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...personal honor." The ex-president's downward slide began Tuesday, when his brother Raul Salinas was arrested for allegedly plotting a high-level murder. Wednesday, he withdrew his candidacy for chairman of the World Trade Organization. Thursday, prosecutors said President Salinas himself could be charged with impeding a probe of another killing -- the March 1994 shooting of PRI presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio, whom Salinas had chosen as his successor. Now, formerly timid critics are blaming him, in part, for the Dec. 20 devaluation that sent the peso plummeting...
Travelers can also go online to get the latest flights and fares from computerized sources like American Airlines' SABRE system. But this again raises the specter of possible bias. The U.S. Transportation Department launched a probe of SABRE and other airline-owned systems last fall after asta and several airlines complained that SABRE favored American's flights. In 1984 the Civil Aeronautics Board ordered major carriers to display flight information in an impartial manner...
...Brown Probe...
...appointment of an independent counsel if the evidence warrants. Republicans have been pressing the Justice Department to look into allegations that Brown may have violated disclosure requirements and evaded taxes as a result of some complicated transactions with a former business partner. Brown's attorney predicted that the probe would find no violations...
However, in April 1993, just as Q was getting started in Birmingham, the FBI launched the probe that led to the network's systematic dismantlement--its ``takedown,'' in the parlance of narcotics cops. First Denver was shut down, then Cleveland and last, in a surprise raid that had the suspects fleeing just minutes before the police arrived, Birmingham. The technique of ``letting it walk''--allowing drug shipments and couriers to proceed unhindered in order to keep suspected criminals ignorant of a wiretap--was used at every location. ``That strategy was the key,'' says lead investigator Steven Gomez. ``To the very...