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There was just one little catch. The shop was a sting operation code-named Western Sizzler and run by Birmingham police, and the customers were thieves looking to make a quick buck on stolen goods. Johnny was Johnny Samaniego, 34, a squat, bearded undercover narcotics agent on loan from the Tuscaloosa police department. With his gift for gab, Johnny would lure the thieves into talking about their crimes and giving their names and addresses. "Where did you steal it?" Johnny would ask. Eager to brag, many would supply the full details, even showing off the tools they used...
Last week, after the shop had closed its doors and the sting ended, the arrests started. By Thursday, police had rounded up 37 of 65 suspects, a job made easier by names and addresses the gullible thieves had written at Johnny's request on the checks issued by the shop. The videotape, which can be used in court, was also valuable, showing what Police Chief Arthur Deutsch called "the face of crime...
Although the rest of the ECAC has felt the sting of the B's for awhile, Yale had yet to face a full game's worth of the formidable duo until last night...
With Barakett providing a new sting to the Crimson's offense, it seems unlikely that any team will repel the Cantabs' charge...
...strongly backed U.S. funding of the contra forces opposing the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and lobbied skillfully against the eroding support for it in Congress. His work on the Hill also was influential in saving the MX missile program. He managed to take some of the anti-Soviet sting out of presidential speeches written by Patrick Buchanan, a conservative columnist brought to the White House by Regan. Republican Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, last week called McFarlane "a brilliant, constructive and stabilizing influence in American foreign policy...