Word: probe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks after the Amtrak-Conrail collision outside Baltimore that claimed 16 lives, investigators from the Federal Railroad Administration had yet to find an equipment failure that would account for the tragedy. Instead, said FRA Administrator John Riley, the probe was focusing on the "human performance" of the train crews -- and the evidence was disturbing...
...into its brightest public spotlight ever. Lawrence Walsh, the independent counsel appointed to look into all aspects of Iranscam, has been empowered to investigate the private networks that supplied the contras. The special Senate and House investigating committees that will hold public hearings probably beginning next month intend to probe the role of the arms merchants as well...
...caught slipping arms to the Ayatullah's regime? In the byzantine world of the weapons dealers, it is as hard to determine what is truth and what is disinformation as it is to disentangle the mixture of visionary and conniver in the personalities of Ghorbanifar and Khashoggi. As investigators probe deeper into the scandal, Americans can only hope that Washington's policy does not prove to be as devious as the arms merchants say it was -- and as their own maneuvers often seem...
...conceived proposal that the Senate Intelligence Committee provide him with its findings on the Iran-contra matter. That way, said Reagan, the White House could declassify the information and release it "so the American people can judge for themselves" what the scandal is about. Since the still incomplete probe has found no evidence of presidential complicity in any misdeeds, the report might exonerate Reagan in the eyes of the public...
...selecting a special prosecutor (now called an independent counsel) to probe the affair, a three-judge panel in Washington provided a broad mandate to investigate five areas, including the "provision or coordination of support for persons or entities engaged as military insurgents in armed conflict with the government of Nicaragua since 1984." The man they picked is Lawrence ("Ed") Walsh, 74, a former federal judge and Viet Nam peace negotiator. Born in Canada, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1922 and spent much of his private career with the Wall Street law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell...