Word: probed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...questions of Jewishness. The lawyer is appointed to rid the community of these symbols of religious exclusivity and suffering. But the lawyer undergoes a transformation of identity and winds up wearing the D.P.'s clothing, and beating his breast in ritual anguish. Michael Tolan undergoes this probe of the tribal subconscious with moving sensitivity...
...would they? That would depend partly on the temporary chairman of the convention Credentials Committee, who, for the first time, would select examiners to go into the states to probe reform challenges. The examiners' recommendations on whom to seat would then be accepted or rejected by the full committee. But by picking the judges, the temporary credentials chairman will be able to influence the outcome of disputes. As a result, when the National Committee convened in Washington last week to select the temporary credentials chairman for 1972, there was more than casual interest in the election. When...
...grand jury probe, which continues at high speed in Boston and in Los Angeles, is a direct threat to the anti-war movement and to the constitutional rights which have traditionally allowed such movements to exist. Even if it were being conducted under more restrained and strictly legal circumstances, the investigation would appear repugnant to the many who feel that Daniel Ellsberg's action was fully justified. As it is, the grand jury's activity has amounted to an uncalled-for inquisition of Ellsberg's friends and associates...
This preoccupation with secrecy is not accidental, nor do government officials take it lightly. Initial press reports of the Boston grand jury indicated that the newspaper sources were none other than members of the jury itself. These reports stated that the jury conducting the probe had been impaneled in April; subsequent stories disclosed that the investigation was being undertaken by a grand jury sworn in last July. Court observers speculated that the government, in order to avoid leaks, had switched the case from one jury to the next--a move so legally questionable that it may invalidate any indictments...
Despite the fact that Ellsberg is still being investigated, and will be tried beginning next January in Los Angeles, the Boston investigation has taken on an importance of its own. Through the probe now taking place, the government appears to be aiming for indictments of newspaper reporters and anyone else who may have helped Ellsberg distribute the documents; the charge, presumably, would be interstate transport of illegally obtained property. Nonetheless, the government prosecution has no discernible scope or pattern, and its actions leave the distinct impression that it is engaged in a "fishing expedition" to acquire information which may lead...