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Even the judge was shocked. After listening to hours of testimony about a multimillion-dollar drug-distribution network involving hired killers with a penchant for chain saws, U.S. District Judge Milton Pollack marveled that such iniquities "could be so coldbloodedly related." Yet the tales so coolly told in court helped indict 44 major traffickers and convict 16. The man doing the talking was Leroy ("Nicky") Barnes, a.k.a. "Mr. Untouchable." Barnes fingered Frank James, his ex-partner in drug dealing, for ordering his brother-in-law ice-picked to death. James, said Barnes, employed a four-man hit team; one aspiring...
When the ugly tide of black oil fouled the white beaches around Santa Barbara, Calif., in 1969, killing untold numbers of birds, seals and fish, few people were more appalled than William Clark. A top aide to then California Governor Ronald Reagan, Clark closely watched the progress of the multimillion-dollar cleanup that followed the oil-rig blowout, one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. Today, as successor to the divisive James Watt in the post of Secretary of the Interior, Clark likes to recall that calamitous experience to let environmentalists know that he shares their concerns about...
...book The Mind Race. "I did the work," he contends. Because he was working with special clearances while at SRI International, a California research institute, Targ will not specify whether the Defense Department, the CIA or both funded his psychic research programs, but he maintains that there was a "multimillion-dollar" project, part of which focused on "remote viewing" experiments...
...accurate." That kind of advice infuriates the anti-drunken-driving activists. "Drunk driving is a multimillion-dollar business for lawyers," says an angry Doris Aiken, founder of Remove Intoxicated Drivers (RID). She has some advice of her own for the new legion of legal specialists. "The best thing a lawyer can do for the drunk driver," she says, "is to tell him to face the music, and not go after a big fee to get him off." - By Michael S. Serrill...
...have 22 intelligent Senators who had the guts to vote against the multimillion-dollar King holiday. The rest are nothing but self-centered, self-serving politicians who hold their own personal interests in winning re-election above the good of the country...