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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trying to discredit Ghotbzadeh. They had no official authorization to do anything to me. My wife had been frantically phoning my government sources all evening, and word probably reached my captors that powerful officials were asking after me. Failing to force a confession that would suit their needs, the unknown mullah and his men then simply abandoned me. They left me in the prison, where the authorities did not know who I was or why I was there...
...central figure in the affair is Harold Smith, 37, who has already been dubbed "the black Jesse James" by Don King, a rival boxing impresario. Virtually unknown two years ago, Smith suddenly burst onto the boxing scene in 1979 flashing mysteriously huge sums of cash. As chairman of Muhammad Ali Professional Sports (MAPS), he became almost overnight the leading big-time fight promoter. One of the members of the MAPS board of directors is Benjamin Lewis, 47, who until three weeks ago was an operations officer at a Beverly Hills branch of Wells Fargo and had authority...
...regularly paid fighters six-figure purses. Three weeks ago, however, the ruse unraveled. During some routine accounting work, a bank employee spotted serious irregularities in the records and sounded the alarm. Before the investigation picked up steam, both Smith and Lewis were gone. Smith's whereabouts were unknown at week's end, but TIME has learned that last Wednesday Lewis secretly turned himself in to the Los Angeles office of the FBI. Since then, he has been giving his version of what happened at the bank in the apparent hope of becoming a witness rather than a defendant...
...addition to the complaints, the posters in at least one dormitory were mutilated when an unknown person cut out the pictures. But one LSC member said it was unclear whether the cutting-out was "an organized protest or just someone collecting...
Simply because much of Reagan's package is new and untested, many steadfastly oppose it, offering instead programs which they have seen proven as failures. The unknown can often be frightening, but an America where the ideal of individual liberty has been sacrificed because we lost our courage to innovate is far more terrifying...