Word: probe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...move put some space between Washington and Manila and left open the possibility that Reagan could say no to the visit at a later date, if the Marcos government is indeed implicated. At midweek Marcos announced the formation of a five-member fact-finding judicial commission to probe the assassination. Critics charged at once that the commission, which contained no opposition figures, is unlikely to be impartial. Marcos named the very independent Cardinal Sin to the panel, but the respected prelate refused to participate. Publicly, the Cardinal pleaded conflicting religious duties. Privately, an aide reportedly claimed, he felt he would...
...Attorney General William French Smith, Ryan proposed a full-scale probe into the U.S. ties to Barbie, "the Butcher of Lyon" accused of the execution of 4,000 people and the deportation of 7,000 Jews living in France to concentration camps during the German occupation. The remarkable 218-page report of Ryan's five-month investigation, involving 200 interviews around the world, was released last week: it confirms that the Army's Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) hired Barbie as a spy in Germany after World War II and for four years hid him from the French...
...probe started when FBI agents opened a law office on La Salle Street and joined the knots of attorney "hustlers" who hang around many courtrooms drumming up business. One frequently offered service: asking clients for upfront money "to pay off the judge." The Feds evidently infiltrated judicial ranks with at least one visiting informer-judge: flamboyant downstate Circuit Judge Brocton Lockwood of Marion, who claims that he collected evidence of payoffs with a tape recorder stuffed into his cowboy boots. Lockwood found that the going rate to fix a drunken-driving charge...
...Government, for one, is determined to find out. The Justice Department believes the company carried out a "massive tax-fraud scheme" in 1980 by diverting some $20 million in profits from its subsidiary in New York City to its headquarters in Switzerland. The department's probe has resulted in a prolonged legal face-off with the firm. The latest crisis came last week, when Federal Judge Leonard Sand threatened to freeze up to $55 million in Marc Rich & Co. assets at some 20 domestic banks and companies, a move which would have paralyzed the company's U.S. operations...
Earthwatch, a nonprofit scientific research organization based in Belmont, Mass., will send 625 vacationers on expeditions that include a probe of 90-gun H.M.S. Coronation, which sank off Plymouth in 1697, and a dig for Bronze Age artifacts along the Esk River on the Scottish border. Virtually every European country offers at least two or three music festivals, and almost everywhere, every week, there are rumbustious folk festivals, with such attractions as jousting knights, wrestling Tyroleans, strawberry-eating contests, battling bargemen and tootling bands. A country-by-country summary of seasonal highlights...