Word: probe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mikulic's stature hit a new low last summer when an investigation uncovered Yugoslavia's biggest financial scandal since World War II. Led in part by the country's newly aggressive press, the probe found that Agrokomerc, a giant food-processing firm based in the republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, had issued up to $500 million in worthless IOUs to 63 Yugoslav banks and other enterprises. The revelations forced the country's Vice President, Hamdija Pozderac, to resign after the Belgrade newspaper Borba and other publications linked him to the scandal. Agrokomerc Chief Executive Fikret Abdic is in jail awaiting trial...
...Lonetree is telling the truth, then Bracy's original confession may indeed have been coerced. If so, someone ought to be investigating the investigators. The entire probe will be reviewed by Rear Admiral John Gordon, who only last September was appointed chief of the Naval Security and Investigative Command...
...latest inquiry into Hull's activities began two weeks ago, when the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Affairs opened hearings in Washington to probe U.S. Government loans to Hull and examine charges that contra suppliers operating from Hull's ranches had been flying shipments of cocaine and marijuana into the U.S. Said Subcommittee Special Counsel Jack Blum: "We will continue hearings into the question of how the ((contras')) war was used as a cover for narcotics operations...
...congressional investigators expect their probe to tie up some of the loose connections of the Iran-contra affair. Hull greatly admired former National Security Council Aide Oliver North, the contras' aggressive champion. When North's associate Robert Owen appeared before Congress's Iran-contra committees last spring, he read a treacly ode to the Marine colonel penned by none other than John Hull. The contras gain sustenance, the poem read, from the "knowledge that on this troubled earth there still walk men like Ollie North . . . In our lifetime, you have given us the legend...
Peter Smith, a spokesman for the JudiciaryCommittee, said yesterday that there have been "noindications" that other strategists' phones hadbeen tapped, and that the committee did not planto launch its own investigation. He added that thecommittee is not equipped to conduct such a probe...