Word: probed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have not been substantiated. But the fact that serious allegations involving the Labor Secretary were buried in FBI files during two investigations is disturbing. Webster has launched an internal inquiry into why the reports were tucked away for more than a year. According to a memo by Webster, the probe has so far disclosed only a bureaucratic runaround: "The failure to disseminate this information was due in part to a belief on the part of the Newark division that the information had been furnished to the special section at FBI headquarters . . . Bureau managers of the special-inquiry section have advised...
...have given the CIA broad authority to spy on U.S. citizens at home when they were linked to "significant foreign intelligence" operations. Inman did not publicly object to this domestic CIA role, but he did oppose giving the CIA a free hand in the types of activities it could probe and the methods it could use. Largely because of his efforts, the order was tightened to put clearer limits on what the CIA could do at home...
...virtue shared by leading papers of all sizes is stern pursuit of wrongdoers, aided by Florida's open-government laws. A Miami Herald probe of drug smuggling in the Florida Keys last year resulted in the resignation of a state attorney. The Fort Myers News-Press disclosed that a $1 million road plan benefited only the would-be developer of a housing tract; the road project was canceled. In an unusual joint venture, the Herald, St. Petersburg Times and Orlando Sentinel Star are spending $75,000 to computerize records of every contribution of $50 or more to candidates...
...weighs heavily on many correspondents. Shirley Christian of the Miami Herald, who won a Pulitzer Prize last year for her coverage of Latin America, has become even more influential among her peers since she published an article in the Washington Journalism Review detailing the failure of leading newspapers to probe the nature of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua until too late. Says Christian of the journalist's responsibility in El Salvador: "People here will be left with the solution partly or wholly created by us-not just the American Government but the American press. Then we will all leave when...
...million of its January rate increase immediately. Last week Governor Brown asked the commission for a further reduction and ordered an investigation into PG&E's construction-cost overruns, including its ill-fated Diablo Canyon nuclear facility, whose completion has been delayed by a Nuclear Regulatory Commission probe into its design and safety...