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...drug traffickers, illegal aliens and others seeking a sure if shadowy passage abroad. A 1976 Justice Department report estimated that 80% of all hard drugs flowing into the U.S. were smuggled in with the aid of fraudulent passports. Today as many as 300,000 fugitives and terrorists use bogus identity papers, including U.S. passports and visas, to travel freely around the world. Says one DEA agent: "I can't think of a major investigation involving hashish, heroin, cocaine or marijuana smuggling in the past five years that hasn't involved passport fraud or false drivers' licenses...
Soviet declaratory doctrine, by contrast, is an auxiliary to propaganda and diplomacy. The words serve to disguise and even deny actual military capabilities. Instead of trying to frighten their enemies into restraint, the Soviets are trying to enhance their bogus claim of championing disarmament and advance their campaign to divide NATO...
...flays him, but under the vulnerable Midwestern skin is a species of American hero. In his best comedy, The Lady Eve (1941), Fonda is the perfect patsy for a con woman, Barbara Stanwyck?so perfect that she falls in love with the sap. Watching Fonda writhe under Stanwyck's bogus endearments remains one of the high delights of screwball farce...
...precisely what this twisted baseball season needed. Just when fans thought the game would never be the same, when the bogus second-season pennant races were making a mockery of won-lost records, when the strike-broken season had robbed every asterisked statistic of meaning, New York Yankee Principal Owner George Steinbrenner returned the national pastime to normal: he fired his manager. Steinbrenner changes managers about as often as most fans change underwear, though he does it with more anguish and bigger headlines. The latest victim was Gene Michael, the eighth Yankee manager in as many years to succumb...
...success. "Several (pro-creationist) bills were declared un- constitutional in the mid-seventies, so the creationists had to change their tactics. They're still what they always were--namely, pushing fundamentalist Christianity--but they realize the courts won't let them do that anymore. So now thay have this bogus argument: they say it has nothing to do with religion, that creationism isn't Christian, that it'a just a scientific alternative...