Word: suspect
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Nixon knew of the 1962 attempt at political sabatoge, and there is no doubt that his 1972 re-election committee ran one of the most suspect campaigns in American political history. But to conjure up political tricks from Nixon's past is not enough to implicate the President himself. Even now, The Washington Post asserts the Nixon Administration is devising a strategy to offset the full disclosure planned by legal counsel John W. Dean...
...nation's capital was thrown into an apprehensive mood of intrigue and suspense. The suspect officials hired attorneys to defend them, held furtive conferences with federal prosecutors and shuttled in and out of a Washington grand jury room, dodging newsmen. In the White House, handsome young presidential aides, selected for their team loyalty and their vaunted proficiency in public relations, turned bitterly on each other, contacting newsmen in order to leak their suspicions about their colleagues. No one could be certain that his office neighbor might not be in the headlines next morning...
...Perry's direction I have to suspect him of parodying parody excessively. Don Alhambra as Dracula is the wrong tack--though you'll a-Gree that some tricks work successfully...
Robert Tonis, chief of Harvard police, said yesterday that no Harvard policeman could legally arrest the suspect unless the officer had actually witnessed the crime...
Tonis said that because the students decided not to file a complaint against the suspect with the Cambridge police, the University police could not detain the alleged thief. He added that if the students had filed a complaint, they could have been sued for false arrest...