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...crucial factor. Anticipating his candidacy and spurred by an effective New York Times Magazine piece by Robert Sherrill last July re-examining the case, several major news organizations had sent reporters to the tiny island across from Edgartown on Martha's Vineyard. TIME'S own preliminary probe turned up facts that contradicted key points in Kennedy's version of what happened; further disclosures seemed likely...
...situation was further complicated at the end of August when the grand jury finished its investigation. It refused to indict Hanna for manslaughter, and dropped all charges against him and the other officer involved in the killing. The district attorney called the grand jury probe "full, complete and very thorough." United League president Robinson called it "one of the lousiest investigations that has ever taken place in the state of Mississippi...
...committee [Foreign Relations] has received." The committee launched a review of the testimony and a probe into the Chilean affair...
...under investigation in disbarment proceedings. The turndown keeps that investigation alive, unless it is overruled by the California Supreme Court. Nixon contends that he has no plans to practice law and intends also to resign from the New York Bar Association. It too has initiated a preliminary disbarment probe and is likely to echo the California action if Nixon at tempts to resign in similar fashion...
...Nixon irrevocably pardoned, the moral basis for pursuing his co-conspirators is undermined, and the cases themselves are jeopardized. The Executive Branch has rendered the Judicial Branch incapable of performing its proper function under the law. So it remains for Congress to overrule the President, reopen the impeachment probe and thus resolve the question of Richard Nixon's culpability...