Word: probe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million in assistance could not be accounted for. In Miami two weeks ago, contra dissidents told reporters that field commanders had bilked the U.S. by submitting false receipts for food and supplies. Contra leaders denied the charges, but the Republican-controlled Senate Foreign Relations Committee has begun its own probe...
Three former senior employees of the agency had charged that Shalom ordered the two captured Arabs clubbed to death and then covered up the organization's role before two official investigations into the killings. Rising calls for a new probe were opposed by both Labor Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, head of the Likud bloc in Israel's national unity coalition. They insisted that an inquiry into Shin Bet's role in the deaths could expose state secrets...
...Israel's General Security Service), which handles antiterrorism intelligence operations. "There will be no whitewash of the affair," Harish told reporters. Still, few doubted that the Attorney General would come under heavy pressure from the Cabinet of Labor Prime Minister Shimon Peres to limit the scope of any probe...
Zamir, meanwhile, was accused of trying to push the probe along by leaking details of the case to reporters. Israeli newspapers quoted a "senior judicial source" as saying that the two Palestinians were killed in a "lynching" by five Shin Bet agents on the orders of Director Avraham Shalom. Two Likud members of parliament and a dozen lawyers have filed police complaints against Zamir identifying him as the source. The former Attorney General denied any impropriety. The press reported that the three former Shin Bet officials who sparked the affair by going to Zamir with the cover-up story have...
...insensitivity to the atmosphere of nepotism created by the fact that her brother-in-law and sister held bureau jobs, as did her husband, Officer Bruce Gary Harrington. The commission questioned the friendliness the chief and her husband had shown to a Portland businessman being investigated in a cocaine probe; it recommended a 25-day suspension of Gary Harrington. Penny Harrington, who declared herself "shocked" by the findings, was almost certainly made more vulnerable by the mayor's own troubles: Clark is the target of a recall effort...