Word: illicitness
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...defendant: former billionaire Adnan Khashoggi. The now bankrupt Saudi Arabian arms dealer stands accused of conspiring with the Marcoses to conceal their illicit spending by backdating documents to make it appear that he, not the Marcoses, had bought four Manhattan skyscrapers valued at about $400 million. Actress Bo Derek played a cameo role, visiting her friend Khashoggi in the courtroom...
...important preliminary to full integration of the twelve-member European Community, scheduled for Jan. 1, 1993. Within the new five-nation zone, passport controls for citizens will be lifted, police will share information, and extradition and political-asylum measures will be harmonized. But to combat a possible increase in illicit drug trafficking, terrorist activities and illegal immigration, controls on the external borders of Schengenland will be tightened...
...member, have nothing in common except their age, and the intoxication and empowerment that came when they first fired a gun. Young boys, be they in Burma or Afghanistan or Northern Ireland or Los Angeles, are drawn to the violence; even the fear, when it distills into adrenaline, carries illicit pleasure. What sets Los Angeles apart from Afghanistan, Burma and Northern Ireland is that gang warfare, with its spoils of drug money, gratifies greed. Money in South Central is the gang warrior's jihad -- a fitting retribution for a materialistic society...
...status. During that time, the number of aliens captured annually fell by half, from a peak of 1.8 million in 1986. Although supporters applaud this as proof that would-be illegals are staying home, a more plausible explanation is that the legalization program helped to augment -- not reduce -- the illicit flow. Even more telling, the influx is rising once again. Since December, the INS' monthly apprehension figures are averaging 50% higher than the year before. "It's getting back to business as usual," warns Arthur Helton, an immigration expert at the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights...
Instead this will force them into illegal drug trading. The case of illegal narcotics proves that where there is a demand for an illicit drug, there will always be a supply...