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Secord returned to Washington in 1978 to head the Air Force's military- assistance and sales program. There he formed a relationship with Edwin Wilson, the CIA operative turned arms merchant now serving 52 years in federal prison for illegally selling arms to Libya. Secord's career stalled in 1982, when he came under investigation by a federal grand jury for allegedly conspiring with Wilson and others to defraud the U.S. Government of $8 million on an Egyptian arms-shipping contract. He was suspended from duty for a short time, although he was never indicted; he was reinstated with...
...former head of the Gestapo at Lyons re-entered France on Feb. 5, 1983. On orders from Minister of Justice Robert Badinter, he was locked in the same Montluc prison where his own victims had been subjected to maltreatment and torture. It is said he spent his first night in the very cell Badinter's father occupied before he was deported to Auschwitz, never to return...
Still very much in question, of course, is whether the impending changes will be enough at least to buy some time for further changes. And the demand of the black majority's leaders, both in and out of prison, is not just change but a change to black power. An election without blacks, one Soweto leader said last week, is "obscene." Botha and the Afrikaners retain full control of the instruments of power: almost all the officers of the well-equipped police force are Afrikaners, and the army is unquestionably the best on the continent. But facing the angry defiance...
Seven of the 15 are already serving prison terms for previous convictions. Louis Beam Jr., 40, a onetime Texas Ku Klux Klan organizer, is still at large. The other seven were arrested last week. They include two of the nation's best-known preachers of Hitlerite philosophy: Aryan Nations Leader Richard Butler, 69, and former Michigan K.K.K. Chief Robert Miles, 62. If convicted, the defendants face maximum prison terms ranging from ten years to life...
...free, unafraid, able to earn a decent living. Those are the benefits that America seems to offer to newcomers to these shores. But the reality is rarely so sunny. For millions of Mexicans, Central Americans, Chinese, Irish and others who enter surreptitiously, America can be as much a prison as a refuge. Most illegal immigrants live along the margins of society, working cheaply, anonymously and without complaint so as to avoid detection by authorities. Although they have become part of the texture of American life, they have remained anxious fugitives, separate and unequal. Part of America, surely...