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...Milk cow by hand, now lawn with manual mower, cultivate garden with handplow, become independent of gasoline driven machine, substitute candlelight for electricity...
Among thousands of former New Jersey convicts, a new 18-page manual called Clearing the Record is must reading. Put together by two experts at a Camden legal clinic for the poor, it tells how a criminal slate can be wiped clean under a year-old state "expungement" law that is the most advanced of its kind in the nation. The statute offers no help to most repeat offenders and those guilty of serious crimes like robbery and rape; rather, it is aimed at people who have fallen afoul of the law once or twice but have otherwise...
Expungement is in demand because a criminal record can prevent a person from getting a job, admission to a school or financial credit. A record can also be psychologically haunting. Stephan Haimowitz, one of the manual's authors, says interest in expungement is keen among older people, "who seem to have an emotional desire to leave this world with an unblemished record...
...Arnaud de Borchgrave and Robert Moss in their new novel The Spike. The plan itself, according to U.S. intelligence experts, is all too factual. "Disinformation" refers mostly to covert falsification tactics used by the Soviet Union to further its propaganda aims. Examples of disinformation-a forged U.S. Army field manual, bogus vice-presidential statements critical of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat-occasionally surface in the Western press...
While world financial markets reacted nervously to the outbreak of war between Iran and Iraq last week, a new book that promised to be a survival manual for economic disaster was riding atop the bestseller lists. Its title: Crisis Investing: Opportunities and Profits in the Coming Great Depression (Stratford Press; $12.50). The book has already sold approximately 150,000 copies and turned its author, Douglas R. Casey, 34, into the newest high priest of financial gloom and doom...