Word: probed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many miners have died because a mining company engineer was allowed to cut safety corners to save money? How many factory deaths could have been prevented? The precise numbers tend to come out only when the news media probe a disaster and temporarily revive old arguments about job safety...
Rich, though, has more things to consider than just his image. Hoping to return to the U.S., he reportedly tried without success recently to plea bargain with federal officials for a prison term of four to five years in exchange for a halt to the probe. The Justice Department turned down the deal. Now U.S. officials believe Rich may be preparing to abandon the U.S. forever. The globetrotting trader, who once lived in Madrid, is believed to have sought Spanish citizenship. But Spain might provide only temporary refuge. Eventually Rich may have to decide whether to face U.S. authorities...
...years the FBI has pursued Vesco, lately investigating his possible links with drug smuggling in the Caribbean, but no indictments have been sought. The probe once stalled when the FBI wanted to set up a sting operation to catch Bahamian officials taking bribes. The CIA station chief in the Bahamas and U.S. Ambassador Lev Dobriansky opposed the plan, and it was scuttled, for fear that any such investigation might jeopardize negotiations with Pindling's government over the continued use of a U.S. submarine-testing base there...
...radicalism born in the '60s. Information gleaned from the robbery and murder scenes led police to "safe houses" in Mount Vernon, N.Y., The Bronx and elsewhere, from which they carted away truckloads of evidence. With that material, plus leads provided by informants, police began a nationwide conspiracy probe that is still going...
...federal antiterrorist task force was already in place in New York City and quickly entered the case. Led by Kenneth Walton, No. 2 man in the New York FBI office, the task force eventually grew to number more than 200, as dozens of investigators were drawn into the probe from the New York and New Jersey state police, the New York City police and several Rockland County communities. The investigation has taken task force agents as far away as Mississippi, Texas and California. One continuing focus has been on finding six fugitives named in Brink's indictments. Last week...