Word: probed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intolerable threat to a reduced American presence in Viet Nam remains a mystery. How the destruction of antiaircraft installations in North Viet Nam will ensure the safety of departing U.S. troops is clearly open to critical debate. What is to be gained from a sixto eight-week "defensive" probe across the Cambodian border is at best fuzzy speculation, and miserably incapable of justifying the immediate cost in American lives and the potential costs of an Indochina...
...friendliness of the U.S. government toward the junta was not particularly difficult to probe. Simply speaking, its leader-Lieut. Gen. Lon Nol-had long been uncompromisingly opposed to the "neutralism" of the Sihanouk regime, While in power. Sihanouk's government was characterized by its refusal to allow any American influence in the country, by its avowed antagonism to the U.S. presence in South Asia. To this end, Sihanouk had permitted North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces to use eastern Cambodia as a staging ground for operations against Allied troops in South Vietnam. In the Administration's view, the anti...
After a thorough probe of the accident that crippled Apollo 13 and endangered the lives of Astronauts James Lovell, Fred Raise and Jack Swigert, NASA Deputy Administrator George Low announced last week that the space agency had determined the probable cause: a short circuit that led to the explosion of an oxygen tank in the service module...
Determined to impeach Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, House Republican Leader Gerald Ford decided not to introduce a formal resolution That would be handled by the House Judiciary Committee, and Ford was afraid its liberal members might block his move. Instead, he urged a special probe into Douglas' conduct. The only approval required for that was from the conservative House Rules Committee. But liberals rapidly upset Ford's plan...
...prepare for the Judiciary Committee probe and whatever may follow it, Douglas hired a topflight lawyer: Simon H. Rifkind, a former federal judge and the New York attorney who represented Jacqueline Kennedy in her vain attempt to stop publication of William Manchester's book, Death of a President. In a letter to the New York Times written before Douglas hired him, Rifkind opened Douglas' defense by taking sharp issue with Gerald Ford's contention that "an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history...