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...concentrated on developing civil cases that could lead to refunds, a practice that has brought it under criticism for laxity in policing the industry. Last week a House Commerce Subcommittee heard testimony from Customs and Florida officials about three purported attempts by FEA to stop the Jacksonville grand jury probe so that FEA could pursue a civil case. T. Edward Austin, a state prosecutor in Jacksonville, testified that as recently as last month he had felt that the FEA was trying to "pull me back" from pursuing the grand jury investigation. FEA officials denied these accusations, and General Counsel Robert...
...Wall Street Journal, which had learned the results of the SEC probe, extracted from United Brands a public admission that last year it had paid a $1.25 million bribe to a high official in Honduras-and speculation immediately centered on none other than the chief of state of the country, Oswaldo Lopez Arellano. The bribe was offered in order to win a reduction in a 500 export tax on every 40-lb. box of the bananas that United Brands grows in Honduras and sells in the U.S., mostly under the "Chiquita" trademark. The company's statement said that Black...
...three sent a letter to deans and administrators that prompted an in-house investigation by Hall and new Police Chief David M. Gorski, and, after protests from University Hall, a faculty review. The faculty probe of the patrol moved into its second week this week...
...treatment. Kennedy also must go on serving as surrogate father to Ethel Kennedy's eleven children. Above all, if Teddy were a candidate, the many unanswered questions about Chappaquiddick would be reopened. But if he were nominated at the last minute, there would be much less time to probe them thoroughly than if he were running hard...
...great flying reptiles lived near the shore, leading paleontologists to conclude that they fed on fish. But Lawson's fossils were found in nonmarine sediments far from any seas. In fact, Lawson writes in Science, the pterosaurs may well have been carrion eaters, using their long necks to probe the carcasses of dead dinosaurs...