Word: probed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hardly a novel. Rather it is a chronicle--day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute--of the final years of Alexander Panagoulis. And Alekos is not "a man," but a revolutionary consumed by his cause. He swears in the face of his torturers as they probe him with electric shocks; days after finishing five years in prison, he resumes dangerous underground activities; to embarrass the government, he begs the jury hearing his case to punish him with a death sentence. In his moral perfection, Alekos transcends us all, just as he transcends his biographer, leaving the reader humiliated...
...school had been built near the site. Alarmed by studies of damage to the residents' health, the Federal Government finally paid for the temporary evacuation of families. At present, 710 families have been declared eligible to move, and about half have left the area. Researchers are continuing to probe the residents' high incidence of cancer, birth defects and respiratory and neurological problems...
...turn, the job of the journalist in Argentina becomes difficult--if he decides to probe the plight of missing people. Cox explains that reporters at The Herald are under a great deal of pressure not to make mistakes, because any mistake could prove fatal. Fatal in what way? Cox says quietly the most innocuous thing would be the government deciding to close the paper and jail the editors. The violence in Argentina is so severe that an incorrect judgement on the part of a writer or editor could result in being "machine-gunned down in the street...
...Robert Dole of Kansas. Said he of the Justice Department's treatment of Billy: "You look at it one way and it looks very bad, and you look at it another way, and there's nothing much [wrong]." Some Senators clearly were beginning to believe that the probe was much ado about nothing...
Court Judge William Ingram found the white-haired Bonanno, 75, and Nephew Jack DiFilippi, 54, guilty of conspiring to interfere with a federal grand jury probe of four now defunct companies in San Jose, Calif.-two construction firms, a manufacturer of mattresses and a women's clothing company-that were run by the don's two sons, Salvatore (Bill), 48,* and Joseph Jr., 35. According to federal authorities, the companies were laundering money from illegal Mafia activities...