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Despite detractors' fears, most state-run lotteries have been scandal free. During the first six months of its lottery, Colorado arrested seven people who had tried to forge winning tickets, but it now boasts that last year's games were squeaky clean. "People get a thrill out of betting, and lotteries seem to serve that need," says Lieut. Alfred Cassinelli of the Washington, D.C., morals squad. "All you have to do is keep it honest...
...densely populated Chinese villages and towns in Yunnan and Guangxi." The Chinese claim Vietnamese infantry units have crossed the border in 90 places to lay land mines and plunder local settlements. Viet Nam recently showed off two Chinese prisoners to foreign journalists in Hanoi, while China's state-run television ran film clips of Chinese infantrymen near the border and of hospitalized Chinese casualties...
...entrepreneur working in direct competition with the state. With the help of a brother and sister, Bai handles 80 to 100 customers a day in his neat, red-painted studio, which he keeps open until 8 p.m. seven days a week. He works in the darkroom until midnight, processing the negatives and retouching them to eliminate warts, wrinkles and other unflattering features. "I don't rest," Bai says. "Even during festivals, I never close." Bai usually charges less than one yuan (500) for a portrait, undercutting prices at the state-run photographic studio up the street. After paying rent...
...month that he was absent, the Catholic Church in Poland had suddenly faced its most extraordinary external and internal challenges since the end of martial law last July. Externally, the church once again confronted the government of Prime Minister Wojciech Jaruzelski, this time on the removal of crucifixes from state-run school-rooms.* Internally, the church was in considerable turmoil over Glemp's decision last month to silence, with a transfer out of the Warsaw area, a priest in an industrial parish who had been outspoken in support of the Solidarity labor union during its brief life...
...apparently in good health. She is said to love the theater and the cinema, and on occasion has arranged private screenings of Soviet movies for other Kremlin wives. Chernenko's son Vladimir, who is in his late 30s, is an executive of Goskino, the state-run film-making organization. A graduate of the Institute of Foreign Relations, which trains young diplomats and journalists, Vladimir reportedly plays the piano and banjo and likes Western popular music and hard rock. Some sources say Chernenko has a second son, possibly from an earlier marriage, who works for the provincial propaganda department...