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...South Florida, the center of the American drug trade, depositors have been known to walk up to a teller's window with a few dollars less than $10,000 in cash. Couriers known as "Smurfs," referring to the cartoon characters, flit from bank to bank buying cashier's checks and money orders for just under the reporting limit. One of the most popular ways to launder money in Florida now is to buy real estate. An estimated $2.5 billion worth of property in that area is believed to have been bought with drug profits...
Last week Vice President Bush took offense at a strip that accused him of selling out his beliefs and suggestively belittled his political "manhood," which was described as being placed in a "blind trust." The cartoon Bush, queried whether the manhood would be "earning interest," responded, "Very little. There's not that much capital." The real Bush accused Trudeau of "coming out of deep leftfield" and described him as "another voice out there hoping we are defeated...
...RECENT CARTOON for the Des Moines Register said it all. It showed one skunk with the face of Republican Senator Roger W. Jepsen and another skunk with the face of Democratic Representative Tom Harkin. The two were spraying each other to death...
...have balked at CIA help. Last spring they objected to a 16-page CIA Freedom Fighters' Manual, which showed, with comic-book-style illustrations, sabotage techniques like pulling down power cables and putting dirt into gas tanks. It was eventually distributed, but one contra leader objected that the cartoon characters depicted in the drawings "didn't look very Nicaraguan...
...common sense measures that groups from the Boers to the Rhmer Rouge have taken to mount effective insurrections. But aided by a lack of press coverage of that region Reagan has been able to play down the real consequences of his policies, making the contras sound like cartoon GI Joes fighting for truth and justice with guns that only kill Commies. The matter-of-fact Macchiavellianism of the CIA's booklet underscores the ugly truth that we are not with the good guys, which is not to imply that we are lighting them, either...