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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Unuigboje Okoruwa, 24. Later Kennedy confessed the attempted robbery but insisted that his pistol had gone off accidentally when it bumped against Okoruwa's headrest. His claim, supported by FBI experts who examined his weapon, saved him from life without parole. Kennedy, 21, pleaded guilty in exchange for life plus 20 years, allowing him to become eligible for parole when he is about 46 years old. Despite the slogans, getting tough on crime is not so easy...
...shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?" inquires the psalmist. With reverence, replies Mordecai Richler. Plus a few gags ("What's black and white and brown and looks good on a lawyer?" "A Doberman"); a couple of philosophical digressions ("Liquor, once you're hooked on it, is a hard habit to break. Like God, Henry thought . . ."); some manic riffs on fame ("That dumbbell the Duke of Windsor he threw in the sponge for a tart. You want the Duke and Duchess for a charity ball, you rent them like a tux from...
Ephraim Gursky begins it all in the 19th century. The fugitive from Minsk becomes the thief of London and the prisoner of Newgate. Deported, he turns into the con man of the Klondike. This ultimate survivor begets 27 unacknowledged offspring, plus Aaron, who begets the predatory Bernard and the doomed and mysterious Solomon. The brothers beget a liquor business that makes them the intimates of gangsters during Prohibition and the cynosure of politicians ever after. Their descendants become various refractions of the founder: vulgar, sensitive, avaricious, undirected, lost...
...believes former top officers of the Panama Defense Forces sold Panamanian immigration documents to refugees from both China and Cuba in a scam that netted them more than $300 million since 1985. These U.S.-bound refugees paid as much as $10,000 for a tourist visa, plus an additional $10,000 to $15,000 for a Panamanian passport. Among the implicated schemers is Noriega's cousin Ciro Noriega Quintero, the former Panamanian consul general to Hong Kong. "Manuel Noriega was the king of alien smuggling," says Robert Penland, who retired last month as the INS's assistant commissioner for antismuggling...
...proofs of citizenship, some of which, baptismal certificates for example, have thousands of acceptable variations. This has produced a cottage industry in bogus documents. The INS, which estimates that more than 500,000 aliens have used fake papers, is now confiscating more than 10,000 such documents annually (plus 5,000 smuggler-owned cars) just at the main San Diego border crossing. Illegals without fake documents often work instead at newly proliferating sweatshops. A recent Government study estimates that as many as 7,000 sweatshops operate in New York City and Los Angeles alone. "Before IRCA, at least...