Word: probed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIME has learned that Helms had already assured Gray the day before that the CIA could in no way be hurt by any Watergate investigation and he told Haldeman and Ehrlichman this. Nevertheless, Walters did go to Gray and suggest a potential CIA interest in holding back the Mexican probe. The snarl did for a time hamper the Watergate investigations, and the cause clearly was pressure from Nixon's two closest
...memos given to two Senate committees, Walters claimed that the two White House aides told him that Nixon wanted the FBI to understand that such an investigation might hamper CIA operations in Mexico. After some hesitation, Walters and then CIA Director Richard Helms decided that a Mexican probe would not compromise the CIA, and so advised...
...during the Watergate investigation. He has left no doubt that he will keep complete charge of the case. He talked with Richardson before accepting the job and presented several suggestions for redefining it; many of these suggestions have been incorporated into the guidelines that Richardson drafted to assure the probe's independence. Cox, who has been encouraged to maintain offices outside the Justice Department, will appoint his own staff and plans to make public reports on the progress of the investigation. "A prosecutor does not normally take his findings before the public," says Cox, "but in this case...
...Rand, a neurosurgeon at the University of California at Los Angeles, has demonstrated a particular knack for encouraging just that sort of scientific serendipity. A decade ago he borrowed from the emerging technology of cryogenics (application of temperatures close to absolute zero*) and helped to adapt an extremely cold probe to destroy hard-to-reach pituitary tissue in brain operations. Now Rand is making use of another recently utilized phenomenon: superconductivity. With the help of a powerful "superconductive" magnet, he is accomplishing knifeless, bloodless destruction of tumors...
SENATOR HOWARD H. BAKER JR., 47, a serious and hard-working Republican from Tennessee, benefits from having been named co-chairman of the select committee investigating Watergate. Baker, a moderate conservative, has been urging a "no holds barred" probe. He is certain to get more (and favorable) public exposure when televised hearings begin...