Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relations. Not just from suspicions of illegality in aiding the Nicaraguan contras, though those suspicions threaten to undermine one of the President's most cherished goals. Not even just from further revelations of incompetence, cover-up or worse that may come out of probes by congressional committees and Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh building on the Tower findings, painful and protracted as that process will...
...IRRESPONSIBLE at present to call for the impeachment of the President. A special prosecutor and two Congressional committees are currently investigating his role in the Iran-contra affair. President Reagan erred in blatantly disregarding proper procedure; it would be unwise to make a similar mistake by leaping to a premature judgment...
...Prosecutors have taken six months to present their case against Director John Landis (Animal House) and others in the trial on involuntary manslaughter and negligence charges stemming from the deaths under a crashing helicopter of Actor Vic Morrow and two children during filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie in July 1982. Last week it was the defense's turn. Led by former Watergate Prosecutor James Neal, Landis took the stand. While admitting illegally hiring the child actors, he said no one had told him, nor did he realize, that the fiery scene was dangerous. Asked Neal...
...Prosecutor Michael Shaked presented an altogether different story about Demjanjuk's past. From the POW camp in Chelm, Shaked maintains, Demjanjuk was transferred to Trawniki, an SS center used for training guards to work in the concentration camps, and then to Treblinka, where he served between October 1942 and September 1943. The prosecution's primary exhibit is ID card 1393, made out in Demjanjuk's name and supposedly issued at the Trawniki training center. The defense contends that the card is a forgery by the Soviet KGB as part of an effort to harass the Ukrainian community...
During the period in question, the Boland Amendment prohibited U.S. funds from "directly or indirectly" supporting contra military operations. the legal questions, being vigorously pursued by Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh, focus on whether North and other officials participated in supplying weapons or merely encouraged private groups...