Word: ward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accusations raised in the grand jury indictments of John Mitchell and Maurice Stans-along with a notorious financial freebooter and a leading New Jersey Republican-form a sleazy story that might well give pause to even the most hardened ward heeler...
...imaginative insanity began. For example, he gets into some very heavy slander: NBC's John Chancellor (who he seems to like) is a "dope-addled fascist bastard," Muskie is "a bonehead who steals his best lines from old Nixon speeches," and Hubert Humphrey is a "treacherous, gutless old ward-heeler who should be put in a goddamn bottle and sent out with the Japanese current." He doesn't pretend to cover the campaign thoroughly: he ignores some events and deals with others in detail, looking for an essence rather than a careful report...
...Mental Ward. The St. Louis area has been the scene of considerable illicit drug traffic, and DALE agents based there have made some valid arrests. Still, as one federal law-enforcement official acknowledged, "this isn't the first time" that agents in the vicinity had staged lawless raids. Nor has St. Louis been the only site of such excesses. On Jan. 9 in Winthrop, Mass., DALE agents went along on a morning foray led by state and local police that also turned out to be a terrifying case of mistaken identity...
...suit against the Federal Government. Evelyn Giglotto says that she can no longer sleep in the bedroom where she thought her husband was going to be murdered. Virginia Askew, according to her husband, has a history of "psychological problems." She has been in a local hospital's mental ward since the raid took place...
...connection with Watergate; his attorney, David Shapiro, 44, is also his law partner in a rapidly growing new firm whose promising future could be severely compromised. In some ways, Shapiro has almost as much to lose as Colson. Thus the Colson defense tactics have been designed to ward off even the implication of involvement, using a carefully prepared battle plan including a lie-detector test to bolster Colson's claim of innocence, willing cooperation with investigators and leaks by Colson to the press...