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...back of his brown-and-tan Ford pickup are 1,042 lbs. of live rattlesnakes. Behind him sit ten more trucks, also filled with live rattlesnakes. The snakes, venomous Western diamondbacks, are reluctant participants in what has become a rite of spring in rural Texas: the rattlesnake roundup...
...front war, President Franklin D. Roosevelt decided not to bother with a meeting on the subject and simply said yes in a phone call to his Secretary of War, adding the bland advice, "Be as reasonable as you can." Signed a week later, the order led to the roundup and internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans for the duration of World War II, an action that Hawaii Senator Spark Matsunaga calls the "one great blot on the Constitution." Last week the nation moved a step closer to expunging that stain. The Senate voted to give an apology...
...Texas sweep cuts a wide swath. Earlier this month, in a roundup of 80 motorists, San Antonio police nabbed George Cisneros, a brother of Mayor Henry Cisneros. They took him downtown to cough up the $62.50 he failed to pay for running a red light last November. Said the mayor: "I think his number came up on a computer. I hope he pays his tickets from now on, my dear brother...
Italian Fugitive Emanuele Adamita embraced the undercover federal agent and told him he was "family." The agent kissed Adamita on the lips and told him, "You're under arrest." That dramatic bust in a Manhattan motel last week was part of a roundup of more than 100 people suspected of belonging to a Sicilian Mafia heroin and cocaine ring. Dozens of other suspects face charges in locales extending from Cleveland to Puerto Rico, as part of the biggest drug case ever developed by the U.S. and Italy...
...news. In a major raid in a suburb of Manila, soldiers rounded up five top Communist insurgents, including Romulo ("Rolly") Kintanar, the commander of the 25,000-member New People's Army, and Rafael Baylosis, the No. 2 man in the party. The arrests amounted to the single largest roundup of Communist rebels since Aquino came to power in 1986, and could create a crippling power vacuum within the N.P.A. -- at least for a while...