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Marine Staff Sergeant Michael Robinson, 26, works as a career planner at El Toro Marine Base near Santa Ana, Calif., charged with persuading first-term Marines to reenlist. Now, ironically, Robinson himself is leaving the service after eight years, passing up a $10,000 re-enlistment bonus, to manage apartment houses. Says Robinson: "I like the corps but I can't get by with the low pay and the diminishing benefits...
...Uninterested in going into his father's soda-fountain equipment business and intrigued by the "tough traditions" of the Marines, he had signed up fresh out of his suburban Detroit high school. He served first as a base electrician at Camp Lejeune, N.C., then was transferred to El Toro in 1973 to work on fighter planes - F-4s, A6s, Harriers. He switched to his present assignment...
...McDuffie died, investigators began picking apart the official version of what had happened. A departmental inquiry led to eight Dade County policemen being dismissed. Five went on trial on charges ranging from second-degree murder to tampering with evidence. They were Alex Marrero, Ira Diggs, Michael Watts, Eddie Del Toro and Herbert Evans...
...Jorge Toro...
...plane owned by the state government; the digging finally focused on the pilot and an associate. The Mexican information agency announced last spring that 900 investigations into public corruption had begun. So far none of those investigations has produced even an indictment, much less a conviction. Charges Hero Rodriguez Toro, editor of the weekly newsmagazine Proceso: "We have a curious method of punishing the offense, a method which operates in frank favor of the delinquent. When a large-scale offender is apprehended and charged, it is demanded that he return the stolen money. Once this is done, the delinquent suddenly...