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...Guide to Chinese Culture and Civilization to help him ride out the bumps. In no time flat, White conveniently manages to stumble on an international drug ring masterminded by the reigning Chinese Godfather, Joey Tai. White immediately jumps into action, tracking the drug king's every move with various illicit listening devices and tailing him via a Chinese rookie cop whom White has inserted as a mole in Tai's operation. What follows is a more than predictable series of cat-and-mouse games between White and Tai, climaxing in a surprisingly uneventful and rather boring shoot...
...Their first meeting got off to an edgy beginning. Because Wilkinson was from New York City, Bunting suspected him of being a Mafia hit man. But the Yankee journalist hung around long enough to win Bunting's confidence and come up with Moonshine, an intoxicating report on free and illicit spirits...
CONVICTED. R. Foster Winans, 36, former Wall Street Journal reporter, on 59 counts of conspiracy, securities fraud, and mail and wire fraud, for using advance knowledge of his paper's stories to make illicit profits in the stock market; in New York City. Winans had passed along information about future stories to former Kidder, Peabody Stockbrokers Peter Brant, who previously pleaded guilty to similar charges, and Kenneth P. Felis, who was found guilty last week on 41 counts. Of the $675,000 in profits, $31,000 was funneled to Winans through his longtime roommate, David J. Carpenter, who was convicted...
Even as Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth began his campaign to eliminate illicit drug use from the sport last month, a grand jury in Pittsburgh was hearing testimony from at least eleven players about possible drug dealers in or around the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh clubhouses. Last week the grand jury indicted seven people who had associated with major league players, charging them with more than 160 counts, mainly for distributing cocaine. No players were indicted, although some had reportedly testified under immunity from charges...
...Cosby Show is the sort of hit that warms the hearts of even the coldest TV critics. Unlike other prime-time successes of recent years, such as Dallas and The A-Team, the series does not trade in illicit sex, cliff-hanger endings or car chases. It is a wholesome and rather sweet portrayal of a relatively realistic household. Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable and his family happen to be black, but no special point is made of that fact--a refreshingly mature treatment of the matter of race...