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...with prejudice" means to blackball an agent administratively so that he cannot work again as an informer. When the phrase "to terminate with extreme prejudice" is used, it often becomes the cloak-and-dagger code for extermination. In June, just such an execution order reached a U.S. Special Forces outfit in a port city of South Viet Nam. Seven Green Beret officers and one enlisted man helped to carry it out. The upshot was their arrest and detention pending investigation. Last week, as the Army maintained total silence and a host of rumors swirled through offices and bars in Saigon...
...stop makin' cars for women.' " They fixed him up with a model deep enough to accommodate him, Stetson and all. Three of his seven children live with him: Aissa, 13, John Ethan, 7, and Marisa, 3. Two older sons, Pat and Michael, run Wavne's Batjac film-production outfit. And 16 grandchildren frequently wander around the spacious house. No one has counted all the people on the payroll; there are the folks at Batjac, the moviemaking cronies who travel with Wayne from picture to picture, the employees on his cotton and cattle ranches, one of which covers 60 square miles...
...answer, according to an Illinois-based outfit called Americans Building Constitutionally (ABC), was a decided yes. ABC's expert tutors showed businessmen, small industrialists and well-to-do professionals how to set up family foundations, hire themselves and their relatives as directors, and then all but thumb their noses at federal and state tax collectors. The trick was to minimize income taxes by paying themselves small salaries and by writing off such things as cars, general-expense accounts and life-insurance policies...
...that: 1) the founder of the trust never really relinquished his control or interest in it; and 2) he never redly intended it to be set up exclusively for charitable purposes. Though ABC knew that this was contrary to federal statutes governing tax-free foundations, the state charged, the outfit tried to conceal the fact by enjoining its clients to absolute secrecy. "The cleverness of the scheme," said California Deputy Attorney General H. Warren Siegel, "was to get you to join by saying 'Only we have this plan,' and then saying 'Don't tell anyone what...
...system became still more complex after the astronauts stepped out of the LM and onto the moon. No longer hooked up with the cabin, Armstrong carried in his backpack a 61-lb. unit consisting of two transmitters and three receivers. The portable outfit sent his voice back to the LM, which then rebroadcast it to the world. Once Edwin Aldrin emerged from the cabin, he picked up Armstrong's voice directly by means of a backpack receiver of his own. Aldrin's voice, in turn, was broadcast to Armstrong by a tiny FM transmitter. It was Armstrong...