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...RUBY RIDGE PROBE...
...dalliances. He then petitioned a federal court to protect his right to privacy. That ploy took almost a year to resolve, going all the way to the Supreme Court, where Packwood's bid was rebuffed. By the time he turned over his diaries, the committee had again widened its probe, looking into charges that Packwood tampered with evidence and used his position to seek work for his ex-wife in order to pare his alimony payments...
More than two years after the suicide death of White House aide Vincent Foster, Sen. Alphonse D'Amato, chairman of the House Banking Committee investigating the Whitewater affair, said today he will probe explosive allegations concerning how and where Foster died. On Wednesday, FBI agents once again searched the Ft. Marcy park area where Foster's body was found by park rangers, looking again for the bullet that killed him. D'Amato told CBS Radio that he will subpoena a White House employee who told friends in Arkansas that Foster shot himself in his car, on the White House grounds...
...congressman's troubles aren't over yet. Although House Speaker Newt Gingrich said today he would not push for Reynolds' resignation, Reynolds still faces investigation by the House ethics commission, which could recommend expulsion. Reynolds also faces a federal probe into allegations that he diverted campaign funds toward personal...
...down, and even for the "shallows" a few hundred feet deep. For while the push to reach the very bottom of the sea has fired the imagination of some of the world's most daring explorers, it is just the most visible part of a broad international effort to probe the oceans' depths. It's a high-sea adventure fraught with danger, and--because of the expense--with controversy as well...