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...jobs in the beleaguered steel industry. And more than 3 million voters-a record number-came out in Ohio to repeal, 2 to 1, the state law allowing people to register to vote as late as Election Day itself. The main fear: last-minute registration would encourage fraud. Across the nation, Americans who went to the polls to choose local and state officials also voted on a wide variety of issues that until recently they had left up to their elected representatives to decide...
When the intensity ends, Kosinski continued, a person should not consider the end of a relationship a defeat, but merely a part of life. Too often "fraud creeps in and we drag on, the way we drag on with a profession or an apartment," he added...
Sullivan also led a fight two years ago to uncover ballot fraud in Cambridge elections. In addition, Sullivan wants to end patronage and promote more efficient and professional city government...
...Mario Merola, who was a navigator in World War II. Chicago's Humboldt Park area has some 400 charred, abandoned buildings. In Detroit, 10,000 houses stand vacant, victims of fire. "The city is burning down," said an anguished Lieut. Robert McClary, head of Detroit's fire-fraud squad...
...Enforcement Assistance Administration, insurance companies and city officials plan to create arson information banks to help apprehend torches. Unfortunately, catching arsonists requires enterprising detective work-and luck. The U.S. Attorney for western Pennsylvania, Blair Griffith, for example, has won 20 arson convictions based on the federal crime of mail fraud. Griffith relied on an arsonist turned informant: Merrill H. Klein, 53, a self-styled "business consultant" who worked as a "broker" for landlords eager to torch their property. After pleading guilty in 1974 to helping burn down a hotel in Bedford, Pa., Klein agreed to testify for the Government...