Word: counterfeit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie sets itself a lot of tough marks, especially since the film makers, anticipating sticky negotiations, did not try for the rights to any Presley vocals. However, the singing by Ronnie McDowell is gilt-edge counterfeit, Elvis' sound carefully shaped and reduplicated by Felton Jarvis, Presley's own producer at RCA. There is also a starring performance that is quite literally phenomenal. Kurt Russell, a former minor-league baseball player who has done most of his acting on TV and in obscure Disney features, does not attempt an Elvis impersonation, although he moves with gymnastic ease...
...slightly higher level of technology, Colombia drug traffickers have started to manufacture and smuggle other drugs, most notably a counterfeit line of Quaaludes, a prescription brand of the sedative methaqualone. At least five presses for making the white pills have been smuggled into Colombia recently. For 100 apiece, they churn out tablets of methaqualone that are being popped at 35 times that price in the U.S. Last month, during a raid on a marijuana warehouse on the Guajira peninsula, soldiers found a million fake Quaaludes...
...believed to have posed as a gambler in the Bahamas, dropping federal money at the roulette wheels of Paradise Island. He liked to wear Cardin suits and Dior shirts. Acting under cover, he became the lover of the mistress of a French heroin ring boss, cracking a drug and counterfeit network extending from France to the U.S. and Canada. Working with New York City's Knapp Commission looking into police corruption, he helped convict an assistant district attorney of bribery. He was brought in from the cold in 1975 to become head of the DEA enforcement section in Mexico...
When Newton emerged from prison in 1970, he found the Panthers divided into rival factions. One reason was that the FBI had begun a campaign of dirty tricks-counterfeit Panther documents, fake denunciations of various Panthers as police informants-in an effort to disrupt what the agency's Washington intelligence chief called "the most violence prone of all the extremist groups...
...tiny provincial Russian town, whose name, Anton Antonovich Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky, is almost larger than his constituency, has been tipped off that a government agent of high rank is coming, incognito, to inspect local fiscal affairs. Since the mayor (The odore Bikel) and his appointed underlings are as crooked as counterfeit rubles, they are understandably panicky...