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...authorities did unravel one of his money-laundering schemes, which typifies their complexity. Cash earned in the U.S. was smuggled to Mexico and handed over to a Monterrey currency exchange. Couriers then flew or drove the funds back to the U.S. and deposited them in the exchange's bank account in McAllen, Texas. Then, with the help of two directors at the American Express Bank International in Beverly Hills, California, the money was wired to the Manhattan accounts of Cayman Islands holding companies, and from there to investments stretching from Texas to Switzerland. In this way, the real owners...
...reminiscences by such Welles colleagues as lighting designer Abe Feder (still jazzy after all these years) and William Alland (who played the reporter in Kane). Best is the cogent narration, written by Lennon and Richard Ben Cramer and delivered by Cramer with tart authority, like a wiser Winchell. "Appetite drove [Welles]," he rasps. "Applause wasn't enough. He wanted amazement, the gasp of a common crowd...
...physician he knew, Dr. Robert McMillan, an oncologist at the Scripps Clinic in La Jolla. Christy's sister, living in Colorado, had urged her to see a leading bone-marrow transplanter at the University of Colorado, Roy B. Jones, but the deMeurerses decided to play by the book. They drove to La Jolla the following Monday...
Croatia gave a dramatic demonstration of military power last August, when it drove rebel Serbs from the Krajina region. That offensive took place seven months after MPRI began its work in the country. Serb and European military analysts suggested that the Croats had outside help, and MPRI quickly found itself on the defensive. But Soyster insists MPRI's role in Croatia is limited to classroom instruction on military-civil relations and doesn't involve training in tactics or weapons. Other U.S. military men say whatever MPRI did for the Croats--and many suspect more than classroom instruction was involved...
Lastly, despite what the 'safety' groups say, the no-limit policy is a lot better than what existed when the limit was in place. The reason has to do with the quirks of Western legislatures. Montana lawmakers, a good portion of whom drove hundreds of miles to the capitol for the legislative sessions, were hardly big advocates of the federal government telling them how fast they could go. Congress anticipated this reaction and tied federal money for highways to federal speed limits. There was no way a state as small in population and as large in size as Montana could...