Word: probe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...constitutional rights" by sicking the G-men on him. He insisted that the FBI investigation was less interested in finding the source of the disinformation than in muzzling him. Weinberger stoutly denied any connection with the investigation. "What a cheap shot," said a Weinberger aide. Federal officials said the probe stemmed from a stepped-up effort by the State Department to crack down on disinformation. After all the hubbub, the source of the transcript printed by As Safir remains a mystery...
...thing could be said about Shultz's own comments last week. When asked at a press conference about the new Sandinista approach, the Secretary said, "I welcome that. Of course, what we want is for a reality to be put behind the rhetoric. So naturally we want to probe and find out what is there. If Nicaragua is genuinely moving in the right direction, that is fine...
...those who let the White House know that he would resign before allowing himself to be strapped to such a machine. Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese last week stressed that the leak could have jeopardized McFarlane's life in the volatile Middle East. But some aides suggested that the probe was part of the protracted power struggle between Baker and Clark, who is now the Interior Secretary. Said one Administration official: "It was total bull, and a pretty good indication of how bad relations were here before Clark left...
...become accustomed to such unusual rituals. The Vatican has been inundated with complaints from conservative parishioners, including one from the parents of the man whose coffin was decorated with balloons. Three weeks ago, Pope John Paul dispatched Archbishop James Hickey of Washington, D.C., on an extraordinary "apostolic visitation" to probe what Hunthausen has wrought...
PRESIDENT REAGAN trespassed a bit further on the freedom of the press last week when he ordered a Justice Department probe to discover who, among top administration officials, had leaked information that had jeopardized the safety of the administration's new top envoy to the Middle East Robert C. McFarlane. The President alleged that leaks about air-strikes--employed to ensure the safety of U.S. Marines in Lebanon--had endangered both McFarlane'x peace efforts and his personal safety. The FBI began questioning officials, cabinet members and foreign policy advisers, some of whom offered to take polygraph tests to insure...