Word: probed
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...Justice Department is turning out to be curiously incomplete. Indeed, the Justice Department last week opened a new investigation into old charges that Donovan was present when officers of the New Jersey construction company that he partly owned allegedly paid a bribe to a union leader. The new probe, launched by Attorney General William French Smith at the urging of Brooklyn Prosecutor Thomas P. Puccio, is the first step required under the 1978 Ethics in Government Act to determine whether the Justice Department must appoint a special prosecutor to examine the evidence against Donovan...
Based on interviews with 36 people in Japan and the U.S., the FBI probe of the $1,000 honorarium showed that "there is no evidence that the money was intended for Allen or was kept by Allen for a corrupt purpose." According to the Justice Department's summary of the investigation, Chizuko Takase, wife of a longtime business associate of Allen's, asked his help on the magazine interview with Mrs. Reagan. Allen passed on the request to the Reagan transition officials in charge of scheduling, recommending that the interview be granted if the First Lady...
...even if Allen is completely cleared of these charges, there is still no guarantee that he will resume his old job: The White House recently announced that, in addition to the Justice Department probe, Allen must pass a new test by the presidential counselor's office to see if White House "regulations" were broken. And there have been reports that Nancy Reagan, chief of staff James A. Baker and his deputy Michael K. Deaver have urged the President to fire Allen for exercising bad judgment, regardless of the question of law violation. One must remember that Allen...
...probe to Halley's comet? No solar polar mission? No Venus probe, no Galileo project for Jupiter, no deep-space network? Will future generations look back to say, "The 20th century? Oh, that was when they smoked pot and built atom bombs." Or will they say, "The 20th century? That's when they opened up the universe...
...government's probe of Sadat's assassination continued to unearth new details about Egypt's shadowy underground terrorist network. Nearly a month before the murder, agents had uncovered a plot to kill Sadat in the Nile delta town of Mansura. Sadat had actually been shown video and sound recordings of armed members of Islamic extremist groups who were plotting his assassination, but gave the matter little thought. Mubarak himself added more details about the conspiracy against Sadat. The objective of the killers, he said, was to "physically liquidate" all of Egypt's top military, religious...