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Evangelist Jerry Falwell set up a toll-free telephone number a decade ago so followers could dial in to hear his inspirational messages and be massaged for donations. Things were heavenly until Atlanta's Edward Johnson, who holds a grudge against television evangelists, programmed his Atari to dial Falwell's number every 30 seconds. In December, Southern Bell got Johnson to deprogram his computer, but publicity over the incident inspired other Falwell foes to dial away. Among the harassers: homosexuals angered at Falwell's crusade against them. Some 25% of the 1 million toll-free calls a year were coming...
RICO has been used to imprison the chief mobsters of Los Angeles, Cleveland and New Orleans and to charge leaders of major crime families in New York City. Add to that toll the Angiulos, whose fretting about RICO was recorded in 1981, along with a lot more incriminating material. Last week, after an eight- month trial, the four brothers and an associate were sentenced to varying prison terms and fines, with Gennaro Angiulo drawing 45 years and $120,000. Using the umbrella RICO statute rather than just a series of specific offenses, said Prosecutor Jeremiah O'Sullivan, meant the jury...
Uncharacteristically, the Nicaraguan government also admitted that the Popular Sandinista Army had losses. "The E.P.S. suffered 156 casualties, among them 40 dead, 116 wounded," read its communique. The contras put the Sandinista death toll at 200 and their...
Exclamation points and toll-free telephone numbers were sprouting last week like the most impatient blossoms of spring. Banks, brokerages and other financial organizations sprinkled them across their newspaper ads, pasted them up in their windows and posted them on billboards. In an extravaganza that gets noisier every year, the institutions were making their last-minute pitches to lure millions of consumers who were shopping for investment vehicles for their individual retirement accounts...
...They were knocking on the door a few times, and finally they broke it in," Harvard Coach John Wentzell said. "They were hitting it where we weren't, and eventually that's going to take its toll...