Word: proceeded
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Those who take a restricted view of the Constitution's language on impeachment question whether there is sufficient cause for taking any action against the President at present. They do not deny or underestimate the scope and extent of Watergate crimes, but they would proceed with all due caution. Louis H. Pollak, a Yale law professor, feels that Nixon should not be impeached unless there is evidence of his actual involvement in illegal activities such as the Watergate cover-up or the plumbers' burglary. In other words, the President must be shown to be guilty of a crime...
...unleashing the military to topple him as it did in 1955, and the chance that the police and rightist parapolice might see his call to arms as a declaration of war on the leftists. At the moment, he is being careful not to spell out exactly how he will proceed...
...report must first of all define what are impeachable offenses within the Constitution's "high crimes and misdemeanors" rubric; then it must determine whether the President might be guilty of any of the offenses. Once the report is presented, the Judiciary Committee has to decide whether to proceed further with an impeachment inquiry-almost a foregone conclusion. A more critical problem for the committee is whether to depend on evidence gathered by others or to undertake an original investigation of its own. In either case, the committee would probably request and get the power to issue subpoenas from...
...tank-driving instructor, and he soon gained mastery over the 14 gears. "I'm starting to enjoy this," he said. When the three-week course is up, however, Mark will not mediately be able to use his skills as he is under marching orders to proceed to Canada with Wife Anne on an official visit, then to muster with Queen Elizabeth (to whom he was made a personal aide-de-camp on New Year's Day) in the Antipodes for a tour of New Zealand...
...Geneva both sides still seemed eager to put an optimistic face on their negotiations. At week's end they announced that they had reached "consensus on some principles of disengagement." If they can reach an agreement on this critical problem within the next week or two, they can proceed to talks on such detailed matters as frontiers, demilitarized zones and security guarantees...