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...investigative commission, headed by Andreas Dormer, the Dutch chief justice of the European Court, ran into a roadblock in attempts to probe the prince's financial transactions. Swiss authorities, who fiercely resist disclosure of bank records, warned that Donner would face arrest for "economic espionage" if he dared set foot on Swiss soil in his investigative capacity. Later, under Dutch pressure, the Swiss Cabinet scheduled a special meeting to decide what assistance, if any, to give the Donner commission...
...keep secrets rather than how to preserve freedom," said Idaho Democrat Frank Church, the disheartened chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Though exaggerated, Church's complaint reflected the growing gloom in Congress over the Senate and House investigations of the CIA, FBI and other U.S. undercover agencies. The probe has been discredited by the inability of many Congressmen and their staffers to keep a secret. Result: there is as much worry over leaks as there is over the abuses that were leaked...
...right. President Ford last week expressed "deep concern about the payoff revelations" and ordered a review, possibly by a Cabinet-level committee, of bribery and other improper activities by U.S. companies overseas. Secretary of Commerce Elliot Richardson let it be known he would be happy to head the probe...
...Although he was a member of a Senate subcommittee that was to monitor CIA activities, Democratic Senator Henry Jackson of Washington advised the agency in 1973 on how to handle another Senate subcommittee's probe of CIA ties in Chile with ITT Corp. Jackson retorted that he was asked only for procedural advice...
...probe involved police tolerance of flagrant offenses in Cincinnati's taverns. One of them was the Clock Bar, a joint that offered free meals and booze to cops who overlooked the flourishing trade in hard drugs carried on there (one report said 646 bags of heroin were seized there in an eight-month period last year). Yet the Clock kept ticking; it did not close until a plainclothesman was shot to death near by last summer...