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Those profits attract investment funds from a variety of sources. Switzerland is so fretful about an influx of tainted narcotics money that the government has announced a special drive to screen numbered bank accounts for illegal uses. While there is no financial "octopus" for drug money in Switzerland, there are ways in which capital flows into narcotics. Money invested in clandestine companies registered in the name of a "manufacturer's representative" or "legal representative" often finds its way into the drug underworld...
...dream evaporates. He wants to be a network sportscaster but ends up a clerk. His boss advises him to cultivate some sexual deviation if he hopes to succeed in New York. All Suggs can manage is a garden-variety divorce. Then the city moves in on him like an octopus, with one tentacle assaulting him, a second robbing him and a third depositing him babbling on a park bench along with a pair of kooks. This would be as painful as it is abrupt were it not for Playwright Wiltse's engagingly fanciful humor and William Atherton...
Spats between columnists and newspaper editors over altered copy have been known to grow bitter, but when the writer is a popular mayor and the paper is the main tentacle of what he calls a "political communications octopus," the fight can take strange turns. Milwaukee Mayor Henry Maier claimed to be so incensed over some fiddling with his column in the afternoon Journal that he canceled the weekly series and announced that he would no longer entertain press-conference questions from any representatives of the Journal Co. That includes the only other major newspaper in town, the morning Sentinel...
Despite its claim to be an exclusively spiritual organization, Opus Dei has become a powerful conservative force in Spanish politics and society. Its members occupy top positions in that country's government, economy and university system. Some Spaniards refer to it as "Octopus...
...eclipse, the Falange has long raged at the rise of the pragmatic, outward-looking Opus Dei, whose members dominate Franco's 19-member Cabinet. As many conservatives in and out of the Falange see it, the efforts by the envied "holy Mafia"-also known as "Octopus Dei"-to build bridges to the rest of the world, Communist and nonCommunist, are directly responsible for Spain's increasing problems with all manner of separatists and dissidents at home. In their mass rallies, the Falange faithful often take up a pointed chant: "Franco si, Opus...