investigation. Almost to a man, agents argue that Nixon is trying to gain control of the agency for his own purposes and to "politicize" it. Echoing a common sentiment, one high-ranking agent says: "Nobody wants...
What is the main cause for the sharp rise in meat and other food prices, and who benefits most from it? Consumers often complain that big business is the culprit, but that, in fact, is a bad rap. Supermarkets operate on profit margins as thin as wrapping paper; .9% on sales is the current average margin. The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. lost $55 million last year largely because of its "WHO" discounting drive. The so-called middlemen are also largely blameless, though President Nixon last year fingered them as the main perpetrators of the food price jump. The meat...
...Nearly two years after he went underground, Black Radical H. Rap Brown surfaced in a 1971 Manhattan gunfight with police. Shot and arrested, he and three others were charged with the robbery of patrons of a West Side bar and the attempted murder of three policemen. Despite the five-lawyer defense team, which included William Kunstler, Brown won a limited right to act as his own co-counsel. In a rambling opening statement he told the jury, "Truth is the eye of the storm and I myself no more than a raindrop looking for a fertile place to fall...