Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Black Panthers were being exterminated. I could get no one, save [Special Consultant to the President] Len Garment, to see how dreadfully potent a charge this was against you. The charge was being made that your Administration was carrying out a systematic plan of political murder designed to wipe out a political party. The charge was groundless, which I could soon enough establish to my own satisfaction. But what was the response of the Justice Department? In effect, 'No comment.' And at the lower levels, a series of hysterical (two meanings intended) statements that this band...
...Yeah, like so. . . . It means we go in and wipe...
...legal scholars believe that jurors often regard conspiracy defendants as guilty until proved innocent. There is also rising concern about the Government's increasing use of conspiracy laws against leaders of dissident political groups. Indeed, some scholars agree with Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, who argues: "I would wipe the law clean of conspiracy; on balance, it does more harm than good...
...pursue his policies unchecked. Since May, the war has been steadily expanded: the destruction of Cambodia's neutralist regime and the installation of an American puppet: the invasion of Cambodia by U. S. and South Vietnamese soldiers; the bombing of North Vietnam and the announcement of new policies which wipe out the 1968 bombing halt: the lightning raid on North Vietnamese territory; the expanded air war over Cambodia; and now the invasion of Laos...
...Medina conferred. According to Vasquez, Barker told Medina that "everything was going fine, going smooth, going to plan." The day before, Vasquez recalled, there had been a meeting of officers in which Colonel Henderson urged his brigade officers to "go in there aggressively, close with the enemy and wipe them out for good." Henderson has been charged with dereliction of duty. Medina has undergone the Army's equivalent of a grand jury investigation that could result in a court-martial, but no formal charges have been announced...