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...Harvard Medical School will soon be a target of a federal probe to determine whether the school has unfairly billed the government for overhead costs on research grants, The Crimson learned from federal investigators yesterday...
...investigative team has not yet informed the University of its intended inquiry, said another investigator who also asked to remain anonymous. He added that the subcommittee will likely inform Harvard in March, shortly before the probe begins...
Asked about the investigation, Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 said the University had not been officially informed of the probe...
During the probe at Stanford launched by the subcommittee in October, investigators found that the university had been allotting hundreds of thousands of dollars of indirect cost funds to cover the depreciation on a 72-foot yacht, floral arrangements at the home of President Donald Kennedy '52, and the refurbishment of a grand piano at the President's home, according to a report published last month by The Boston Globe...
...That probe is expected to culminate early this year in Greece with the murder trial, stemming from the 1982 Pan Am bombing, of the May 15 Organization's top operative, a slim, dedicated young Palestinian named Mohammed Rashid. Although the U.S. wished to extradite and prosecute him, Athens will try Rashid under the 1971 Montreal Convention, which permits those charged with attacks on airliners to stand trial in the country holding them. Through dozens of interviews with current or former U.S. officials and other sources, TIME reconstructed the steps by which Rashid was uncovered as one of the Middle East...