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§ 1343. Fraud by wire, radio, or television
Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce, any writings, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both. If the violation affects a financial institution, such person shall be fined not more than $1,000,000 or imprisoned not more than 30 years, or both.
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felony murder doctrine
a rule of criminal statutes that any death which occurs during the commission of a felony is first degree murder, and all participants in that felony or attempted felony can be charged with and found guilty of murder. A typical example is a robbery involving more than one criminal, in which one of them shoots, beats to death or runs over a store clerk, killing the clerk. Even if the death were accidental, all of the participants can be found guilty of felony murder, including those who did no harm, had no gun, and/or did not intend to hurt anyone.
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Felony Murder Doctrine
The felony murder rule is a legal doctrine current in some common law countries that broadens the crime of murder in two ways. First, when a victim dies accidentally or without specific intent in the course of an applicable felony, it increases what might have been manslaughter (or even a simple tort) to murder. Second, it makes any participant in such a felony criminally responsible for any deaths that occur during or in furtherance of that felony.
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RUBIO, Marco, (1971 - )
RUBIO, Marco, a Senator from Florida; born in Miami, Fla., May 28, 1971
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AMBUSH IN MOGADISHU
September 29, 1998 (Original broadcast date)
"Ambush in Mogadishu" tells the story of the most violent U.S. combat firefight since Vietnam. On October 3, 1993 elite units of the U.S. Army's Rangers and Delta Force were ambushed by Somali men, women and children armed with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades. The Rangers were pinned down in the most dangerous part of Mogadishu, Somalia and taking casualties. What had started out as an operation to capture warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid--turned into a tragic firefight that lasted seventeen hours, left eighteen Americans dead, eighty four wounded and continues to haunt the U.S. military
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John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums (1966)
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Sunday, August 21, 1994
Classic Clancy -- Jack Ryan Returns, And The Bad Guy This Time Is Japan
By Melinda Bargreen
"Debt of Honor" by Tom Clancy Putnam, $25.95
He's back!
Yes, all you fans of "The Hunt for Red October," "Patriot Games," and the rest of Tom Clancy's bestselling techno-thrillers. Clancy's newest, "Debt of Honor," is poised to assault bestseller lists yet again - not as a submarine, silent and stealthy, but as a nuclear warhead, the same kind that the Japanese are . . . oops!
We don't want to give away the plot here, though there is plenty of plot to give away, in what is probably Clancy's most complicated and ambitious international potboiler yet.
After the mean-spirited and sadistic "Without Remorse," it's a relief to have that novel's claustrophobic atmosphere lifted in a novel that will be long remembered for its energy and exuberance. Unfortunately, "Debt of Honor" also will be remembered for its xenophobia. Japanese villainy - corporate, political and military - is the central threat here, and there are so many racial slurs that you may think you're reading World War II propaganda.
Back in the land of acronyms
We're also back in the world of Clancy's favorite military-bureaucratic abbreviations: CINCPACFLT and ComSubPac and SSNs and ICBMs and ADCAPs, all rallying like mad to save America once again. So are the heroes of Clancy novels past, including the indomitable Jack Ryan, submariners Mancuso and Jones, and a certain mysterious CIA operative named John Clark, the alias of one of Clancy's favorite protagonists.
Clancy balances his politically incorrect plot by bringing in large numbers of women in key positions, from Ryan's prize-winning surgeon wife to important submarine and CIA operatives. The women are mostly paper figures, however, there just to provide feminine pronouns.
What sets this all in motion is a land purchase by a Japanese businessman named Yamata. With nice economy of structure, Clancy makes this purchase the subject of his first sentence: "In retrospect, it would seem an odd way to start a war."
It certainly would, except that by the time you've followed Clancy's line of reasoning through hundreds and hundreds of densely plotted pages, it doesn't seem odd at all; indeed, it makes sense.
Nobody, but nobody, is better than Clancy at the "gathering storm" technique of thriller fiction. Like a master chef, he starts simmering one pot after another on a vast stove-full of burners, returning occasionally for an adroit stir of the action in the nuclear sub, or the Japanese baths, or the international currency market - even the inner sanctum of the Oval Office.
Yes, it is the president, the well-meaning but militarily inexperienced President Durlin - any echoes, here? - who calls Ryan off the golf course and into action as national security adviser. And Ryan proceeds to advise like crazy, treading where the president will not dare, juggling coups in Africa and on the New York Stock Exchange, as well as all the other battle stations of air, land and sea.
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THE MEDIA BUSINESS; As Autumn Nears, Publishers Brace for a Glut of Big-Name Titles
By SARAH LYALL
Published: Monday, August 22, 1994
August is a slow and languorous month for publishing. Employees go on vacation, new books are released in a trickle and most companies in New York close at lunchtime every Friday so the editors can head for the Hamptons.
But this is the calm before the storm, because publishers are actually resting up for the big fall season. Autumn for publishing is like summer is for Hollywood: it is the time when many of the year's splashiest titles are released, bookstores are full of customers and everyone in the industry hopes to find a hit that will carry through until Christmas.
The months between September and December are always crowded with new books by big authors, and this year, booksellers and publishers say, the season looks to be particularly full. A Flood of Titles
The rush has already started with Tom Clancy, whose latest book, "Debt of Honor," has been shipped by its publisher, G. P. Putnam's Sons. The enormous first printing of two million copies began reaching stores Wednesday.
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MON 08/08/1994
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Another Clancy tale
If the ground rumbles Aug. 17, it may be because an estimated 2 million copies of Tom Clancy's new yarn, "Debt of Honor" (Putnam), are scheduled to be laid down in stores. The novel, which received a starred rave in last week's Publishers Weekly, puts the hero, Jack Ryan, in a war of wills set off by what the reviewer calls "a power-hungry Japanese financier."
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Debt of Honor
Debt of Honor (1994) is a novel by Tom Clancy. It is a continuation of the series featuring his character Jack Ryan. In this installment, Ryan has become the National Security Advisor when the Japanese government (controlled by a group of corporate tycoons known as the Zaibatsu) goes to war with the United States.
The Japanese plan has three major components. First, units of Japan's Self-Defense Forces occupy the Marianas Islands, specifically Saipan and Guam. The invasion, conducted with commercial airliners, is virtually bloodless. Meanwhile, during a joint military exercise, Japanese ships "accidentally" launch torpedoes at two of the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Fleet aircraft carriers and two submarines at the conclusion of a joint U.S.-Japan naval exercise, destroying both submarines and crippling the carriers. This drastically reduces the U.S. capability to project power into the western Pacific.
An immediate retaliation is forestalled by the second element of the Japanese plan: an economic attack. Even as the military mission begins, the Japanese cabal engineers the collapse of the American stock market by exploiting flaws in the program trading systems at major brokerages, and then deletes all trade records. With a massive economic crisis, and panic and chaos in America's homeland, it is hoped that America will be too distracted to quickly respond to Japan's military adventures.
Japan immediately sues for a peaceful settlement, offering international talks and seemingly free elections in the Marianas, in attempt to stall and delay an American military response. Negotiators also secretly reveal to the Americans that Japan has obtained nuclear ballistic missile capability.
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ON THIS DAY 26 February
1991: Iraqi troops flee Kuwait City
The Kuwaiti capital has been liberated by the Gulf War Allies after 208 days of Iraqi occupation.
Thousands of Iraqi troops began leaving the city after an order from President Saddam Hussein, broadcast this morning, to withdraw immediately.
He said he was ordering the retreat because of "the aggression of 30 countries against Iraq" and the economic blockade led by the US.
The first group of Allies into the city centre was a reconnaissance team of 12 US marines who arrived in the capital this evening, ushered in by some Kuwaiti resistance forces.
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BIDEN, Joseph Robinette, Jr., (1942 - )
BIDEN, Joseph Robinette, Jr., a Senator from Delaware and a Vice President of the United States; born in Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pa., November 20, 1942
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Fires STILL raging at stricken Fukushima nuclear reactor one month after it was destroyed by tsunami
By Richard Shears
Last updated at 5:00 PM on 12th April 2011
Situation at nuclear plant raised to crisis level 7 - the highest category
Spread of radioactive particles is 'out of control'
Further earthquakes could worsen problems at the Fukushima plant
Total radiation released 'could exceed Chernobyl', officials admit
Magnitude 6.3 aftershock hit this morning, biggest since March 11 disaster
Fires continue to break out at the tsunami-devastated nuclear power plant ahead of the crisis level being raised to 7 with one raging in a building close to one of the reactors.
As workers continue to battle in vain to bring the situation under control at the Fukushima plant, a blaze was discovered in a room filled with batteries close to No 4 unit.
Japanese officials admitted today that the spread of radiation from its crippled nuclear plant was out of control and that the government had raised the crisis level to the worst on the international scale.
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Death on a Fast Horse (1974)
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The Cowboys (TV series 1974)
Death on a Fast Horse (#1.2)
Release Date: 13 February 1974 (USA)
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28 December 1999
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Jack Carlton Moore
"Debt of Honor" [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
"A Jack Ryan Novel"
Tom Clancy
BERKLEY paperback 1994
$8.99 U.S.
Page 966
"I understand congratulations are in order," Roger Durling said.
"Huh?" The National Security Advisor hadn't heard yet.
"Jack, I, uh, got the Lasker," Cathy said from her seat across the table.
"Well, that's two in your family who're the best around," Al Trent observed, saluting with his wineglass.
"And this one's for you, Jack," the President said, lifting his glass. "After all the grief I've gotten on foreign affairs, you've saved me, and you've saved a lot of other things. Well done, Mister Dr. Ryan."
Jack nodded at the toast, but this time he knew. He'd been around Washington long enough, finally, to hear the falling sandbag. The trouble was that he didn't know exactly why it was falling toward his head.
"Mr. President, the satisfaction comes from - well, from service, I guess. Thanks for trusting me, and thanks for putting up with me when I -"
"Jack, people like you, well, where would our country be?" Durling turned. "Cathy, do you know everything Jack has done over the years?"
"Jack? Tell me secrets?" She had a good laugh at that.
"Al?"
"Well, Cathy, it's time you learned," Trent observed, much to Jack's discomfort.
"There is one thing I've always wondered about," she said at once. "I mean, you two are so friendly, but the first time you two met several years ago, I -"
"The dinner, the one before Jack flew off to Moscow?" Trent took a sip of the California chardonnay. "That was when he set up the defection of the head of the old KGB."
"What?
"Tell the story, Al, we have lots of time," Durling urged. His wife, Anne, leaned in to hear this one, too. Trent ended up speaking for twenty minutes, telling more than one old tale in the process despite the look on Jack's face.
"That's the sort of husband you have, Dr. Ryan," the President said said when the stories were ended.
Jack looked over at Trent now, a rather intense stare. What was at the end of this?
"Jack, your country needs you for one last thing, and then we'll let you go," the Congressman said.
"What's that?" Please, not an ambassadorship, he thought, the usual kiss-off for a senior official.
Durling set his glass down. "Jack, my main job for the next nine months is to get reelected. It might be a tough campaign, and it's going to absorb a lot of my time under the best of circumstances. I need you on the team."
"Sir, I already am -"
"I want you to be my Vice President," Durling said calmly. The room got very quiet then. "The post is vacant as of today, as you know. I'm not sure yet who I want for my second term, and I am not suggesting that you fill the post for more than - what? Not even eleven months. Like Rockefeller did for Gerry Ford. I want somebody whom the public respects, somebody who can run the shop for me when I'm away. I need somebody heavy in foreign affairs.
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