Word: squealer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...millions of dollars at stake, rival triads cannot peaceably split the spoils. At least twelve Chinese have been murdered in vendettas, which began last year with the killing of Chung Mon, a 55-year-old kingpin of the traffic. European narcs are now hoping for the type of squealer's revenge that helped smash the dope-dealing Corsican Mafia of Marseille in the early 1970s...
Blind Ambition is Dean's long-awaited accounting of the part he played in America's worst and most public political scandal. Sparsely told and crammed with intriguing dialogue, it presents a surprisingly unflattering self-portrait. Dean berates himself as "a squealer" and describes himself as too "naive and guppy-like" to object to the criminal activities in Richard Nixon's White House-at least until it was too late...
...full story to the Watergate prosecutors. "He had just trusted me with his biggest secret," Dean recalls. "Deep down, I knew Mitchell had played his best card. He was counting on my feeling for him, laying himself in my hands. Now I felt the razor edge between the squealer and the perjurer. I had never felt more squalid...
...that the groups are growing increasingly violent. FBI officials suspect that radicals have committed some of the state's recent unsolved murders. Among these is the slaying of Wilbert ("Popeye") Jackson, a black activist who the FBI believes was killed because radicals suspected-incorrectly-that he was a squealer. Last year the radicals claimed responsibility for 19 bombings in California; so far this year they have...
...this point in TIME, let me be one of the first to leak the names of John Dean (the Squealer) and Daniel Ellsberg (the Stealer) for Men of the Year. Unquestionably, these two glib national figures left an indelible mark on 1973, thanks to their deification by a tendentious press...