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...also pointed to Asian Americans as those "who take the hardest courses, do very well and are our best musical instrumentalists. But few of them hold their own on the interior line in football," he said...
...disguise payments made to Winans for the tips, Brant and Felis wrote checks to Carpenter. Phony invoices were created to give the impression that Carpenter was being paid for interior decorating work. On Jan. 29, Carpenter deposited a $10,000 check written on Felis' account at Morgan Guaranty Trust with "drapes" written on it. Despite their careful precautions, the scheme began unraveling in February. Tipped off by the American Stock Exchange about trading irregularities, the SEC began questioning Clark and Brant. At one point, Brant showed up at Clark's law office in a "state of high emotional...
...Melanesian rarity in great demand by collectors. The entire collection of exotic specimens, worth $124,000, was being smuggled from Indonesia to Australia, the U.S. and Europe. In the U.S., a "sting" set up by the Fish and Wildlife Service, an enforcement agency of the Department of the Interior, uncovered a huge, Atlanta-based black market in turtles, lizards, poisonous snakes and migratory birds. From the tiny African nation of Burundi, which has a known elephant population of one, hundreds of tons of ivory are shipped each year. The tusks, say conservationists, have probably been smuggled in from Tanzania, Rwanda...
...third of these items are of illegal origin. Illicit trading has reached such alarming proportions that this week in Washington the fund's international president, Prince Philip of Britain, is announcing a vigorous new campaign to save endangered wildlife. The operation, endorsed by the U.S. Justice and Interior departments, will call upon industrialized and affluent countries to step up their efforts to police unlawful imports...
...book Passage Through El Dorado, Kandell plays up the similarities between the wave of settlement now occurring in the jungle interior of South America and the push west so important to U.S. history. The wild, reckless settlement of the Amazon region has much of the character of an Oklahoma land rush. And they may have the same importance for the nations south of the border that the settlement of the west had for the United States-relieving overcrowded cities and rural areas of some of their excess populations. This could be especially important in nations like Brazil, whose urban areas...