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Here the movie loosens up. Margaret starts hanging out with the con men, ostensibly to make them the object of another book. In reality, she's getting illicit kicks out of their scams...
From Southern California to Texas, towering saguaros on front lawns are the hottest thing since plastic pink flamingos. The demand has encouraged an illicit industry: cactus rustling. Many of the specimens bought by homeowners and collectors have been stolen from Government-owned wilderness lands. In Arizona last year more than 200 thieves were fined or given warnings for digging up a variety of state-protected species, most of which have shallow roots. Conservationists are now lobbying for stricter state and federal laws to stop poachers, who are lured by substantial profits. Saguaros, which can take more than 100 years...
...that a Bourges munitions firm, Luchaire, sold some 500,000 artillery shells worth $120 million to Tehran between 1983 and 1986. The alleged deal violated a government embargo against military aid to Iran. The report, written by the army controller-general, claims that Mitterrand and Hernu knew of the illicit sales as early as 1984 and did nothing to stop them. The report charges that Mitterrand's Socialist Party may have taken kickbacks worth about $500,000 to look the other...
...were annoyed by the warning, many say they saw Salovaara's call as a necessary clarification of a confusing rule. According to Adam J. Fratto '90, who is directing The Foreigner, there was "a lot of misinformation floating around" about the rule. But he adds that Salovaraa stopped the illicit calling "before it became much of an issue...
Zimbabwe has launched a last- ditch war to save the black rhinoceros and shut down an illicit trade in rhino horns...