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...three times as many as in 1970, and the U.S. Department of Commerce estimates merchants' losses from thefts in 1976 at some $8 billion. In the past eight weeks police in Hialeah, Fla., have arrested six members of a band of shoplifters called the Chilean Commandos, trained in Fagin-type schools in Valparaiso and Santiago. South American rings have been collecting booty worth between $150 million and $200 million a year in and around such major Hispanic centers as Miami, New York City and Los Angeles. But the problem of shoplifting is particularly severe at Christmas time, when saturation...
...Since Fagin was Dickens' infamous caricature of a Jew, I can only assume that your magazine wished to make an unfavorable implication...
...find it in extremely poor taste-whatever your opinion of Mr. Begin-to use the name "Fagin" to show people how Mr. Begin's name is pronounced...
Menachem Begin (rhymes with Fagin) has been anything but that to his numerous antagonists. To the British in the 1940s, he was Public Enemy No. 1 in Palestine, with a $30,000 price on his head. To the Arabs, he was a ruthless terrorist responsible for the massacre of innocent Palestinian villagers. To Israel's first Premier, David Ben-Gurion, he was a dangerous fascist who threatened to overthrow the newborn nation's fledgling government...
...describes how polite the robbers were as they trussed up the teller: no threats, much courtesy. From the spokesman comes no outrage or even indignation; perhaps the next question provides the answer to that: the bank is fully covered by insurance. The robbers are made glamorous by their victims. Fagin, were he alive, would be adding public relations courses to his school for crime...