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...avail, as Soviet broadcasts into Iran encouraged the captors to keep the Americans prisoner. Pravda said that the U.S. had invited retaliation by restoring the Shah to the throne in 1953 and then, when he was overthrown, refusing to return him to Iran. When the U.S. rescue raid failed last April, the Soviet press burst out in triumphant indignation: "An abortive provocation," "a violation of international...
First undercover agents, posing as clients, were sent to case the joint, an office on the fifth floor of a building next to Grand Central Station in New York City. Then prosecutors raided the premises -impounding two truckloads of evidence. Though it had the split-second timing of a narcotics bust, last week's daylight raid by New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams was trying to smash a ring of ghostwriters who sell term papers to college students. Instead of cocaine or marijuana, the evidence included papers with titles like "The Importance of Fate in Romeo and Juliet...
...laws, threatening fines and jail terms of up to 90 days for ghostwriters who help college students with assignments. So far officials have found the law difficult to enforce. New York prosecutors first won a court injunction against Collegiate Research Systems Inc., the target of last week's raid, in 1978. Company President John Magee, 29, responded with a series of time-consuming legal appeals; he drew a contempt of court citation and did not pay his fine...
Last week's raid came after three local colleges, upset by the ghostwriters' brazen sales tactics, complained to officials. Says James A. Malone, dean of students at John Jay College of Criminal Justice: "I have personally chased off peddlers hawking handbills just outside the school. We even have a person assigned just to remove these advertisements from campus bulletin boards...
...Rhonda Singer say they expect to investigate eight to ten other ghostly firms in the next 30 days. Meanwhile, hundreds of C.R.S. clients will have to write their own term papers-or buy them elsewhere. In fact, several anxious students called C.R.S. to ask about their papers while the raid was in progress last week. Their requests met no sympathy from the investigator who was answering the C.R.S. phone. Later some even telephoned the attorney general's office to ask for their papers. They had already paid for the work, they said. Besides, they added, the papers were...