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...source, for he knew better than most what was going on in the splintered organization. He lived in constant fear of being arrested and never slept well. Although he operated openly, he did take some minor precautions, such as keeping underground literature in a bag hanging outside his bedroom window. Eventually he found it necessary to seek the protection of some of the brawnier steelworkers to whom he had ministered...
...South Florida, the center of the American drug trade, depositors have been known to walk up to a teller's window with a few dollars less than $10,000 in cash. Couriers known as "Smurfs," referring to the cartoon characters, flit from bank to bank buying cashier's checks and money orders for just under the reporting limit. One of the most popular ways to launder money in Florida now is to buy real estate. An estimated $2.5 billion worth of property in that area is believed to have been bought with drug profits...
...rankings are concerned, Minuteman Coach Kalekeni Banda said "you can take them and throw them out the window--it's the rankings you make for yourself that are important...
Whatever happens on Tuesday and however either man acts to consolidate his power, the time for dramatic action is limited. At the White House, some aides calculate that Reagan has "a window of opportunity" of about eight months in which to move on the deficit, arms-control talks with the Soviets, the spreading problems in farming and health-care costs. Those are the big four crises that will demand action from either Reagan or Mondale...
...directed The 400 Blows, brought the new wave of film makers to its crest and became a budding auteur. With fellow New Wavers Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais, Truffaut yanked film into the modernist age. No longer would the screen serve merely as a window through which the spectator sees "real people." Now it could show anything, in any and all fashions. Time could be stretched or collapsed, as in Jules et Jim; the narrative could be interrupted for capricious movie references, as in Shoot the Piano Player; the film could jettison the neat happy ending for a character...