Word: suppress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trial of seven other Nixon aides (see cover story next page). It was not known just how damaging to the President's cause the withheld tapes might be. But Nixon, tempted to turn them over to avoid a confrontation with the courts, made the final decision to suppress them after spending two entire mornings listening to them...
...Where the prosecutor's suppression is deliberate, by which we include not merely a considered decision to suppress, taken for the very purpose of obstructing but also a failure to disclose evidence whose high value to the defendants could not have escaped the prosecutor's attention...
DERSHOWITZ: When the prosecutor's suppression is deliberate and includes not merely a considered decision to suppress taken for the very purpose of obstructing...
DERSHOWITZ: I did not intend to accuse the government of making a decision to suppress for the purpose of obstructing...
...done time for killing his cheating wife and has taken this job only because it is the closest thing to police work the parole board will allow. Portrayed by Burt Lancaster -who is turning into an attractive, hard-working actor as superstardom fades-he is a functionary trying to suppress his old hunter's instincts in order to keep his job security intact...