Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...underneath the roaring traffic of Los Angeles' San Diego Freeway. Next to Villa's mattress stands a cardboard Perrier carton that contains most of his worldly possessions: a toothbrush, a tube of Colgate toothpaste, a cracked and yellowing bar of soap, a flashlight and a beginner's manual of English. Villa looks 13, but he claims to be 16. Every morning he hikes over to the "slave market" on Sawtelle Boulevard and hangs around with other youths until someone drives up and offers him $30 for a day's work shoveling gravel or moving furniture. "It's better than picking...
When agents searched the trailer where Whitworth lived with his second wife Brenda, 30, they found the computer disks on which the "Dear Johnnie" letters to Walker were still stored, as well as a 48-page manual of Navy contingency plans for major hostilities in the Middle East. Brenda protested that they also carried away all her computerized notes for her doctoral dissertation on nutrition. Born and reared on a farm in North Dakota, she had met Whitworth on a 1971 trip to San Diego. She had found him "dynamic and very interesting to talk to," she told...
...four pages, and many of these are being sent just because you can send them." Admits Turner: "There is no question that our entire procedure for handling classified documents in this Government is sloppy." Horror stories abound. Turner recalls that, when CIA Clerk William Kampiles sold a classified manual on satellite surveillance to the Soviets (for $3,000), the CIA checked and could not find 13 other authorized copies of the same document...
...rate. In Liverpool, for example, 25% of the labor force is out of work. "We have football," says Psychologist Peter Marsh. "Other societies have street gangs." A 1980 study of soccer hooliganism in Britain found that four-fifths of those charged with soccer- related crimes were either unemployed or manual workers. Says Sociologist John Williams of the University of Leicester: "We must go into the community to find out why young people find status in this kind of violence...
...those three men did for Reagan or how they did it. "It's a people business," explains Baker, adding as much mystery as he dispels. If he ever writes a book about what went on in those four years, it will be more of a psychology text than a manual on technique...