Word: probe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Richard Nixon's book The Real War, the former President says that Soviet military strategy is based on the theory that you "probe with bayonets. If you encounter steel, withdraw. If you encounter mush, continue." In light of this, I do not believe President Reagan is playing a frivolous video game. He is using shrewd military strategy. Richard Jensen Atlanta...
U.S.S.R. The Soviets have long resisted such measures as a violation of their sovereignty and their own right to protect legitimate military secrets that the U.S. would like to probe under the pretext of arms control. SALT contains only measures that can be verified by "national technical means": spy satellites and remote monitoring stations outside the U.S.S.R...
...case began on Nov. 8,1980, when a white police officer, Gregory Neupert, 23, was found dead, shot in the neck in a predominantly black neighborhood of the Algiers section of New Orleans. The police mounted a furious probe, in the course of which four blacks were killed by investigators under circumstances that are still not entirely clear. Then Police Superintendent James Parsons resigned. Grand juries were convened to investigate the killings and consider allegations of police beatings of three blacks and one white in order to obtain leads and evidence in the Neupert case...
...Standard Oil of California announced the next day that it hoped to buy Amax, Reed's options appreciated to a net value of $427,000. But Reed had spoken with his father, an Amax director, minutes before he purchased the options. The Securities and Exchange Commission began a probe that ended in formal accusations against Reed of illegal "insider trading," charging that he had been tipped off in advance about the impending purchase...
...warnings last week. Agca has changed his story in the past, however, and Judge Martella has yet to announce major breakthroughs in his seven-month investigation into Agca's charges of a Bulgarian-sponsored plot to kill the Pope. Whatever the truth of the latest allegations, each new probe uncovers increasing evidence of Bulgarian-sponsored efforts to destabilize an important member of the Western alliance...