Word: panels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...startled listeners by saying of private Nicaraguan funding "I've known what's going on there. As a matter of fact, for quite a long time now, a matter of years . . . It was my idea." The committee was unable to link Reagan to the illegal aid, but the panel's conclusions were damning: "The common ingredients of the Iran and contra policies were secrecy, deception and disdain for law. A small group of senior officials . . . destroyed official documents and lied to Cabinet officials, to the public and to elected representatives in Congress." At year's end, Reagan reverted...
...This will be painless," declared Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph Biden last week. And so it was for Supreme Court Nominee Anthony Kennedy, as he breezed through his confirmation hearings before the same panel that put Robert Bork through a bruising, highly partisan interrogation last summer. Kennedy's deferential manner, as well as a "well-qualified" rating from the American Bar Association, guaranteed easy treatment...
...Leon Jaworski carried out in Watergate -- investigating and prosecuting alleged wrongdoing by senior Government officials in the Executive Branch. With memories of Richard Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre still fresh, Congress aimed to make any future independent counsel more autonomous. It required that they be appointed by a special panel of three federal judges and shielded from arbitrary presidential dismissal. It was left to the Attorney General, however, to decide, after an initial investigation, whether the accusations were sufficiently credible to justify such an appointment...
Support for the new stand came from Joseph Bernardin of Chicago, the only Cardinal on the bishops' administrative board and a member of the panel that drafted the document. Bernardin, the chief spokesman of the more liberal wing of the U.S. hierarchy, said he was "pleased" with the new policy because it is "faithful to the Catholic doctrinal and moral tradition, and it is sensitive to the human dimensions of the issue...
Barrington Bell Jr., the jury fore man, said the panel reached its verdict "after very intense, and I mean intense, deliberations...