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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many scams involve the purchase of glittering nonfood items with stamps. Agents have bought a motorboat and used cars in Illinois, a gun complete with silencer in Wisconsin and marijuana in Kentucky. At the Hennepin Hotel in Minneapolis, the U.S. agency investigators discovered that the owner gladly accepted the coupons instead of cash when it came to settle the room bill. In an investigation in Las Vegas headed by Lamond Mills, U.S. Attorney for Nevada, federal agents used the stamps this year to purchase, among other items, four guns, two diamond rings, a handsaw, cocaine, a macaw from Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Definitely Not USDA Approved | 8/23/1982 | See Source »

Phase II of the inquiry centers on the charge that Donovan, then part owner of New Jersey's Schiavone Construction Co., met near Miami in January 1979 with two known mobsters: William Masselli, a member of the Genovese Mafia family and head of an excavation firm that did business with Schiavone; and Albert ("Chink") Facchiano, a convicted loan shark and former capo (captain) in the Genovese clan. The purpose of the Miami get-together was reportedly to set up no-show jobs for Genovese Mob members on Schiavone construction sites. Although Donovan refused to comment on the new inquiry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jury Still Out | 8/23/1982 | See Source »

...suspects. The police subpoenaed a sock belonging to the suspect and let a trained German shepherd sniff it; the dog was then set loose in a room containing the remains of the real bomb and four replicas. The animal headed straight for the genuine one, and the sock owner's scent. Last week, 91 days after Mother's Day, police arrested their suspect outside his Brooklyn apartment and charged him with mailing the deadly package-to his mom. The accused: Craig Kipp. The motive of Kipp, an unemployed marine engineer, was not known. Craig's father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: A Case of Mommie Dearest? | 8/23/1982 | See Source »

...there have been 70 casualties, including four deaths, among people who, though not Turkish, were in the terrorists' line of fire. Four of the killings have taken place in the U.S. The most recent: the murder in Somerville, Mass., last May of Orhan Gunduz, a Turkish gift-shop owner, who was also honorary Turkish consul general for New England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkey: A Cry for Bloody Vengeance | 8/23/1982 | See Source »

...settlements or, failing that, to make it easier to get favorable rulings against defective products by shifting to the automaker the burden of proving that it was not at fault. Manufacturers can avoid liability only by proving that the defect is not substantial, or that the problem came from owner negligence or from modifications the buyer made on the auto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dividends: Lemon Aid | 8/23/1982 | See Source »

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