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Indian, to help them salvage the booty and thwart the Mob. But while they are feverishly scooping up drug ampules, they discover greater treasure: a chest of priceless jewelry once intended for the mistress of King Philip V of Spain...
...combat organized crime. He also notes how the FBI has failed to halt growing white collar crime. The Agency remains no threat to embezzlers, government swindlers, and stock manipulators. And then, in what is probably the most searing blow for the bureau, Ungar attacks the organization for failing to thwart increasing domestic terrorism. He describes an intelligence organization that is curiously incapable of penetrating the radical underground, that needs 19 months to track down a kidnapped heiress in California...
...given the option of arranging a switch with someone assigned to another House, even though that switch would leave both parties at least slightly happier than they are at present. The result is a situation where no attempt is made to minimize discontent and every attempt is made to thwart the student's freedom...
Moments later, Jim Michelson made a fine save in goal to thwart a Princeton scoring bid. The two teams battledfuriously in the mud for the rebound, but the ground ball went to Kevin McCall, who charged upfield on the fast break...
...Russian tanks." Aided by hidden arms caches, Savimbi's guerrillas last week ambushed several Soviet trucks and troop carriers. With seemingly solid support from the 2 million-strong southern Ovimbundu tribe (out of a total Angolan population estimated to be 5.5 million), Savimbi has the potential to thwart M.P.L.A. control over nearly half the country...