Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...coaching witnesses on how to testify falsely and paying large sums to others to keep quiet, the Carter White House vowed to cooperate fully with the Senate investigation. Presidential Press Secretary Jody Powell announced that he and his aides do not expect to assert claims of Executive privilege to avoid answering questions, that all relevant documents will be readily supplied, that even the President will make himself available for questioning "consistent with the responsibilities and time constraints of his office." Powell explained that Carter might invite the Senators to the Oval Office rather than meet them on their own turf...
...March 6, 1979, Billy voluntarily entered an alcoholic rehabilitation center in Long Beach, Calif., emerging seven weeks later as an avowed teetotaler. (Asked last week if he had merely undergone treatment to avoid the investigation, Billy firmly denied it, adding with a smile: "Baby, I was about as big a drunk as you want to find...
...deal with the issue of custody." Chicago Juvenile Court Judge Joseph Mooney scheduled a hearing this week to determine whether Walter will be placed in the custody of one of his two U.S. aunts or be returned to his father. Although U.S. custody law has traditionally sought to avoid splitting up families under almost any circumstances, Walter's attorney will argue that his future would be seriously jeopardized by being forced to return to the Soviet Union. In Chicago, most observers regret the confrontation between parent and child, family and state. As Kathy Bereza, a member of Chicago...
Several cities are taking their own census and concentrating especially on minority neighborhoods. Illegal aliens can be especially difficult to count; they often try to avoid the census takers, fearing that the data provided eventually could be used by the Immigration and Naturalization Service to deport them. (In fact, census information remains confidential and is not made available to other agencies...
...Hughes loan made for bad press during Richard Nixon's 1960 presidential campaign, and the candidate made repeated efforts to curb brother Don's financial gamesmanship. For his part, Don tried to avoid publicity. "They call me 'Big Don,'" he once said. "I'm larger than Richard. I'm not a public figure--I'm just a fellow trying to make a living. I don't want to be in the limelight...