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...Justice's allies, demanded items of such specificity that when the Feds arrived, there was little the recipients could do but swallow hard and hand over the goods. "We really laser-beamed it in on them so there was nowhere to move," says an executive who aided the probe. "We tried to make sure it wasn't just a couple of companies; we wanted to hit the entire industry so that everyone had a little cover. That way Microsoft couldn't train the guns on any one of us and say, 'You s.o.b.s are engineering this...
Satellite photos taken of the site six hours before the blasts finally revealed clear evidence of the preparations. They were beamed back to the National Imagery and Mapping Agency in Fairfax, Va. But the agency was on a routine schedule for processing photos from India. Congressional investigators will now probe whether that Pentagon agency was paying too much attention to foreign military bases instead of political targets like India. CIA photo analysts got their first glimpse of the incriminating shots when they strolled into work Monday morning. By the time they delivered their first report that Pokhran was being prepared...
...John F. Kennedy's orders, jumping off the rear bumper of his car just minutes before it entered its fatal swing through downtown Dallas in November 1963. Though Johnson's ruling on Merletti's claim is still weeks away, her decision is regarded as more pivotal to Starr's probe than her ruling last week voiding Executive-privilege claims for White House aides Bruce Lindsey and Sidney Blumenthal. "The Secret Service question is the big casino," said a White House official...
...civil matters, which even some of Starr's supporters felt was a stretch. Sources tell TIME that Starr's office is weighing still more charges out of the Little Rock grand jury against Hubbell for false statements he allegedly made to a federal agency during the original Whitewater probe. But none of this is likely to faze one of the President's closest friends. Starr, Hubbell declared last week, "can indict my dog, they can indict my cat, but I'm not going to lie about the President, I'm not going to lie about the First Lady or anyone...
...making Dumas France's fifth highest-ranking official. But that charmed life seemed on the verge of imploding last week when two French judges drove to his sumptuous home near Bordeaux and formally placed the 75-year-old Dumas under investigation for corruption in connection with a wide-ranging probe of France's Elf Aquitaine oil company...