Word: probed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, HEW's chief investigator, John J. Walsh, resigned from the department because he thought Califano was trying to slow down Walsh's investigation of Medicare fraud in California, particularly his probe of Flora Souza, president of Home Health, Inc. in San Jose...
...matter, Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus announced that an eleven-day probe of allegations that companies were hoarding gas on fields leased from the Government had raised enough questions to warrant a full-scale investigation of the industry's production practices. The study found that output in four of the five fields examined was 36% below the maximum production rate, and that many readily drillable gas reservoirs remained untapped. If the investigation uncovers evidence of illegality-for example, deliberate falsification of records of reserves-the case could be turned over to the Justice Department for possible action...
...arms control, Princeton's Robert G. Gilpin, a professor of international politics, worried that Carter was "exposing his hands too early and encouraging the Russians to probe how far they can go in extracting further concessions." Other experts noted that the Russians do not relish negotiating so openly and almost certainly will insist that their own positions be stated only in secrecy across the bargaining tables...
...commerce subcommittee headed by California Democrat John E. Moss announced it would open hearings into possible gas withholding in a week or two. Finally, President Carter let it be known that if evidence of impropriety turned up, he may direct Energy Adviser James Schlesinger to start a full-scale probe of gasmen's production policies...
...sooner said than Henry B. Gonzalez, the committee's new chairman, claimed that he had "new evidence" proving conspiracies in the two murders. Where was the proof? He could not say: it was secret. He also suggested that "sinister forces" were out to scuttle the probe. Who were they? FBI agents whom he could not name. Just such unsubstantiated allegations have been raising doubts about the shootings for years. The long struggle to clear up the Kennedy and King assassinations is still far from over...