Word: probe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some 40,000 suspected war criminals, convicts, deportees and others who are unwelcome in the U.S. To avoid interfering with the Austrian elections, Washington chose to conduct its own meticulous investigation, including the examination by a Justice Department team of previously unavailable records in the Yugoslav war archives. The probe gave careful scrutiny to material submitted on half a dozen occasions by Waldheim in his defense. In the end, the effort served only to turn up more incriminating evidence. Says a Justice Department official: "The more we checked, the worse...
Next week the Government will offer amnesty to perhaps half the nation' s illegal aliens while making it harder for the rest to live and work in the U. S. -- Texas Billionaire H. Ross Perot launches a private probe into what he believes is a network of former CIA agents and military officials. -- Richard Nixon analyzes the zero option. -- An unwanted garbage barge hunts for a friendly dump...
...more than 600 soldiers and civilian U.S. officials have been interrogated in a worldwide investigation of embassy security. Marine Commandant P.X. Kelley has endorsed an internal Corps memorandum suggesting that the Justice Department assist the Navy in its probe. The memo's rationale is that American civilians will soon by implicated and that military investigators are overburdened by the scope of the scandal. Three Marine guards have been charged with espionage and one with fraternizing with Soviet women. Another Leatherneck suspected of spying has been recalled from his station in Brazil, where he was living with a Russian woman...
...such stories were honored last week with the newspaper world's most coveted award, the Pulitzer Prize. The Philadelphia Inquirer, in an unusual coup, won two in the same category, investigative reporting. One went to John Woestendiek, whose day-to-day coverage of the prison beat led him to probe the case of Terence McCracken Jr., a teenager convicted of murdering an elderly man during a holdup. Woestendiek's yearlong investigation, which included interviews with several witnesses who placed McCracken elsewhere at the time of the crime and a re-examination of forensic evidence that had helped convict him, resulted...
...Congress is scheduled to begin its public hearings on the Iran-contra affair. While the scandal has been off the front pages recently, congressional investigators and Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh have slowly and meticulously been building a powerful case against the melodrama's key players. Sources close to the probe told TIME last week that there is now "enough evidence to indict people...