Word: probe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coup attempt, Washington passed word to coup leaders that if they were successful, the U.S. would halt military aid to the Philippines, effectively paralyzing all operations against the Communists. Aquino, says U.S. Senator Richard Lugar, "has to organize her armed forces and find persons she can depend upon to probe these grievances and pull together an organization that she can depend on." Adds Lugar: "This is easier described than done...
...isolated incident. But soon afterward, several workers at Drake called local station WCPO-TV to say there had been an unusually high number of unexplained deaths on the wards where Harvey had worked. The station's investigative report on the subject in June prompted a grand jury probe. The bodies of ten people were exhumed by the Hamilton County coroner, and traces of arsenic were discovered in several. Last week WCPO reported that Harvey admitted to police he killed 34 people: 23 patients at Drake, five at a local Veterans Administration hospital where he used to work, and six others...
...When he presumably learned about the diversion from the hasty fact-finding probe of Attorney General Edwin Meese, he commendably made the startling fact public. Yet he made no effort to find out how this had happened from either Poindexter or North, who knew the details. One possibility was that the President already knew more than he cared to reveal...
...status not only of PTL but also of ten other major televangelist organizations. The committee has asked PTL representatives, among others, to appear at a hearing, probably in September. Texas Democrat J.J. Pickle, a member of the committee, last week met with the eleven religious broadcasters involved in the probe, including Falwell and Preacher Jimmy Swaggart of Baton Rouge, La., to question them closely about TV ministries' finances...
...directed from El Salvador because of the tactics, the methodology, and because it is impossible to believe that anyone living here could think these crude tactics could work in the U.S." California Democrat Don Edwards, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights, has launched a congressional probe into purported reprisals against Central American dissident groups. Says Edwards: "It is clear that all of the break-ins were against those opposing the Administration's Central American policies. Now it's starting to be violence against people...