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Feeling the recession's sting...
...part of an FBI sting operation from 1977 until 1980, Livingston used the alias "Pat Salamone" while masquerading as a Miami pornography distributor. He hobnobbed with gangsters, buying their smut, counterfeit Hollywood films and even 50 submachine guns. The sting ended in 54 arrests, but for Livingston the charade had become muddled with reality. He kept bank accounts in his pseudonym and introduced himself regularly as Pat Salamone. According to Fred Schwartz, the Assistant U.S. Attorney prosecuting the sting defendants, Livingston has "psychiatric problems that make it difficult for him to distinguish between his real identity and his undercover identity...
...sting's targets have been convicted so far. Some of the other defendants cite Livingston's seeming mental problems in their defense. The shoplifting charges against Livingston were dropped, and he is now posted to the FBI office in Chicago. He returns periodically to Miami to testify against his dupes...
Death has no sting. It is the custom for an Enu to go out of sight to die-conveniently underground. From sheer boredom the inhabitants invent their wars, like board games. They do not even care if they win. Winning can be a problem. "Win a war and you have to make the enemy do your will," the Enu Defense Minister complains. "What will? We have no will. We even lack a will to live. We no longer need...
...meet and merge. But don't look for it; the island exists only in the febrile imaginings of Gerald Durrell. The author of some 15 nature and travel books is unlikely to threaten the reputation of his brother Novelist Lawrence Durrell (The Alexandria Quartet). But there is a sting in his tale of The Mockery Bird, and a pawky satire familiar to viewers of such politi cal cartoons as The Mouse That Roared...