Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Liszka's testimony became suspect when he admitted talking to Justice Department officials about it both before and after visiting Mrs. Beard in Denver. Moreover it was learned that U.S. Attorneys had recently investigated him on charges of fraud in Medicare billings (he was subsequently cleared), and was still considering similar accusations against his doctor-wife Katherine...
...Bhutto still faces widespread criticism for clinging to martial law and delaying his country's return to democracy. Opponents suspect that he is using the delay for political advantage. An interim constitution, now under preparation, is believed by his rivals to provide for a presidential instead of a parliamentary system of government-with Bhutto as a supremely powerful President. He promises to lift martial law and restore democracy "well before the end of the year." But in the meantime, he told Correspondent Coggin, "martial law serves as a psychological deterrent to other forms of unrest." Bhutto is thus relying...
Unfair. In January, U.S. District Judge Carl O. Bue Jr. overturned the conviction and ordered the state to retry Johnson within 90 days or free him. "Outside influences affecting the community's climate of opinion were so inherently suspect as to create a resulting probability of unfairness," Bue ruled...
...also his responsibility to turn in those patients who are sought by law-enforcement authorities? The question is more than academic. At the FBI's request, two medical journals published under American Medical Association imprimatur have printed "wanted" notices soliciting doctors' help in catching a suspect. This odd procedure raises serious ethical questions about the physician's responsibility to his patient...
...case at issue derives from the bombing of a CIA office in Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1968. The Government charged three members of a left-wing group called the White Panthers, but the principal suspect, Lawrence ("Pun") Plamondon, learned that federal agents had overheard some of his telephone conversations. Plamondon, a onetime sandalmaker and co-founder of the Panthers, demanded to know what evidence the Government had acquired from the tap. Government lawyers refused to tell...