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...protect the elderly poor from the cost of health insurance by having the government pay the $29.90 monthly Medicare premium for people over 65 whose annual income is less than $6,620. But, according to the 1990 agreement between Congress and the Social Security Administration, in order to obtain the benefit, people had to apply for it. Families USA, an advocacy group for senior citizens, charges that 2.2 million people eligible for the program never made applications because the government didn't tell them about it. The monthly premiums continued to be deducted from their Social Security checks, saving...
Document specialists obtain clean driver's licenses and car registrations. In 1989 the FBI and New York City prosecutors cracked a scheme in which employees of the state Department of Motor Vehicles were taking bribes of $100 to write phony registration papers. Hundreds of falsely documented cartel vehicles, fitted with hidden compartments, moved drugs north from Mexico and returned south with cash...
Bilbeisi's smuggling scheme, undetected by U.S. authorities, began with bribes to coffee growers in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador to obtain beans not subject to tariff agreements. The coffee, available at bargain rates, was ostensibly for domestic consumption or export to nontariff nations. To move the contraband through Central America, Bilbeisi's agents, financed by B.C.C.I. letters of credit, paid bribes to truckers, checkpoint officials and port officials. The coffee was marked for delivery to Jordan or Syria but was routed through Miami or New Orleans, where it was secretly off-loaded. Former U.S. shipping agents who testified before...
...Most Americans were never beguiled by visions of a new world order and are more grateful for what was actually won than embittered by the failure to obtain what was never achievable. "We want so badly to be proud of our nation and ourselves," says Gil Rene, whose wife Denise was called to the gulf last October by her reserve unit three days after their wedding. "Well, it's over now," Rene adds. "We got the job done, all right? Let's move on. It didn't change the world, or world politics. It didn't change anything. They...
CAPTION: Is it morally acceptable for parents to conceive a child in order to obtain an organ or tissue to save the life of another one of their children...