Word: inquest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Watergate, the first high officials stood formally accused. So far the criminal charges against them did not directly bear on Watergate, but they obviously reflected the amorality and the motives behind the wiretap and the many connecting offenses. Obviously also, the indictments were only the beginning of a long inquest that would produce many more charges...
...When the Constitution was ratified, Congress was called the 'Grand Inquest of the Nation,'" Berger said. He explained that the British Parliament's right of inquiry into the executive branch was adopted by the founders of the U.S. Constitution, and was never questioned until recently...
...attraction was a real-life melodrama not unlike the scripts that have been shot on location in the desert around Gila Bend. An inquest was being held into the death of the young business manager of English Actress Sarah Miles. The manager, David Whiting, was found dead in Miles' motel room a month ago during the shooting of MGM's western, The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing. Pills and bottles were scattered around his body, and bruises and a bloody cut were found on his head. Miles and her co-star Burt Reynolds had originally declined to testify...
...came to be on a pillowcase, towel, tissues and the washbasin in his own room, as well as on a blue sweater he had apparently been wearing. Also unaccounted for were the severe cut on the back of his head and scratches on his stomach, chest and knuckles. The inquest was adjourned for a week awaiting a report from Dr. Thomas Noguchi, chief medical examiner of Los Angeles County. Whiting's mother, a white-haired woman in a woolen cap and fraying coat, attended the inquest and said she was unsatisfied with the testimony...
...actions -- the suit nor the hearings -- was prompted by the officers' clearing by the grand jury. Haroz and Corcoran claim separately. Yet in all remarks from workers at Hard Times this week, there was anger at the manner in which testimony at the hearing and the earlier inquest was kept from the public...