Word: hatched
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With that death threat, the federal investigation into possible ties between Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan and various Mafia-related labor racketeers took on a more sinister tone. Silbey said it was the second such warning he has received in the past month Republican Orrin Hatch of Utah, chairman of the Senate committee, said that he had also received "some minor threats in this matter,'' but did not consider them "significant." However, the warnings to Silbey, Hatch said, "were serious," although there was no way to determine who had made the telephone calls. Declared Hatch: "They...
...Schiavone Construction Co., of which Donovan served as an executive vice president in charge of labor relations, that it had hired private detectives to do its own investigation of people who have raised allegations against Donovan. These, presumably, would include FBI informers, the members and staff of the Hatch committee, and perhaps even Special Prosecutor Leon Silverman, who was appointed in December to look into the charges raised against Donovan. Theodore Geiser, a Schiavone attorney, said that the company's gumshoes were also told to find out "who is deliberately leaking information to the media to prejudice an ongoing...
...threats and counterprobes have not slowed the investigation by the Special Prosecutor and the FBI. Nonetheless, senior FBI officials fear that some material involving Donovan may still be buried in the bureau's files. The FBI has already been embarrassed by disclosures that it failed to give the Hatch committee, which held Donovan's confirmation hearings, some details of the allegations against the Secretary made by FBI informers...
...sweeping U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion in most cases. The bishops soon abandoned above-the-fray moral preachments and plunged into down-in-the-trenches political action. They have now thrown their full weight behind a specific proposal that is due for a vote soon, Senator Orrin Hatch's constitutional amendment to give Congress and the states power to pass restrictive abortion laws...
...thirds of the states; so far, 31 of the necessary 34 states have done so. Never before in U.S. history has there been such a convention, and there would be no legal way to prevent it from reconsidering any part of the Constitution. Even staunch opponents of the Hatch amendment regard his proposal as by far the lesser of two evils...