Word: probe
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...current novels are attracting not only critical attention but also big sales (big enough, in one case, to make a bestseller list). All are written by authors who have departed from the clergy or the Christian faith, whether with fondness or fury. Unlike the dropout novelists who used to probe spiritual angst, these religious refugees concoct unholy plots that scarcely show church and clergy at their best. Witness the story line of each...
...Beit Jala incident gained national attention in Israel when it was reported by TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff, who was the first journalist to investigate the episode. A spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces, citing a "thorough" probe of the matter, heatedly maintained that there was "no truth whatsoever" in TIME's account. Israelis accepted that explanation. The Tel Aviv daily Ma'ariv implied, falsely, that Neff had never visited Beit Jala...
...Weizman diligently pressed his own probe. It both confirmed Neff's report and showed that the officers concerned had tried to cover the incident up. The Israeli press reacted to Weizman's conclusions with shock-and approval...
Kelley's headache became acute when House hearings on FBI practices compelled him to open a probe into the corruption of an agency once thought incorruptible. It turned out that FBI administrators had sanctioned big markups in the price of bugging equipment bought by the bureau from a favored contractor, Joseph Tait. Mohr, Callahan, Adams and as many as a dozen other FBI officials regularly played poker with Tait at the Blue Ridge Club near Harpers Ferry...
...Adams was ordered by the Justice Department to give top priority to investigations of racketeering in the Teamsters Union. But agents soon discovered that two targets, Teamster Boss Frank Fitzsimmons and a powerful Ohio Teamster leader, were insulated from the probe by their "informant's relationship" with high FBI officials. The agents say that the Ohio Teamster leader manipulated the investigation by putting the bureau on the trail of his union enemies, small fry who were not essential to the case. Many agents question the value of using union chiefs as informants, insisting that they gain immunity from investigation...