Word: whether
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Said Ecevit: "There has been ample freedom in Turkey for 50 years. Those who oppose the regime here hanker for an authoritarian regime, whether of the right or the left. Because our people are attached to democracy [the extremists] cannot get support...
...Whether it was a conspiracy to frighten or a conspiracy to kill, it was badly botched," he said. The judge also made the point that the testimony of the three principal prosecution witnesses was "tainted" by the huge sums of money that each had received for telling his story to the British press. Bessell admitted on the stand that his contract for serialization of portions of a book he is writing called for twice as much ($100,000) if Thorpe were convicted. By the judge's reckoning, Scott was paid $31,000 by newspaper and television companies, and Newton...
...cannot show that he actually delivered. "Without doubt," acknowledged Chief Justice Warren Burger, "exclusion of evidence will make prosecutions more difficult." The Justice Department argued that it would make some bribery prosecutions against Congressmen "nearly impossible." At week's end, the Government was still deciding whether or not to drop its case against Helstoski...
...blow to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. After the May 25 Chicago crash of a DC-10 that took 275 lives, the FAA had not only grounded all of the 138 planes owned by U.S. airlines, but barred U.S. airspace to foreign-owned DC-10s. Asked in House hearings whether the Europeans' decision meant that the FAA had erred, Agency Chief Langhorne Bond replied, "One or the other...
...four performers, Evalyn Baron, John Driver, Jeffrey Haddow and Roger Neil, play the piano in addition to their other chores. They are fun to be with. At one point, the quartet is upstaged by a duck named Hermione who is put on the piano. A delirious discussion ensues about whether or not the duck will fertilize it. Be that as it may, the evening is well fertilized with laughter...