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...tickets already sold to Olympic events. The asking price for a $200 seat at the opening and closing ceremonies, according to Los Angeles Ticket Agency Owner Larry Gold, had gone as high as $1,500 before the boycott. Now, says Gold, "the speculators won't be able to command the prices they wanted...
...death squads are not a monolith controlled by a diabolical handful. Some are composed of soldiers, while others are made up of "off-duty" policemen, sons of wealthy landowners or simply hired thugs. Though some of the military brass may sympathize with and tolerate the teams, a chain of command has never been proved. Last fall, peasant union leaders accused the directors of the intelligence departments of the treasury police, the national guard and the national police of being linked to the squads; after Washington pressed for their removal, Defense Minister Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova transferred them...
Nicolás Carranza, head of the treasury police, admits that some of the intelligence-gathering cells under his command evolved into hit squads, but he denies direct knowledge. National Police Director Colonel Carlos Reynaldo López Nuila insists that he knows nothing about the murders, but nonetheless, suspects are tortured and killed in police compounds. Even Defense Minister Vides Casanova is not untainted: from 1979 to 1983 he served as director of the national guard...
...minutes' walk from one another, either on Wall Street or in midtown Manhattan. They operate with the secrecy of KGB agents and the cold nerves of hired gunslingers. In a matter of hours they can build up a corporate empire or cause a company to vanish. Their services command huge fees, yet they are among the least known men in American business...
...nibbling your earlobe," begins a typical come-on. Reply: "Not so hard!" Men, sporting such nicknames as "Conan the Librarian" and "Loverboy," outnumber women about 4 to 1, and anyone signing on as "Karen the Nympho" will be besieged with requests to TALK. This is the command that allows two users to exchange intimacies in private. Couples who hit it off have traded phone numbers, photographs and, on at least five occasions, wedding bands. Tiresome swains can be cut off with a keystroke...