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Just Collectors. Also in custody were 19 Minutemen, charged with such offenses as conspiracy to commit arson, illegal possession of weapons, incitement to riot and unlawful assembly. At their arraignment, attorneys suggested that the suspects were really no more than innocent "gun collectors." But the district attorney's men said they knew better. Agents from B.O.S.S., New York City's Bureau of Special Services, had infiltrated the organization and clocked the Minutemen's every move for nearly a year. They reported that the would-be guerrillas had crashed the weekend maneuvers of reserve military units to gain...
...avoid high credit rates, Bergesen has financed the construction of ever bigger ships largely from his own fortune. Many shipowners, needing vast amounts of outside capital for new construction, are forced to commit their unbuilt ships to charter in advance, often at poor rates. Unlike them, Bergesen has flexibility, as he puts it, "to build the right ships at the right time, then fix the right charter contracts." Altogether, his wholly self-owned company earned $13.5 million after taxes last year...
...been accused of murder last June. Powell also passed-whereupon his accuser confessed the crime. The day after Powell's release, the prosecutor tested Donald G. Carter, 19, who had spent three months in jail awaiting trial for a burglary that he insisted he did not commit. Carter also passed; the police rechecked his story and belatedly discovered that he was telling them the truth from the start: he was in state prison on another charge at the time of the burglary...
...Gallic authors follow the criminal careers of the separate members of the subdivided victim, grafted as they are onto blameless citizens. As for the anomalous occurrences in the bedroom, no mind need boggle. The upshot of this gruesome farce is that the head of the condemned criminal contrives to commit several posthumous murders...
...grasp. The Americans from their hilltop positions control all the major corridors to the south. The North Vietnamese, says one high-ranking Marine officer, are "no better at running these damned hills than we are, and they don't know the country any better. Once they commit themselves en masse down one of these draws, we can bomb them and shell them night...