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...shirts and sweatshirts. "They're contemptible, with no morals whatsoever," declared Jay Cooper, USA for Africa's principal lawyer. "They're taking money from the people of Africa." Last week a federal judge in Los Angeles issued an order forcing several Southern California store owners to stop selling the bogus merchandise...
...around the trade restrictions, the Soviets have relied on espionage. Through bribery and theft, clandestine armies of agents have obtained thousands of classified documents giving technical specifications for Western computers. Whenever possible, the Soviets have gone after the machines themselves. A favorite Soviet tactic is to set up bogus companies in Western Europe to buy computers and then smuggle them to Moscow. In recent years, the U.S. Government has seized several powerful machines that were being illegally shipped to the Soviet Union, including Digital Equipment's VAX and PDP 11/44 minicomputers...
...taxes went unpaid on 125 sales over three years. Warnock and Foster allegedly allowed some customers, who will not be prosecuted, to supply false non-New York shipping addresses (out-of-state buyers are exempt from sales taxes). Investigators charge that Cartier sent empty boxes to the bogus addresses, but the jewels left the store in the customers' pockets. Similar tax scams could be depriving New York State and local governments of more than $100 million in tax revenue annually; several retailers are still under investigation. Said New York City Mayor Ed Koch: "Tax evaders be warned. This is only...
Occasionally, though, this emotional barrage can be tiresome. Radford gives us endless scenes of Winston standing on a lusciously green hillside, symbolizing his longing for an ideal world. This repetition seems out of character with the action pace of the film: more at home with the bogus psychological exploitation of Pink Floyd's The Wall than Orwell. Especially pretentious is the final shot of this sequence, where we learn that this mythical "Green Acres" lies in Rm, 101, the room of everyone's worst fear. Mixing symbols like this might work for a Bergman, but it has failed almost everybody...
Posing as clerks at a bogus Oceanside, Calif., store called Golden State Surplus, authorities bought pilfered flak jackets, combat knives, .45-cal. magazines and sleeping bags from Camp Pendleton Marines for 10% to 20% of their cost. "Marines were quite literally breaking down the door trying to sell us gear," said FBI Agent John Kelso. Among the purloined goods were 9,400 blank military ID cards, which could have been used for access to mili tary bases. Most of the gear was never reported missing. Some inventories even showed an over stock, indicating that higher-ups may at least have...