Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...testified that John Caulfield, a White House aide who later moved to the Department of Transportation, applied "political pressure" to him during the Watergate trial to convince him to remain silent. He said that the pressure included warnings that the fate of the Presidency might hinge on his decision...
...Executive impoundment of funds voted by Congress to further lengths than any previous President. And until he had to reverse himself a few weeks ago, he was asserting fantastic claims of "Executive privilege" to give his men immunity from testifying before Congress about anything he chose to have them silent about...
...turbaned monk squatted in a waterless pool in New Delhi, held a match to his gasoline-soaked saffron robes and burned himself to death. The day before, a silent protest march by his fellow believers had turned into a riot. Demonstrators shouted "Death to the police!" and 238 of them were arrested in a flurry of tear gas and lath-is (long sticks...
Those two developments added a new, sinister, almost police-state dimension to the affair. Meanwhile, the President, who is reported to be "furious" about the whole miserable matter, remained silent...
...breaks in the Watergate case may come from E. Howard Hunt, one of the currently silent conspirators, a lawyer for James W. McCord has predicted...