Word: probed
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...California businessman who, according to court documents disclosed last week, is being investigated by the Los Angeles County district attorney for allegedly selling stock in violation of state securities laws. The businessman is not Jones but Michael Reagan, 35-year-old son of the President, which guarantees that the probe will get extensive public attention...
Before the trial, Government lawyers had joked among themselves that Kelly's best defense would be to play the video tape backward. His defense was even more bizarre. He claimed that he took the money as part of his own probe of congressional corruption. The charges against him, he testified, were just another attack by the Establishment, which he said has been out to get him ever since he left the Rhode Island orphanage where he was reared. Kelly has served successively as a lawyer in New Port Richey, Fla., an assistant federal prosecutor, Florida state circuit court judge...
Heymann, terming it "a courageous and imaginative investigation that will have a major effect for some time," said Abscam was not initially aimed at Congress. The investigation began as a probe into an art theft, which then grew to cover illegal activities in Atlantic Beach casinos and immigration, he said...
Earlier this week Reagan proved that he does not intend to probe the hypocrisy and danger of U.S. involvement in El Salvador. By firing Ambassador Robert White--ostensibly withdrawn from the country to Washington D.C. for "consultations"--Reagan demonstrated that he will not tolerate dissent on U.S. policy from an American official. Like his conservative advisor, U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, Reagan believes it is wise to support "mildly" repressive regimes, and, perhaps, if you close an eye and both ears, El Salvador's junta--responsible for 10,000 political murders last year--is "mildly" repressive...
Sputnik I, a tiny dot of light moving across the autumn sky, did what nothing else had done for nearly 20 years: it scared Washington. The people who knew the implications, like Astronomer John Hagen, head of Project Vanguard, America's own unborn space probe, stayed up all night linking a hasty network of aerials to catch the faint beeps of the intruder that mocked the presumed U.S. technological superiority. Power and politics were never again the same in the capital. Sputnik signaled a new superpower on the prowl. Space, for the moment, was the area of contention...