Word: probed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...based Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador triggered a two-year nationwide surveillance of CISPES and nine other activist groups. But FBI Director William Sessions told Congress last week that much of Varelli's story turned out not to be true, and the CISPES probe involved serious "mistakes in judgment...
...addition to his responsibilities at Northeastern, Ryder also belongs to several special committees active in higher education. Recently, Congress asked Ryder to participate on the National Commission on Student Financial Assistance, a special board which will probe the issue of federal funding for college students...
...subject Milken studiously avoided was the intensive 22-month federal probe of the junk-bond department he heads at the Drexel Burnham Lambert investment firm, but the matter soon forced itself on him. Suddenly his lawyer . was summoned from the room. Within minutes he returned and led Milken away. Down the hall the attorney informed Milken that a long-feared moment had arrived: the Securities and Exchange Commission was filing a weighty civil complaint against him, his employer and several colleagues...
...Next the surgeon threads a combination cutting-suction device the diameter of a pencil lead down the cannula, pushes it gently into the center of the disk and steps on a floor pedal. Suction draws disk material, which has the texture of crab meat, into a porthole near the probe's tip. There it is neatly sliced off with a tiny pneumatically driven guillotine-like blade that slides back and forth. After each cut, the probe is flushed of disk tissue, which is sucked out and collected in a bottle...
Whether or not Goodwin's amateur psychiatry is clinically correct, he has dared probe a dim corner of Washington history, a suppressed repository of whispered stories and yellowing memos written in shocked disbelief, describing Johnson's stalking the back corridors of the White House and fulminating about the enemies he saw surrounding him. Nor is such speculation confined to Johnson. In the final throes of Watergate, the tortured Richard Nixon could not focus on meetings, wandered the White House halls at night and sank to his knees in prayer with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, behavior that suggested to some...