Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...faced with anger, Shultz disclosed at a public congressional hearing that U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon John Kelly had bypassed the Secretary of State to conduct negotiations for the release of American hostages with, in Kelly's words, "arms to Iran as an inducement." Kelly had reported his results only to the White House, through a CIA "privacy" channel. Sources close to Kelly reveal that McFarlane, in a briefing in Washington, explicitly instructed the ambassador not to discuss the arms-hostages talks with the State Department. McFarlane in public testimony denied giving Kelly any instructions...
...Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department asked the bureau to conduct a preliminary investigation into an October 23 incident in which five white cadets dressed in white sheets entered the room of a Black freshman. They chanted obscenities and left a burned paper cross there...
Gooden and his four companions have been charged with battery on a police officer and of resisting arrest with violence--both felonies--as well as with disorderly conduct and careless driving...
Pages, many too many pages, have been spent analyzing and debating the similarities and differences between this latest fiasco and Watergate. Some argue breaking the law in the already dirty world of partisan politics pales in comparison with an attempt to conduct foreign policy illegally. Others argue that the more directly the President is involved, the more serious the scandal, and in that way Watergate is by far worse...
...good name to bring attention to himself and his wacky proposals. What is worse is when he does so in the service of ideas that betray an ignorance of what higher education is all about and the ways members of an intellectual community--any community, actually--ought to conduct themselves...