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...months, editors at Business Week have been secretly looking for snoops: people who were apparently sneaking an early peek at the magazine's "Inside Wall Street" column in order to make a quick profit by buying stocks mentioned favorably before regular readers could do so. Last week the probe, which has been joined by Government investigators and stockbrokerage officials, finally turned up several suspects...
...results of the investigation infuriated Benveniste. He compared the probe to "Salem witch hunts and McCarthy-like prosecutions." Said he: "It may be that all of us are wrong in good faith. This is no crime but science as usual, and only the future knows." Maddox stuck by his final assessment, as well as by his earlier decisions to publish Benveniste's work and send the investigating team to Paris. But he added, "I'm sorry we didn't find something more interesting...
...Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci has decided to turn some of the suspected culprits loose. Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee last week, Carlucci said he would resume payments, which he suspended only three weeks ago, to nine Pentagon contractors that are under investigation in the Government's sweeping probe into charges of bribery and bid-rigging in the defense business. "My job is not to punish companies," he said. "My job is to protect the national security...
...aside from facile parallels that Huffington draws between Picasso's treatment of his current lover and that woman's appearance in his work, there is no effort made to probe the source of Picasso's artistic wellspring. The biographer has taken Andy Warhol's dictum that everyone will be famous for 15 minutes too seriously, and, angered by Picasso's constant fame, she has tried to steal a few precious moments in the spotlight for herself at the artist's expense...
...also expected to refer this list of lapses to the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility, which may then launch an investigation of its own. Some Justice officials suggested that Meese's abrupt resignation was designed to pre-empt or at least blunt such an embarrassing in-house probe. But the Justice Department inquiry can go ahead even after Meese's departure...