Word: probe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...court's ruling is unlikely to cause serious problems for the Iran- contra probe headed by Lawrence E. Walsh or for Independent Counsel James McKay's prosecution of White House Aide Lyn Nofziger. Last year both prosecutors accepted backup appointments from the Justice Department. Prosecutor Morrison refused similar protection. Earlier last week the Supreme Court put to rest for now questions about the validity of such "parallel appointments" by leaving intact a lower-court decision that turned aside a challenge brought by Lieut. Colonel Oliver North...
Though attention has focused on Li's closing of the exchange, that seems to have had nothing to do with his arrest. Officials say his detention resulted from a probe, launched before the crash, of the exchange's operations. The Hong Kong market, which has been almost unregulated, is known for its anything-goes philosophy. Insider trading is not discouraged, much less prosecuted, and there are few financial disclosure requirements for companies that list shares on the exchange...
...home, it is Milken who is being pursued. The U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan reportedly issued a new round of subpoenas in the long-running insider-trading probe of Milken and Drexel Burnham, allegedly implicated by Ivan Boesky in 1986. Milken and his firm have denied any wrongdoing...
Camarena's horrible death deeply strained relations between Washington and Mexico City. Though Mexican officials eventually arrested more than 60 people in connection with the case, no one has ever been convicted of the murder. Last week the U.S. moved to advance the probe as a federal grand jury in Los Angeles handed up indictments against nine defendants. (The U.S. claims jurisdiction because the murder of an American official anywhere in the world is a crime under federal...
...that time "Teller was the only guy in the lab who could go and see the President." Because of Teller's reputation for hyperbole, concedes Democratic Representative from California George Brown Jr., an SDI opponent and the member of the House intelligence committee who initiated a General Accounting Office probe, "Those in Congress and the scientific community tend to discount his exuberance. The President doesn't. The President thinks he is speaking with revealed wisdom...