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...week's end Senate majority leader George Mitchell and Republican chief Bob Dole struck a deal that enabled the upper chamber to approve the idea of a probe, 98 to 0. The resolution, however, left in doubt "the appropriate timetable, procedures and forum"; Mitchell and Dole are to work those out. The Senate also specified that the hearings must not interfere with Fiske's probe. That means witnesses will not be given immunity. Also, each phase of ^ the hearings will begin only after Fiske has completed the relevant part of his investigation. Thus even the first hearings -- into contacts between...
...Bill Clinton knows all about him. Until last year, when the President fired every one of the nation's 93 U.S. Attorneys, Stephens was leading the federal investigation of House Ways and Means chairman Dan Rostenkowski for allegedly misusing his $1.3 million campaign fund, a probe intertwined with the House post-office scandal. Clinton's sacking of the federal prosecution chiefs is believed by some of the dismissed to have been a way of getting Stephens off Rosty's back. Now, though, Stephens is engaged in an even more sensitive inquiry, and this time Clinton could become a target...
Though battered by a federal probe into his financial dealings with the scandal-ridden House post office, House Ways and Means chairman Dan Rostenkowski, one of the President's chief allies in the health-care battle, won his toughest Democratic primary yet. The victory was due in no small part to all-out help from Chicago's famed political machine and heavy campaigning by top national Democrats, from Clinton on down...
...parts, including skins, and a host of other banned animal products. Since then, illegal wares have disappeared from display shelves, but subsequent investigations by several environmental groups suggest that potions made from tigers, rhinos and other endangered species are still readily available. As recently as this February, an undercover probe sponsored by Earth Trust in four Taiwanese cities found that 13 of 21 pharmacies visited offered tiger-bone medicines...
...vicious attack touched off one of the most intensive murder investigations in French history. Conducted by Judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere, 50, a dogged investigator of terrorist activities, the probe followed a winding trail that led through Switzerland and Turkey to the highest levels of the Tehran government. The judge completed his work last month by turning over 18 volumes of documents to the Paris Appeals Court. This week judges will hear arguments from the prosecutor and defense attorneys, and must decide by April 7 whether to charge three key suspects in the case with "criminal conspiracy" and "complicity." If convicted...