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...letter, the senators argue that there is sufficient evidence of possible conflict of interest to warrant a probe by a special prosecutor, said Peter F. Smith, Biden's press secretary...
...Fred Fielding, the departing White House counsel, about a job with Deaver's firm. At the time, Fielding's office happened to be conducting an inquiry into possible conflict-of-interest violations by Deaver. Fielding was not interested in the job feeler, but he quickly withdrew from the probe...
...OSHA's probe resulted in 221 charges of safety violations against the company. Carbide President Robert Kennedy, who said the fine would be appealed, contended that most of OSHA's accusations were "entirely unjustified" and that no infractions were "willful...
...against the alleged assassins. Says Marini: "This trial had to take place." The legal proceedings, moreover, are not entirely finished. A Roman court has begun a new formal inquiry into the presumed plot and assigned a trio of senior investigators to handle it. In the Netherlands, officials continue to probe the background of a Turk who, on the final day of a 1985 papal visit, tried to enter the country with fake identity papers and a Browning that police say came from the same lot as Agca...
Still, Nicaragua is an important testing ground in the rivalry of East and West. The Soviets have long made it their business to probe the Third World, seeking to add satellites to their orbit. Under the so-called Reagan Doctrine, the Administration has decreed that the U.S. can no longer afford to watch passively as the Soviets consolidate their power. Through the use of surrogates and guerrilla movements, long a Soviet tactic, the Reagan Administration seeks to roll back Communism, or at least make Soviet expansionism more costly...