Word: probed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McCarthy, who is responsible for the current probe into American handling of CBW, dealt specifically with gases and defoliants used in Vietnam in his talk. He gave evidence to show that herbicides, 245T in particular, have disastrous effects on childbirth...
Appeals may well soften those sentences and probe potentially reversible errors by Hoffman. But the outcome may be confusing. Although the Chicago Seven were acquitted of conspiracy -thanks to the jury that most of them disdained-the courtroom warfare may make it unnecessary for an appeals court to rule on the constitutionality of the antiriot law on First Amendment grounds. Whatever the result, the Chicago trial underscores an old lesson: courts are poor places for resolving ideological conflicts. In a strong democracy, such cases should not be inevitable in times of social stress. When they do occur, the judicial process...
...April occupation of University Hall by over 250 students and the April 10 police bust in Harvard Yard, the Freund Committee-appointed by Pusey to "investigate possible misconduct of members of the University teaching staff" during and after the occupation-was criticized by many as the first such probe since the McCarthy...
Mitchell's pledge to negotiate will not end the problem of subpoenas on the press. For one thing, negotiation does not ensure agreement. For another, the Justice Department has not been alone in efforts to probe newsmen's files. State attorneys and defense lawyers have also been caught up in the trend and there is no assurance that they will follow Mitchell out of it. Perhaps it will take a court challenge to establish where freedom of the press ends and aid to attorneys begins. But Mitchell, at least, seems conciliatory at present...
...Military Assistance Command's Office of Information (MACOI) in South Viet Nam. Its Saigon accreditation office issued press cards last month to four U.S. military investigators. What they were supposed to investigate is unclear, though genuine correspondents in Saigon suspect they intended to use their press cover to probe sources of news leaks, the operation of the black market and the scope of antiwar movements. Despite attempts by the agents to melt invisibly into the Saigon press corps, their cover was quickly blown. MACOI tried to brush off the incident by blaming it on a major who had approved...