Word: branches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pisces started small, when DEA agents posing as money launderers infiltrated the U.S. branch of the Colombian drug-smuggling cartel. Over time, the undercover cops won the confidence of higher-ups through efficient, discreet service. And they obtained unprecedented cooperation from authorities in Panama, where many of the drug Mafia's ill-gotten gains were traced. Besides netting hordes of drug traffickers, the coolly efficient agents showed a profit. Operation Pisces made $4.3 million in money-laundering commissions before the DEA wrapped up the operation...
...discovery. Scientists from the University of Tokyo took a look at the substance. Says Muller: "The Japanese weren't smiling, and they confirmed it. Then the United States sat up." By the end of the year, confirmation had come from China and the U.S., and suddenly a nearly moribund branch of physics was the hottest thing around. Large industrial and government laboratories jumped in; so did major universities. At Bell Labs, a team led by Bertram Batlogg and Ceramist Cava had launched their own program of alchemical tinkering. Soon they had manufactured a similar compound that became a superconductor...
...aide last week: "You can never tell in what direction a hearing like this may go." Panel Member Peter Rodino, the New Jersey Congressman whose steady hand in 1974 dignified the impeachment proceedings against Nixon, hears echoes. "We have a situation again where we have much of the Executive Branch misunderstanding the rule of law," he says. "We just can't let that go unchallenged and unaddressed...
...United News of India said some witnesses at the scene said the bomb apparently was in a car parked in front of a branch of the Bank of Ceylon near the bus terminal. Police said they could not immediately confirm the report...
...Cooperation in such cases between the U.S. and the Soviet Union began in the early 1970s. In 1979 the Justice Department established a Nazi-hunting branch, the Office of Special Investigations; since then 23 naturalized Americans have been stripped of their citizenship and 13 removed from the U.S. Some 600 more cases are under investigation. Soviet-supplied evidence, including video-taped eyewitness testimony and wartime documents seized by advancing Soviet forces, has played some part in a majority of the cases that have come to court in the U.S., including that of John Demjanjuk, the retired autoworker from Cleveland...