"Deep gullet" revealed scandal Watergate

There dies the man who made resign the president Nixon

Shortly after revealing that it was “a Deep Gullet”, Mark Felt poses in his house of California with his daughter and his grandson. Photo: AP

Louise Chu
Santa Rosa, California / AP

Mark Felt, the ex-subchief of the FBI who was revealed like "Deep gullet" 30 years after leaking to journalists the scandal Watergate that laid down the president Richard Nixon, he died 95 years after age.

Felt died of congestive heart failure, reported on Friday, the 19th John D. O'Connor, the friend of the family who in 2005 wrote in the magazine Vanity Fair the article that exhibited the Felt secret. |

Being the blurry central figure of one of the most exciting moments of the American politics in the XXth century, Felt decided to support secretly his double personality when it leaked to the newspaper The Washington Post the accusing information about the president Nixon and his assistants.

Some persons, they included Nixon and his assistants, surmised that Felt was the source that it was linking to the White House with the irruption in the head office of the National Committee of the Democratic Divided opponent of that time of June 17, 1972. Pero Felt always denied the accusations until finally it was announced in May, 2005. The operation had the intention of realizing clandestine listening in moments in which the Nixon reelection was promoted.
" I am the type that they usually called 'deep Gullet ''', confessed Felt O'Connor, a lawyer of San Francisco. The article of O'Connor caused fuss in the mass media.

The critics, including who went to prison for the scandal Watergate, called it traitor for cheating the commander in chief. His admirers enthroned it like hero for exhibiting a corrupt government that realized actions concealed to sabotage the political adversaries.

The revelation crowned a history of failure that included more than three decades and seven presidents. It was the biggest mystery of Watergate, the topic of a book of big sale and the movie "All the President's Men" (All the men of the president), so influential that the whole generation of university students decided to devote herself to the journalism.

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Thousands of stranded passengers for snowfalls

Cold wave attacks big part of the country

Justin MacLean digs the snow in the entry of his house located in Eustis, Maine, on Monday, the 22nd. The population was covered by more than one meter of snow in less than 24 hours. Photo: Jeff Pouland / AP

Polly Aderson
AP

The climate in the exterior was frozen from end to end of the north of the country, with the buyers of gifts of last minute trembling with cold and thousands of stranded travelers in airports in moments in which the Christmas was coming closer.

The thunderstorms in the American center - north left without electricity to thousands of persons the weekend and propitiated authentic nightmares for the travelers on the first official day of the winter, in which the residents were fighting to spend the minor possible time outdoors.

In Maryland, the wind blasts in the high levels of the ambience during the night provoked electrical cuts in 13.000 houses and companies. The intense cold dominated the whole metropolitan area of Washington, DC, during the night and the dawn on Monday, the 22nd and Tuesday, the 23rd.

In the tiny population of Eustis, Maine, there was a snowfall superior to one meter.

As well as, in Marysville, Washington, to the north of Seattle, strong snowfalls provoked the partial collapse of a roof in the factory of Whitley Evergreen who produces modules of housings and buildings.

In the suburbs of Chicago there was found the frozen corpse of a 48-year-old woman in a sidewalk close to his house. The autopsy showed that he died of hypothermia.

On the strong Sunday snowfall in Portland, Maine, of 14,5 inches, overcame the previous mark for December 21, which was 12,4 inches, imposed in 1933.

Of another side of the country, snowfalls of between 30 to 35 centimeters rushed at Portland, Oregón, where they imposed a new mark from January, 1980. According to the quantity of snow that falls down while the thunderstorm moves towards other places, this one might turn into one of the 10 worst that have registered in the city.

The cold is the biggest danger increased by the winds of between 20 and 30 miles for hour that took the temperatures below 25 degrees centigrade under zero. damages.

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“Miss Sinaloa” was found by weapon

They involve queen with bands

(Left) Laura Zúñiga when “Miss Sinaloa“ was crowned in Mazatlán (Mexico) on July 8. In another photo, she appears with gunmen opposite to the seized weapon. Photo: AP

 

Arturo Pérez
Guadalajara, Mexico / AP

A queen of beauty of the state of Sinaloa was arrested while he was traveling with members of a band in a truck full of weapon.

The chief of the police of Straw hat, Francisco Alejandro Solorio, affirmed that Laura Zúñiga and seven men were detained shortly before the midnight of Monday, the 22nd in a military control in Zapopán, to the outskirts of the colonial city of Guadalajara.

Solorio indicated that Zúñiga was going in one of two trucks in which soldiers found rifles of assault AR-15, guns, ammunitions and 53.300 dollars.

Zúñiga said to the police that it was planning to travel to Bolivia and Colombia with the group.

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