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...first round of voting ended in bitter wrangling. The I.R.P. was accused of cheating by practically all its principal opponents. Minister of State Dariush Forouhar, leader of the Iran Nation Party, resigned his Cabinet post to protest "widespread, shameless fraud." Said he: "I have fought for the principle of fair play all my life. I won't stomach this circus." Last week the ruling Revolutionary Council set up a seven-member commission to look into the allegations of fraud. If the charges prove to be true, said Banisadr, new elections will be held in some constituencies...
Ringmasters of the Liverpool scheme were two Dutch businessmen, a Leiden wine retailer and the head of a bottling firm in Lisse. The Lisse company, investigators learned, also did business with an other Dutch wine dealer named Bernard Kahn. Authorities believe Kahn was running his own, higher-class fraud...
Such a history has tended to dam age the self-esteem of TV weathercasters. Sometimes they even suspect themselves of fraud. Willard Scott has been heard to say, with an undercurrent of melancholy: "A trained gorilla could do what I do." In fact, even if some of today's forecasters are merely local station Ken dolls rolled out to mouth data gleaned from WE 6-1212, many are knowledgeable meteorologists who provide a valuable public service. Gordon Barnes of WDVM-TV in Washington, D.C., operates his own independent weather service. The best in the business is Dr. Frank Field...
...intervals during the play, the croupier passes the stolen chips to an accomplice, known as a baron, who masquerades as an ordinary player. At the Dieppe casino, barons cashed in $600,000 worth of purloined chips before the fraud was discovered; 23 croupiers were arrested there last September. Said one Dieppe employee: "The croupiers could have swiped the chandeliers from the casino if they had wanted...
...abashed by the buildup, LaRouche takes the microphone. He starts slowly, with the expected discussion of massive vote fraud and the remarks about the nastiness of the press, including an offhand reference to "Katharine Meyer Graham's Washington Post." A comparison of himself to DeGaulle. Then the speech starts to build; and if some of the words resemble those of other candidates, the message doesn't. "The U.S. has a moral destiny to fulfull among other nations, on the behalf of civilization." From the audience, an echoing "Amen." "We have to start from finding what our mission is, and then...