Word: probe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Assistant U.S. Attorney E. Lawrence Barcella Jr., who is prosecuting the Wilson case, insists that "Mulcahy's death is not going to affect at all our ability to go forward." (Oddly, last spring a lesser prosecution witness disappeared near the Bahamas after his fishing boat exploded. An FBI probe declared the sinking an accident.) Nearly five years ago, when Mulcahy was the only witness the Government had, he was an ambivalent informer. "I'm not going to go to court," he told a federal prosecutor, "and testify publicly against those guys." The troubled crusader, it turned...
...Tylenol probe continues
...Lorean probe involved undercover agents of the FBI working closely with DEA officers, investigators from the U.S. Customs Service and with local police in Los Angeles and Ventura, Calif. Predicted Assistant FBI Director Roger Young after De Lorean's arrest: "This is only the tip of the iceberg as far as cooperation is concerned." Praising President Reagan's proposal two weeks ago to set up joint federal task forces throughout the nation to snare big drug suppliers, Young declared: "We've got the Commander in Chief saying, 'Go get 'em, guys.' No one can back down from cooperating...
...Harry's putting her on his Senate payroll in 1941 at $4,500 a year, almost half his Senate salary; and her acceptance while First Lady of a gift freezer that was linked to an alleged influence-peddling scandal. Neither issue did her much harm. During a Senate probe of the Democratic freezer flap, the highly partisan Republican Joseph R. McCarthy called her one of the "finest things about the White House" and declared her above suspicion...
...physicists and chemists probe ever deeper into the basic structure and behavior of matter, their disciplines have become increasingly merged. Even the Nobel selection committees sometimes seem to have difficulty telling the two apart. Last week Physicist Kenneth G. Wilson, 46, of Cornell University took the 1982 Nobel in his discipline. Another physicist, Aaron Klug, 56, of England's Cambridge University, was named the laureate in chemistry...