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...product of a 16-month, $1.4 million investigation by the Phoenix police and the Maricopa County attorney's office, the indictment charged the accused with accepting $370,000 from an undercover agent posing as a Las Vegas "gaming consultant" building support for casino gambling. Police say the sting began as an investigation of an illegal gambling network that had attracted the interest of organized crime. "We didn't know at the time how earth shattering it would be," said Phoenix Police Chief Ruben Ortega, "until the evidence began to grow...
...center of Arizona's sting operation -- quickly dubbed Azscam -- was a flamboyant Las Vegan who called himself J. Anthony Vincent. According to the indictment, Vincent assuaged the legislators' fears about hidden cameras and once reportedly stripped in front of a lobbyist to show he wasn't concealing a microphone. In fact, Vincent was an undercover agent named Joseph C. Stedino. Ortega says that 95% of the evidence comes from audio-and videotapes. In one police videotape, state representative Don Kenney, who faces 28 counts, is seen stuffing $55,000 in cash into a gym bag and joking about cameras being...
...concerned, is no longer tenable. No more Tolstoy or King (too Christian, too manly), no more Gandhi (too resolute), no more strong stand against over-whelming force. "The wisdom of nonviolence" has been vanquished in its pitched battle with the forces of logic, and my eyes sting when I read Mark A. Gragg '91 say to Crimson reporters, "Once we're committed, we're committed...
...some prevented -- between Western countries and Iraq. Two years ago, a British engineering firm in Coventry, Matrix-Churchill International, was found by British customs to have exported precision lathes and supplied training to Iraqi engineers. There was nothing illegal about either transaction. In March a joint Anglo-American sting operation foiled an attempt by Iraqi agents to ship to Iraq through London's Heathrow Airport U.S.-made electronic capacitors that could be used in a nuclear bomb...
...arrival of the killer bees had been feared ever since hives were discovered in northern Mexico in 1986. The insects' sting is normally no more dangerous than that of their domestic cousins, but, says Terry Lockamy of the Texas Agriculture Extension Service, "these are bees with an attitude problem." They are more aggressive and can attack an intruder by the hundreds, and kill, when their colony is disturbed. The bees' real threat, however, is to the farming and honey industries: Africanized bees are less efficient crop pollinators and honey producers, and could cause multimillion- dollar losses if they infest...