Word: subpoenaed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...charges and glib BILLYGATE headlines notwithstanding, the only comparisons turned up so far between the Billy affair and Watergate were surface trappings. A splurge of daily newspaper stories speculating on vague "intelligence" reports and plots, the convening of a special subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee with power to subpoena White House documents, even the revival of the old question, "What did the President know and when did he know it?"-these all had the ring of Watergate. So did the repeated anticipation of things they "forgot" to say. The vow of Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh, who will head...
...Connecticut country road, Capote meets a widow who shelters him in her cottage and shows him a freezer full of dead cats, old pets she could not bear to part with. Two policemen wait at a Los Angeles airport boarding gate to arrest Capote for ignoring a subpoena to testify in a murder case he had researched. The situation looks hopeless until he runs into Pearl Bailey and her gaudy entourage. She gets one groupie to switch clothing with Capote and then smuggles the frightened author aboard the plane...
...council voted last week to subpoena the county commissioners, district attorney, sheriff and the state director of corrections to discuss the plans with the council at last night's meeting. That meeting and a hearing scheduled for tomorrow have been cancelled...
Cambridge city councilors will subpoena the Middlesex County commissioners, district attorney, sheriff and the state director of corrections, requiring them to meet with the council next week...