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...They were very nice people who always treated me like a gentleman," the former bank teller told a reporter last week. The retiree acknowledged cutting some legal corners when dealing with members of a reputed Mob family who made unusually large cash deposits. Said he: "What are you going to do, give them the third degree?" Boston's First National Bank, his former employer, no doubt wishes the teller had done just that. Two congressional panels are probing the banking company (assets: $21 billion), suspecting that it has been involved, perhaps unwittingly, in money laundering, the booming illegal business...
...geosynchronous variety, and of almost unimaginable perfection; the slightest pitting or warping could cause a laser beam to scatter. Chemical lasers would need aiming mirrors (diameter: 30 ft.) atop their satellites too, and those mirrors would also have to be just about perfect. Star Wars Supporter Edward Teller considers fleets of laser satellites and orbiting mirrors too expensive to make chemical or excimer lasers practicable for missile defense...
That leaves X-ray lasers, which are being investigated under tight secrecy at the Livermore Laboratory. Grumbles Teller: "Methods that have real expectations of success are classified, and methods that have little possibility of success are advertised...
...President was instinctively sympathetic to the arguments of Edward Teller and other outside advocates of new defensive systems. But both the Defense and State Departments were wedded to traditional deterrence. Giving new emphasis to a defensive policy would be wrenching, and Reagan's then National Security Adviser, William Clark, was loath to upset his "client" bureaucracies. Thus when Teller obtained an audience with Reagan on Sept. 14, ) 1982, Clark attended as devil's advocate. He posed skeptical questions that tended to undercut the scientist's presentation...
...Payment for the checks included $250,000 in cash. According to the Boston Globe, the branch gave cash-reporting exemptions to the two companies allegedly connected with the Angiulos. Such exemptions are usually granted to small businesses like grocery stores that handle lots of bills. A retired First National teller said last week that the Angiulos frequently brought in paper bags stuffed with money...