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ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAM BARR FINDS HIMSELF presiding over a Department of Justice beset from every quarter. Dragged early in the week into a probe of its own FBI director for ethics violations, Barr's Justice Department must now endure the attentions of an "independent counsel," drafted by Barr to investigate the roiling dispute between his department and the CIA over whether the government obstructed the investigation of an illegal scheme to funnel $4 billion to the Iraqi regime before the invasion of Kuwait...
...served in the French Resistance in World War II and survived Dachau. A physicist at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, near Geneva since 1959, he was honored for his 1968 work in particle physics and invention of the "multiwire proportional chamber," a tool physicists use to probe the nature of matter. Charpak will use the award for research...
...Harvard Law Review's board of trustees will appoint an investigator to probe charges of racism, sexism and abuse of power leveled against the Review's president...
Holland's worst air crash triggers a probe...
...furious swirl of rumors, State Department staffers suspected that someone may have tampered with Clinton's passport records. They informed the FBI, which launched a hurried investigation of the file. Meanwhile, a Bush Administration official leaked word of the investigation to the press. The FBI investigators, however, ended the probe without finding anything amiss...