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...being investigated by the Justice Department and three federal agencies. In Tampa, Customs and FBI agents are probing allegations that Noriega was paid off to facilitate the smuggling of drugs into the U.S. In Miami, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is looking into similar accusations. In addition, Ramon Milian Rodriguez, a Cuban-American convicted in 1985 of drug-related charges, has testified in closed hearings to a congressional committee that Noriega pocketed millions of dollars in commissions on drug profits that passed through Panama's central bank...
...Edge and Tandy. In 1985, by contrast, only about 15% of the games sold would run on business computers. When 750 U.S. executives were polled by Epyx, creator of Winter Games and Temple of Apshai, nearly 40% admitted that they had used their office computers for entertainment. Says Will Rodriguez, assistant manager of a B. Dalton's Software Etc. shop in Torrance, Calif.: "We sell an awful lot of games to people in business suits...
Thus ended last week one of the worst tragedies in the long and tortured history of illegal crossings of the U.S.-Mexican border. The lone survivor, Miguel Tostado Rodriguez, 21, told how he promised to pay $400 to a "coyote" (the term for smugglers who grow wealthy by sneaking Mexicans into the U.S.) for help in rafting the Rio Grande and hiding in a freight train headed for Fort Worth. All but two of his 18 companions had agreed to make similar payments. Those two were guides, working with the coyote...
...another of his firms (Lake Resources) $100,357 for the salaries of private American pilots used in air-dropping weapons to the contras. This, said Rudman, meant that the pilots should have been getting $450 a day. In fact, according to Rudman and a witness, former CIA Agent Felix Rodriguez, the pilots were paid at most $150 a day, suggesting that East, Inc., earned about $35,000 on this transaction alone. Secord and his partners, declared Rudman, "were not only arms dealers, they were flesh peddlers...
...killed and more than 100 injured. In the predawn darkness Saturday, rescuers were still digging away at the wreckage of homes illuminated only by the lamps on the workers' mining helmets. Bodies were laid out in a school bus converted into a makeshift morgue. Said Reeves County Jailer Janie Rodriguez: "The town is completely gone...