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What is needed now is a bipartisan congressional committee headed by individuals whose honesty is unquestioned, like Senators Hugh Scott and Hubert Humphrey, to ferret out those in Congress whose campaigns have received illegal corporate financing...
...staunch Republican and initially a Nixon supporter, Mollenhoff was persuaded to assume the newly-created post by the president's expressed desire to ferret out the vestiges of past scandals and the seeds of future mismanagement. "I knew he was no angel," Mollenhoff said in an interview with the Crimson this week, "but I did think he was a salvageable political figure...
...rescue plan. For all the unpopular actions he was forced to take?cutting spending, raising taxes?he won respect by making hard choices with an even temper. But his record was somewhat blemished at year's end when he abruptly fired Maurice Nadjari, the special prosecutor appointed to ferret out corruption in the criminal justice system (see THE NATION...
...also used its agents to ferret out information about the organizations' financing and to photograph their leaders and determine their attitudes and home addresses. When the Washington police department organized a similar undercover operation, the CIA stopped its own project as unnecessary. Still the commission concluded that the CIA operation "went far beyond steps necessary to protect the agency's own facilities, personnel and operations, and therefore exceeded the CIA'S statutory authority...
Double Standard. Economic reporting is often found wanting in less visible ways. Reporters who would not hesitate to ferret out Watergate wrongdoing can be slow to investigate industry pricing policies, question whether suspiciously large price hikes are fully justified by rising costs or merely constitute price gouging, or examine the inflationary effects of monopolistic or Government regulatory policies. A recent Boston Herald-American story, for example, simplistically concluded that local retailers were raising their prices because "inflation is killing them...