Word: carly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eyes were fixed on a wall, topped with broken glass, near the school. The armed men were getting closer. I went over. When I reached a small courtyard, the people who lived there hid me and tended a gash in my hand." The U.S. embassy later sent an armored car to pick him up. "I was lucky I had a place to escape to," said Diederich, a Miami resident who was born in Haiti and is the son of TIME Reporter Bernard Diederich. "Those people took me into their homes when I was in danger, yet I cannot take them...
...Easy credit, proconsumption tax policies and an ethic of materialism have collaborated to turn the 1980s into the Spree Decade. "You work to have what you like, when you like," explains Nino Merenda, 31, a hair stylist in Skokie, Ill. "At this stage, I'd rather have a nice car than money in the bank." In fact, Merenda owns two cars: an Alfa Romeo and a Fiat...
...ever of a single confiscated item -- a red 1963 Ferrari racer, one of only 32 of the special twelve- cylinder model in existence. Federal prosecutors claimed that a slain narcotics smuggler bought the Ferrari with drug proceeds ($345,000 in cash carried in a knapsack). He subsequently gave the car to a Connecticut mechanic for services rendered. The feds seized the car and, when the mechanic was unable to prove that he had no reason to suspect a crime connection, agreed to give him a mere $135,000 as a settlement. A Rhode Island auto dealer is paying $1.6 million...
...really getting to be scary," complains Defense Attorney Tom Nolan of Palo Alto, Calif. "We're going back to 16th and 17th century Britain, where if you committed a crime you forfeited your property." Possessions used in committing certain federal crimes, a car for example, have long been subject to seizure. Since 1970, however, Congress has also allowed confiscation of the proceeds of some crimes under half a dozen major federal crimebusting statutes. Business began booming after a 1984 law provided for seizure of crime-related assets even if they have been sold or transferred. Moreover, money from the sale...
...election day dawned, violence seemed all but inevitable. But the breadth and randomness of the bloody assaults caught Haitians and observers unprepared. At least six death squads cruised the city in unmarked cars, sowing terror. At the Sacre Coeur church, Macoutes interrupted a morning service by smashing the altar and beating two women with the butts of their machetes. One man was shot and killed while walking with his children to church. Foreign journalists soon learned to avoid a small, burgundy-colored car that spewed bullets wildly...