The junta was not satisfied with the police investigation and arrests and planned to launch a parallel inquiry.

"We have a parallel inquiry," Summer said.

The commission found that the ISI conducted a parallel inquiry into the killing, gathering evidence and detaining suspects.

The findings are also important because they begin to tie together two parallel inquiries into the Pan Am bombing by Western officials.

The Ukrainian Parliament set up a parallel inquiry run by a special commission.

Mr. Burton insists that he will uncover more wrongdoing by the Democrats than the parallel inquiry in the Senate.

A parallel inquiry is under way by the Manhattan district attorney, Robert M. Morgenthau, whose office prosecuted the teenagers in 1990.

A parallel inquiry by the United States Attorney's office in Manhattan is under way.

The United States attorney for Northern California has said that he is conducting a parallel inquiry.

A parallel judicial inquiry has opened in Germany.