Word: melvins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...closing arguments, the defense emphasized that the case, which is the first of separate trials of five more Congressmen on ABSCAM charges this month and next, rested chiefly on the testimony of Melvin Weinberg, an admitted swindler who was one of the principals in the undercover operation. Countered Prosecutor Thomas Puccio: "Do you really believe that a U.S. Congressman took $50,000 in an envelope when he really didn't want to do it?" Said Defense Attorney John Duffy: "It's Mel vs. Ozzie. That's what it boils down...
...glass business. He told of swindling $30,000 from the Attorney General of Bolivia and, by age 50, becoming so adept at devising con games that he franchised them to other swindlers and earned the nickname "the McDonald's of con men." But in 1977, the FBI caught Melvin Weinberg, now 55, trying to fleece Singer Wayne Newton and several other people of $200,000. Faced with a possible three-year prison sentence, Weinberg agreed to carry on his profession, this time for the law. He became one of the principals in ABSCAM,* the investigation in which FBI agents...
...endowed each of them with unusual depth. Only Makepeace's Clifford is awkward at times. He must be the wimp and the hero at once, a difficult role for any actor, and a task just beyond Makepeace's grasp. But Baldwin and Matt Dillon, as big bully Melvin Moody, are superb in roles no less difficult. As for the adults, Martin Mull and John Houseman appear fleetingly, and Ruth Gordon sticks to her tried-and-true role as a sex-hungry...
Former Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird estimates that at least 100,000?and perhaps as many as 250,000?military families could be eligible for welfare. Says Colonel Eliot: "When 16% of the Air Force can qualify for food stamps, patriotism doesn't make it as a motivator." Military base commissaries are taking in over $10 million annually in food stamps. Complains a paratroop sergeant in Alaska: "If the Government can give me $71 a month in food stamps, why can't it give it to me in salary...
...TIME held a seminar that brought together five of the nation's experts on the subject: Morris Janowitz, 60, Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and one of the nation's few academics to study the military as a distinct group within society; Melvin Laird, 57, who as Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1973 led the fight for the all-volunteer force, and is now the Washington-based senior counsellor on national and international affairs for the Reader's Digest; Senator Sam Nunn, 41, the Georgia Democrat who is chairman...