Word: probe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mike Barnes, D-Md., the target of the most hard-hitting of Channell's commercials last spring, said Sunday he would formally request on Monday a congressional probe of allegations that money diverted from the sale of U.S. arms to Iran was funnelled into such conservative groups...
...satisfy Congress. In a letter to Meese that put on the record what many other legislators had demanded, a House Judiciary Subcommittee requested the appointment of a Watergate-style independent counsel. Subcommittee Chairman John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat, bluntly challenged the Attorney General's ability to conduct an impartial probe, citing among other things "your closeness to the President." The White House is so far resisting calls for such a special prosecutor. But as more information emerges each day, it becomes less likely that the affair can be concluded simply through Meese's probe...
...plot could be torn from yesterday's headlines: SEA SHEPHERD FROM OUTER SPACE. Imagine that the environmental activists who recently sank two Icelandic whaling vessels were the rulers of a 23rd century planet, and that they had sent to earth a probe with signals that could be answered only by humpback whales -- a species that had been hunted to extinction by blubber- lusting 20th century man. If the whales don't talk back, the earth blows up. So the Star Trek crew must become time travelers. They must boomerang their stolen Klingon warship around the sun, land in San Francisco...
...president announced Tuesday that his administration would seek appointment of an independent counsel to probe the issue, although the White House disclosed that Attorney General Edwin Meese III is still at work on the formal application...
Senate Republican and Democratic leaders met privately to discuss establishment of an 11-member "supercommittee" to take over the investigation in January, but in the meantime, the Senate Intelligence Committee pursued its own probe...