Word: tribe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Following complaints of possible phone interference, an official at the New England Telephone Company said yesterday there was no evidence of a wiretap on the home phone of a close associate of Law School Professor Laurence H. Tribe, whose office phone was found to have been tapped early last month...
...independent investigator who last month found the tap on Tribe's phone had told the Boston Globe that he was looking into potential interference on the associate's home phone. On Monday, after Tribe's associate notified the company that his phone was being tampered with, a New England Telephone technician found extra wire loose at the junction box of the group of townhouses that included the associate's and threw it away, the associate told the Globe...
...associate, who was not identified, works closely with Tribe and had helped the liberal constitutional scholar do research for a May 22 article that Tribe wrote in The New York Times in which he argued that President Reagan may have committed impeachable offenses in his handling of the Iran-contra affair, according to the Globe report...
...early November, after Tribe's secretaries heard strange noises over his office phone line, the professor hired an outside surveillance expert who uncovered an extension wire leading from Tribe's third-floor office in Griswold Hall to a computer terminal on the second-floor. That wire, however, was not one of the phone company's, and was determined to be an unauthorized wiretap...
...Tribe's office declined to comment on the matter of his associate...