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...proceeded to make the catch of his life. In the Yukon Motel restaurant in Teslin (pop. 350), the ruddy, barrel-chested Mountie eyed a 300-lb. stranger sitting nearby. He thought he might have seen the man before -- on a wanted poster. The stranger, it turned out, was Charles McVey, a particularly notorious smuggler sought by U.S. Customs officials for illegally exporting millions of dollars' worth of computer equipment to Moscow. The sharp-eyed Corporal Fudge got his man, and is now a decorated hero. McVey sits in a Vancouver jail awaiting extradition proceedings next month...
...reigning technobandits, none was more brazen or accomplished than McVey, who had been shipping technology to the Soviet Union and arranging computer-training classes for Soviet engineers since the early 1970s. The equipment transferred reportedly included high-capacity computer disk drives, as well as imaging systems that could be used in the study of satellite photographs. McVey had obtained the products through four companies he controlled in California's Orange County...
...switching could hurt the profitability of the fund companies, since money-market and bond funds bring in lower sales commissions and management fees than stock funds do. Most fund managers hope that investors, after a period of cooling their nerves, will venture back into the stock funds. Says Edward McVey, senior vice president at Franklin Resources: "As soon as people got over the initial trauma of Black Monday, they were calling up to reverse their redemptions." Michael Lipper, president of Lipper Analytical Securities, is not quite so confident. "The panic is over," he says, "but the jury is still...
...fashioned Jeep lovers sneer at the toys and their trappings. According to George McVey Sr., 48, headmaster of St. Christopher's School in Richmond and owner of two Jeep Cherokees, the Japanese versions just do not have the oomph needed to haul his 3,000-lb. boat: "The Isuzu Trooper just couldn't pull it." Nor are the teeny trucks well suited to long-distance drives. Atlanta Salesman Stewart Powell, 25, describes a "miserable" 200-mile journey in his Samurai: "It's like driving a go-cart. On the highway the engine is really loud, and you feel like...
...McVey fled the U.S. in 1982, after being indicted for shipping sophisticated computers, satellite image-processing gear and other equipment ; to Moscow. He apparently decided to visit the Yukon on a fishing trip, and was spotted by a Mountie corporal who remembered his photograph...