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...Watergate prosecutor, told the jurors: "Keep in mind the only thing that was ever done was to take the fat Arab's money." The defense lawyers insist that their clients were innocent dupes of Weinberg. They claim that he set up the meetings between their clients and the bogus Arabs, coached the defendants on what to say and assured them that they would never have to deliver on their promises. Declared Ben-Veniste: "This man is ABSCAM...
...Ellen, whom J.R. was about to commit to a sanitarium; Kristin Shepard (Mary Crosby), Sue Ellen's vixen sister, who had bedded and then blackmailed J.R. only to be charged with prostitution; Alan Beam (Randolph Powell), an unscrupulous lawyer whom J.R. used and then threatened with a bogus rape indictment; Vaughn Leland (Dennis Patrick), J.R.'s banker, who was ruined when he bought into a Ewing double-deal; Bobby Ewing, whom J.R.'s dastardly business ethics finally drove from Southfork; and Cliff Barnes, who swore on his daddy's grave that he would avenge the family...
...York on charges of bribery and conspiracy. Brilab (for bribery labor) resulted in a New Orleans grand jury naming Mafia Kingfish Carlos ("Little Man") Marcello on counts of racketeering, conspiracy and fraud. So far, Abscam has led to indictments of five Congressmen, all accused of accepting bribes from bogus Arab businessmen. The first three: Democrats Michael Myers and Raymond Lederer of Pennsylvania, and John Jenrette of South Carolina...
...mark his birthday last year, friends roasted Allen Harold Neuharth, 56, with a bogus interview printed under the logo of the Cocoa (Fla.) Today, a newspaper he helped launch in 1966. "We're pushing for a Pulitzer this year," the fictive Neuharth remarks at one point. In what category? "Profit. Er, make that 'progress...
Naipaul looks out over the fertile pampas and sees degeneration and illusion. Even Argentina's most famous citizen, Jorge Luis Borges, "a great writer, a sweet and melancholy poet," is seen as clinging to a bogus past of noble battles fought for the establishment of the fatherland. Meanwhile, the sons and daughters of settlers from England and the Continent live behind the façade of European culture and are slowly brutalized...