Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...daily touch with Henry Petersen, head of the Justice Department's criminal division, as the President cooperated fully in the Watergate investigation. St. Clair admitted that the President sometimes got confidential information from Petersen about the progress of the Justice Department's probe and passed it along to his suspect subordinates. This was not done to protect them, St. Clair argued, but to let them know that others were talking to the grand jury and so they must tell the truth. It was this kind of action by the President, sweepingly claimed St. Clair, "that resulted in Dean and Magruder...
...director of the nutrition program at the University of Alabama in Birmingham and chairman of the A.M.A.'s Council on Foods and Nutrition, charges that hospital diets are often inadequate to maintain a patient's health-and sometimes so bad as to actually worsen it. "I suspect," writes Butterworth in Nutrition Today, "that one of the largest pockets of unrecognized malnutrition in America exists not in rural slums or urban ghettos, but in the private rooms and wards of our big city hospitals...
...concern was individual rights for individual Americans. After Brown came a number of rulings against racial discrimination in voting, public parks, housing and other areas. The court virtually wrote a new constitutional code of criminal procedure, with the high point coming in Miranda v. Arizona (1966), which accorded a suspect in custody the rights to keep silent and to have an attorney before being interrogated...
...magazine was started in 1961 by an ex-trucker named Mike Parkhurst. Parkhurst came to some national prominence during the shutdowns last winter. Whether or not the truckers' strike actually originated with Parkhurst and his staff, as some suspect, they spent a lot of time and money coordinating it, keeping information going to the striking drivers, and attempting to convince them to hold out for more complete concessions from the government...
...continue to get fined for minor traffic violations and lawyers and accountants will continue to escape fines for major violations because truckers don't become legislators and judges, but lawyers and accountants do." Overdrive has also gone after the oil companies and big business in general, leading some to suspect it of political radicalism. Yet this is hardly the case...