Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...holdings to his handling of the covert mining of Nicaragua's harbors. Last week he was once again under fire for his alleged role in another undercover operation: a House subcommittee accused Casey, who headed Ronald Reagan's election campaign, of receiving purloined briefing papers from the Carter White House. After a ten-month investigation, the House Human Resources subcommittee headed by Democrat Donald Albosta of Michigan found that "the better evidence indicates that Carter debate briefing materials entered the 1980 Reagan-Bush campaign through its director, William J. Casey...
...Justice Department reported in February that it had uncovered no evidence of criminal wrongdoing during its investigation of how Ronald Reagan's 1980 campaign obtained briefing papers from the Carter White House. Accordingly, Attorney General William French Smith decided against appointing a special prosecutor. Press interest began to wane, and the Administration breathed a collective sigh of relief that the potentially combustible case seemed closed. But last week it was revived when U.S. District Judge Harold Greene ordered the appointment of a special prosecutor. In a toughly worded 31-page ruling that drew some parallels to Watergate, Greene called...
...Banzhaf III, a George Washington University law professor, and Peter Meyers, a criminal-law specialist. They argued that under the Ethics in Government Act, passed in 1978 as a post-Watergate reform, Smith was obligated to ask for a special prosecutor (now technically called an "independent counsel") in the Carter case. "What we had here was an investigation that was rife with partisanship," says Banzhaf...
Basic questions about the Carter papers remain unanswered: Was there an orchestrated effort by Reagan agents to penetrate the Carter campaign? Were documents illegally taken? A House subcommittee headed by Democratic Congressman Donald Albosta of Michigan is expected to report its conclusions this week. A new probe would be embarrassing to Reagan during a campaign year, when Democrats are accusing his Administration of "sleazy" conduct. In addition, an inquiry would further jeopardize the nomination of Edwin Meese as Attorney General, which is on hold while another special prosecutor, Jacob Stein, looks into allegations about Meese's finances...
...First Lady from Plains, Carter...