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...bomb blew up his car. Bolles had for years been digging into local political corruption and organized crime. On June 2 he was finally lured to his death by a telephone tipster who claimed to be offering information on a land-sales fraud. Now Bolles' colleagues of the IRE (Investigative Reporters and Editors Association) will try to pick up where he left off. "We're not here to catch Don Bolles' killer," says Michael Wendland of the Detroit News. (A local race-dog breeder goes on trial for the murder next week.) "We know something is very...
...after the killing of Bolles, who was also a member. So far, they have raised some $20,000 for the venture (the goal: $50,000). They have chosen as their leader Robert Greene, whose investigative task forces at Long Island's Newsday have won two Pulitzer Prizes. The IRE volunteers plan to publish the results of the investigation simultaneously in their 14 papers next January...
...Reed, the reluctant Reynolds becomes involved with an engaging assortment of odd characters: Jack Weston as a New York-born Government man parboiling in sweaty paranoia; Alice Ghostley as a dotty old bookkeeper who has the goods on the gangster; Lauren Hutton as a TV newshen whose professional ambitions ire at war with her attraction to the superstud from the swamps. The job also involves Reynolds, a former stunt man, in a couple of nice action sequences, including a high-velocity motorboat chase and an imaginatively staged concluding set-to with his former friend. Finally, there is a leave-taking...
...trouble began last February, when Amin claimed a large chunk of Kenyan territory and made veiled threats to take it by force. Then came the raid on Entebbe in July, when Kenya added to Amin's ire by allowing Israel to refuel its planes in Nairobi. After several hundred Kenyans living in Uganda were reported murdered in retaliation, Kenyan border guards began halting the fuel trucks. Amin last week appealed to the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity for aid to counter the blockade, which he warned "may force Uganda to resort to desperate action...
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