Word: vincents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government's first actions was to subpoena Ellsberg's bank record to determine whom, if anyone, he had paid to xerox the documents. The jury then took up other matters while the Justice Department official handling the case, Paul C. Vincent, travelled to Los Angeles to interrogate Ellsberg's in-laws and other associates before the grand jury there. These sessions turned up nothing. Then, returning to Boston, Vincent initiated subpoenas against several academics who are widely thought to have had nothing to do with the leak of the secret study; the three who have so far been called...
...undefined purposes is best illustrated by its treatment of three witnesses: Samuel Popkin, an assistant professor of Government at Harvard, and two of Ellsberg's in-laws. In each case, the witness refused to answer any questions beyond routine formalities of name and address. At that point, Vincent could have offered each witness immunity from prosecution in the case; if the witness still refused to answer, he would have been jailed. But it is likely that the government would grant immunity only if it knew precisely what information it was seeking, and if it was reasonably sure it would...
...skepticism about how well U.S. accommodations with the mainland may work out. Historian George Taylor, for example, feels that Nixon's decision to visit China in person has compromised the U.S. bargaining position: "It would be quite sufficient to send the Secretary of State." In recent years Historian Vincent Shih, a China emigré, has been leading a massive research project on the 19th century Taiping Rebellion, a 20-year peasant uprising against domestic corruption that the Communists often cite as a forerunner of their mass movement...
...been virtually unknown. Now at least a score of cases in teen-agers and women up to age 22 have been found in the U.S. The first seven, all detected since 1966, were reported a year ago by Drs. Arthur Herbst and Robert Scully of Boston's Vincent Memorial Hospital, the women's division of Massachusetts General. Another Boston doctor discovered an eighth case. The doctors then could not even hazard a guess to explain this sudden cluster of rarities. Moreover, all but one of the cancers were of a cell type different from that found in older...
Inside the hospital, caporegimes and "button men," or soldiers, the lowest-ranking Mafia family members, prowled the corridors near Colombo's room. No one was allowed near the room without the O.K. of Vincent ("Vinnie...