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...Most important to investors, the Government in 1970 set up the Securities Investor Protection Corp. to pay off customers of brokers who go bust. S.I.P.C., which insures investments up to $50,000, already has paid out $9.8 million to investors who otherwise would have lost their money...
...YORK -- Brad Higgins president of Colurabia's class of 1974, is bringing school spirit back to the university that in 1968 gave us the first student strike, the first bloody bust and the worst college football team in the country...
Nineteen sixty eight--sixty nine was a year of general turmoil throughout the University. The strike at Columbia University the previous cup many people here. The subsequent bust at University Hall in April 1969 forced such mundane projects as Gund Hall into monetary limbo...
...time, an agent may be working on a dozen cases spread out over several countries. U.S. agents, with budgets that are the envy of their foreign counterparts, depend heavily on informants. Such sources, who have led the way to major busts, have been paid as much as $30,000-well over the average agent's annual salary. The overseas agent is usually careful to pass his information over to local authorities, and let them make the bust. Abroad, agents must not only be resourceful undercover operators but also diplomats, especially in countries sensitive to U.S. meddling in internal affairs...
...always nervous when it begins," says Panella. "You never get used to those first few minutes-you know, with the guns and all that." The closest call he has ever had was in Beirut, when he arranged the bust of a small-time dealer. "We got to the building where I was going to pick up the stuff. The police were supposed to stay at the top of some long narrow stairs until I climbed up there with the trafficker. But they started to come down too soon. I felt the automatic in my back. When I heard the hammer...