Word: scheme
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...smashing of Saccoccia's empire is actually the third major drug-money % laundering indictment in the precious-metals and diamond industry in as many years. The first phase of what the Federal Government calls Operation Polar Cap involved the 1988 breakup of a $1 billion money-laundering scheme for the Medellin cartel through a Los Angeles jewelry mart. "Saccoccia was in a position to step right in after we knocked out Polar Cap One," says U.S. Attorney Lincoln Almond of Rhode Island. "We were onto him from...
Rescue attempts are emotionally satisfying but rarely successful. Carter's catastrophe in the Iranian desert cast a shadow over later U.S. plans. A scheme for rescuing the 39 passengers and crew hijacked aboard TWA Flight 847 in 1985 was bungled or never got off the ground...
...unleashed feverish speculation about the role the U.S. -- and maybe Waite himself -- had played in his capture. Did Waite know of Washington's secret arms dealings? And was he a willing agent, or an unwitting collaborator? Before his capture, Waite denied any knowledge of the U.S. arms-for-hostages scheme...
Government policymakers could be coming around as well. In New York City, where a program that provided drug addicts with clean needles had been canceled, Mayor David Dinkins announced that he had changed his mind and endorsed a new needle-exchange scheme. Even President Bush, who has done little of substance to support prevention campaigns, made the symbolic gesture of inviting Magic Johnson to fill a vacancy on his National Commission on AIDS. Johnson quickly accepted...
Sure, hyperactive Jeremy Knowles can yell about austerity all he wants. Vaguely articulate Neil Rudenstine can mumble murky metaphors about tubs and bottoms to his heart's content. The University can scheme about clever ways to bilk $2 billion out of unsuspecting alumni until the Charles freezes over...