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Elsewhere, the reaction was outrage. Britain's antiapartheid movement demanded that the rebel players be banned forever. Sports Minister Colin Moynihan advised them not to go, and Tanzanian Foreign Minister Benjamin Mkapa warned that African nations might boycott the 1990 Commonwealth Games...
Massachusetts' multi-state effort to snare delinquent taxes owed the Commonwealth netted a record $526 million in fiscal 1989. Of that, about $600,000 was collected from $2.1 million in income tax assessments on criminal profits...
...unreported income of prostitutes, bookies and drug dealers was targeted by Massachusetts for the first time in 1988. This year, beginning in the fall, the Commonwealth plans to go after the unreported sales of illegal drugs as well...
...Commonwealth plans to levy the state's 5 percent sales tax, plus 18 percent annual interest charges and other penalties on these drug sales as detailed in the dealers' own records seized by law enforcement officials...
...What we are considering is legislation to deny benefits to people looking for protection and incur more costs to the commonwealth," said state Rep. John McDonough (D-Boston). McDonough said the changes sought by Forman and Woodward would cost taxpayers $12 million per year...