Word: toole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the Government used wiretaps or other snooping devices, or sought to seize private documents that it believed to be relevant to the national security, but that it did these things with an utter disregard for the law. Where national security is involved, the principal consideration is not the tool that is used but the assurance that it will be used on a legitimate target in legitimate fashion. As Los Angeles Police Chief Edward Davis put it last week: "The catching of a felon never justifies the catcher becoming a felon himself...
Recognizing the potential of this new tool, groups representing women in the graduate school, at the medical area, as well as groups of secretaries, librarians have banded together to form "Women Employed at Harvard." One of their primary concerns will be affirmative action...
Immunity was not a standard tool, however, and it was rarely applied to major criminals in major cases. This was partly because immunity was not legally available in the majority of criminal investigations. In addition, most immunity statutes barred prosecution for any "transaction, matter or thing" referred Jo in the testimony; so there was always .the possibility that a witness would take an "immunity bath" by mentioning every crime he had ever committed...
...more dubious but productive techniques, such as burglarizing the homes and monitoring the mail of suspected spies and criminals. Stymied by Hoover and realizing that not even the 8,700 agents of the FBI could cope with riots, the Johnson Administration turned to the U.S. Army as a tool of massive retaliation, giving it new charters to collect intelligence on civilians in the process...
Conrad undocked and maneuvered Apollo to Skylab. Wearing a bulky space suit, Weitz leaned out of Apollo's hatch (while Kerwin held onto his knee to keep him from drifting out into space) and attempted to pull the jammed panel loose with a long-handled tool resembling a boat hook. The panel would not budge. After an hour of pushing, shoving and tugging-interspersed with streams of obscenities clearly audible to millions-the task seemed hopeless. "I hate to say it," said the exasperated Weitz, "but we ain't going to do it with the tools...