Word: probed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...behest of the King himself, NARC's 24-man junta moved swiftly to set up Prime Minister Tanin and an 18-man Cabinet of soldiers, civil servants and technocrats as a "clean hands" government. Among its first official acts was the appointment of a committee to probe graft. As Army Secretary Kriengsak Chamanan, NARC's éminence grise, told TIME Correspondent William McWhirter, "We have learned the lessons of South Viet Nam and Laos. In those countries, corrupted politicians were a main cause of their downfall." It remains to be seen, though, if the committee will be able...
Last week, as bait for a British trade fair, Emett's incomparable Forget-Me-Not computer (it does everything but compute) drew wide-eyed throngs to Wanamaker's in Philadelphia. His Exploratory Moon-Probe Lunacycle MAUD, (Manually Assisted Universal ,Deviator), complete with Astrocat ("Since cats always land on their feet, she is carried to establish which way up gravity is"), is reverently ensconced in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. The Emett Vintage Car of the Future, dedicated to the Spirit of Future Retrogression, is installed at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry...
...thereby crippling it. But he denied at his vice-presidential confirmation hearings in 1973 that he had acted under White House direction. Even if he had, it would have been routine and reasonable for Ford, who was House Republican leader at the time, to do so because the Patman probe would have been politically embarrassing to the G.O.P. Ford then presumably had no knowledge that the White House was trying to cover up its own criminal involvement in Watergate...
...department has found no substantiation for the charges ... Ruff is aware of them." An IRS report on the investigation was sent to Justice Department officials just as Ford became Vice President in 1973, but they discounted it because of the low credibility of the informer. Ruff began to probe into the matter after he was tipped to the existence of the report by several sources, including an aide to a Democratic Congressman. Asked by TIME about these charges last week, Ford's chief of staff, Richard Cheney, said, "The charge is so outlandish and preposterous and also false that...
...removing the office of the special prosecutor from any political influence and making him responsible only to the charter under which he operates, Congress in effect required Ruff to continue to investigate even though the allegations might have seemed to be shaky and he undoubtedly knew that his probe would affect the elections...