Word: probe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case threatened last week to spin out of control. Despite mounting evidence of U.S. displeasure over the affair, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir stubbornly resisted backing a proposed Israeli investigation into the scandal as long as he could before finally yielding to the growing pressure for a full-scale probe. Shamir's position was that the Pollard case was over and Israel had apologized sufficiently to the U.S., and he seemed bent on dismissing the matter as a "rogue" operation that had been approved by neither Israel's leaders nor its principal intelligence organizations...
...Prime Minister's opposition to a full-scale probe was supported initially by the two ranking Labor Partiy members in the ruling coalition, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Though no love is lost between the three men, Shamir refrained from criticizing officials of the Labor Party for their roles in Iranscam; and Peres and Rabin, both former Prime Ministers, were backing Shamir's position that the less said about Pollard, the better it would be for Israel. That cozy arrangement, made possible by the 30-month-old coalition between Likud and Labor, made some Israelis uncomfortable...
...line with the Administration's stated eagerness to cooperate in full disclosure of the Iranscam mess, Attorney General Edwin Meese publicly came to the aid of the Walsh probe on the ticklish issue of its legal validity. The Walsh investigation was challenged two weeks ago in U.S. district court by attorneys for fired National Security Council Aide Oliver North. They asserted that the broad mandate given to the court-appointed special prosecutor under the 1978 Ethics in Government Act is a violation of the constitutional separation of powers...
Students paraded into a meeting of the faculty senate chanting, "No more lying, no more cheating." The faculty called for a probe of the board of governors by the university's 71-member board of trustees, which has ultimate control over campus affairs. The accreditation board of the United Methodist Church, which owns S.M.U., began a study of whether to sever the church's ties with the school, which date back to its founding...
...very least, the legal uncertainty may encourage some witnesses to snub investigators in the Iranscam probe and other inquiries (among them, the investigation of former Reagan Aide Lyn Nofziger on conflict-of-interest charges). The threat is serious enough that Justice Department officials and congressional leaders are talking of a possible compromise: President Reagan could reappoint the same independent counsel himself, thus circumventing the constitutional problem. Says Stanley Brand, former counsel to the House of Representatives: "Unless they work this out, we could be headed for a crisis of confidence in the administration of justice...