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When an airline accident occurs, almost anywhere in the world, air-safety teams rush to the scene to begin a painstaking effort to establish the cause-and, where possible, to find ways of reducing the chances of similar tragedies. The probe of last week's collision of two 747 jumbo jets on a foggy runway in the Canary Islands may continue for months, as investigators question witnesses and survivors and study the tapes from the flight recorders that were on board both planes. In our cover stories this week we set ourselves a broader task: not only to piece...
...status in the U.S., gets to do some nice psychopathic bits. Shaw has some weary and aging hunter routines on which to flex his thespian muscles. But the early action sequences have the feel of finger exercises, warm-ups for the big one to come, while the attempts to probe the psychology of the drama's leading figures are totally without surprise or subtlety...
...expected to approve a bill outlawing the practice of investing proceeds from the rackets in legitimate businesses. Public pressure is mounting on the state regulatory agencies to crack down on fraudulent land schemes. A task force of FBI agents, postal fraud inspectors and SEC investigators has begun to probe. Says Babbitt: "Right now we are about two years into what I think is a minimum five-year...
Meanwhile, HEW's chief investigator, John J. Walsh, resigned from the department because he thought Califano was trying to slow down Walsh's investigation of Medicare fraud in California, particularly his probe of Flora Souza, president of Home Health, Inc. in San Jose...
...matter, Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus announced that an eleven-day probe of allegations that companies were hoarding gas on fields leased from the Government had raised enough questions to warrant a full-scale investigation of the industry's production practices. The study found that output in four of the five fields examined was 36% below the maximum production rate, and that many readily drillable gas reservoirs remained untapped. If the investigation uncovers evidence of illegality-for example, deliberate falsification of records of reserves-the case could be turned over to the Justice Department for possible action...