Word: fraude
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Detectives quickly excluded the Notarnicola family as suspects. In nearby New Rochelle, Secret Service agents arresting three suspects for credit-card fraud inadvertently discovered a letter threatening further poisonings unless the three were paid $2 million. Investigators believed the note was a fraud, an attempt to cash in on a tragic situation, as happened after the Chicago killings, when Con Man James W. Lewis went to prison for ten years for sending a $1 million extortion note to Johnson & Johnson...
...strong words did not come easily. The bishops had gone into closed session on Wednesday in the old walled city of Intramuros to draft their views on the elections. Unanimous in their opinion that the elections had been marred by fraud, some bishops still shied away from stating their conclusions plainly. Said one of the conferees: "Talks collapsed several times because we were afraid of the term civil disobedience and because we did not want to appear partisan." But there was no way to mask their target. One bishop even went so far as to say that Marcos should...
Meanwhile, in Manila, Marcos said yesterday that sore losers and "modern-day imperialists" in foreign capitals are trying to taint his election victory. The critics he castigated say he won by fraud...
...Senate and European Parliament have passed resolutions accusing Marcos of election fraud, and criticism has come from the Reagan administration and other governments...
Solarz said he had been assured by an intermediary earlier in the day that the legislation has the support of presidential opposition candidate Corazon Aquino, who has charged that fraud by Marcos and his supporters deprived her of victory in the Feb. 7 election...