Word: probe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marines have landed, again, and Israel launches a massacre probe...
While Lebanese authorities have been slow to investigate the incident, the Israeli Cabinet last week voted to launch a high-level judicial inquiry into Israel's role in the massacre. The move was an about-face by Begin, who had initially refused to consider such a probe. Instead, he had sought to limit the political damage by appointing Supreme Court Chief Justice Yitzhak Kahan, 69, as a special investigator but one without explicit authority to compel witnesses to testify or to demand documents. Begin's chosen investigator did not go along with the plan. Since two petitions demanding...
...Cabinet. The implication was clear: the government would fall if those ministers withdrew their support. Even Begin seemed to realize that defiance was hopeless. On the eve of the crucial Cabinet meeting, his aides passed the word that he was receptive to the idea of a judicial probe...
...hate him. In many ways, he is a likeable person, but I do not think he is qualified to be President. Kennedy is a superb candidate for a nomination because people are intrigued with his looks, wealth, speaking ability and family name. But when you probe and ask people if they want him in the White House, his support tends to evaporate. My guess and hope is that the same thing will happen in 1984. People ask: Can the man be trusted to make difficult decisions under pressure with an undergirding of integrity...
...call for a formal commission of inquiry. Only after days of rising protest did Begin agree to ask Supreme Court Chief Justice Yitzhak Kahan to conduct an investigation. If he undertakes the assignment, Kahan will probably not have the power to subpoena witnesses, which will surely hamper his probe. By appointing Kahan to the task, Begin quieted some of his foes and bought himself a little time. But his government was in deep trouble, and his rhetoric last week suggested that he knew...