Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jury had convicted him of protecting a confidence racket from prosecution because members of his office had invested in the scheme. It was the first time a New York City district attorney had ever been indicted, much less convicted. Mackell's sudden fall underscored two apparently conflicting trends. Corruption in law-enforcement agencies seems more prevalent than ever, while efforts to curb venality are at an alltime high. Items...
...Supreme Court seems to have closed the door to any hope that our courts will return to a reasonable interpretation of the equal protection clause. Despite statements to the contrary--statements constructed upon a tortuous use of the English language--the Supreme Court imposed nothing less than a scheme for racial balance in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg County schools...
...some 50,000 separate nuclear explosions to help free the oil from the rock. Yet even the AEC's nuclear diehards may be having second thoughts about nuclear blasting. Last month the commission announced that it will help foot the bill for testing an alternate, nonnuclear gas recovery scheme called hydraulic fracturing. Employing high-pressure fluids rather than explosions to crack the gas-bearing sandstone, the test will take place only about a mile from the site of the multikiloton Rio Blanco fiasco...
...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 of a scheme by radicals to hijack a Brazilian airliner. The CIA kept the news to itself for fear that it would expose the agency's penetration of Brazilian Guerrilla Leader Carlos Marighella's band and thus jeopardize a plan to capture him. The plane was hijacked on schedule-and Marighella was trapped...
...TIME's Sandy Smith?inevitably led to slips in the pair's failsafe procedure. A hasty conversation with Hugh Sloan resulted in a misunderstanding and a Woodward-Bernstein story containing the erroneous assertion that Sloan had told the grand jury that Haldeman was involved in funding the political espionage scheme. It was a serious mistake, giving critics of the reporters an opportunity to challenge the credibility of their previous stories. Sloan's lawyer brusquely denied the story, and the White House denounced it as "shabby journalism." Confused and angered by their mistake, the reporters rashly exposed one of their prime...