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...world* and, De Gaulle implied, for the task of constitutional reform that would make a strong executive a permanent feature of French life. As for the "last bloody clouds" caused by the terrorism of the Secret Army Organization, they would soon disappear, together with the S.A.O. strategy of "assassination, theft and blackmail." Frenchmen, sickened by the seven-year war in Algeria and by the S.A.O.'s senseless brutality, could only hope that De Gaulle was right-even though the "bloody clouds" appeared to last longer than many political weather forecasters had predicted. If the battle was already lost...
...crashing down with a thud that reverberated all the way to Washington. On March 29, the FBI arrested Estes on charges of transporting the bogus mortgages across state lines. Estes is now out on bail, but is under both a federal indictment for fraud and a state indictment for theft...
...Billie Sol, as it turned out. had a couple of bad habits, too-and one evening last March, FBI agents came to his house and arrested him. Last week he was free on bail, but his empire had collapsed, and he was under indictment on charges of fraud and theft. West Texas was swarming with investigators trying to untangle a web of deceit, fraud and corruption that stretched the 1,500 taut miles to Washington. One major discovery about Billie Sol was that the guesses about the size of his fortune had been fantastically inaccurate; far from being worth...
...There on the back seat, wrapped in newspapers, were eight rolled-up canvases by Cézanne that had been taken from an exhibition in Aix-en-Provence last August. Valued at $2,000,000, the Cézannes were the loot in the most daring art theft since the Mono, Lisa disappeared from the Louvre 50 years...
There is no crime. Theft would be pointless in this cooperative little commonwealth. It is vegetarian by principle (though fish are unofficially counted as vegetables). For the dissatisfied, of course, there are always those tasty hallucinogenic toadstools...