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ABSCAM — Part 8
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tado Sr. was “concerned” when oi -.
. ficers told him that his 62-year-old
sister Zelda’s 1978 Pontiac had
een found ina Milpitas park with
‘@ woman's body in the trunk. “°°.
And when Furtado learned that
. the body indeed was Zelda's -- and
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Social .
Security cards — dubbed “the key ,
to the kingdom”. by investigators *
— are commoaly counterfeited or -
tolen for use by illegal aliens to
fits,
a cage to prot
pents.
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‘pound green eyes, Furtado thrust
at’ police believed his own 16- .
year-old son, Donald Jr., had mur.
— SocialSecurity card
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| @>:: jobs and collect unearned bene-_
| Cobra’s gem »
|_| safe in heist
ely sa bya vena cra pl
a 383-carat sapphire worth
$1.82 million, stole four less expensive stones
in wdjoining showcascs unprotected by ser-
RP EREAIW beked arrose
- “Pit tell you the whole thing: I
* won't add, I won't take away,” the
Id retired farmer said.
toothless man with blazing,
an accusing finger toward the
trailer that had been his sister's
- home,
The General Accounting Office
. estimates the scandal costs lux-
: payers $15 billion a year in bene-
fits paid to unqualified applicants.
:* Federal employces and private
_eltizens, such as travel agents, ped-
die the cards for up to $260 each to
pointing and stamping his fool.
“Eighty percent of it. ... I tell
you, my sister's gone, I will say the
truth,” he said. “My sister did not
use good judgment. You can take
the best animal in the world. But if
you attack that animal day after
day, one day it will surely attack
thousands of undocumented aliens
who use them to get jobs, accord-
ing to government investigators.
Illegals also are known to use
the cards fraudulently to collect
unemployment and welfare
food stamps and retire-
checks,
instruinent oulside her Waser in
Fremont. Reports submitted by
the officers who arrested him say
the body later was wrapped in
blankets and dumped jn the trunk
of her cream-colored car. Both car
and corpse were abandoned in Ed
Levin Park in Milpitas, 10 miles
s — key to kingdom
ment benefits.
US. citizens capitalize as well
on loose distribution of the cards,
by sometimes collecting unem-
ployment checks with one card
Back of Section, Col. 1
Crash kills -
spot where the car was. tus.
nesses sald there wes @
Davidson tattoo — “Live .
— Ride to Live’ ~— on &
arm.
Two weeks ago, Supena
Judge Lawrence Terry [6ui
tado unfit to be tried in t!.
nile court system. A f
charge was refiled in Sant. +
County Municipal Court, 3
tado was arraigned there *.
terward. He was transferr: -
Juvenile Hall to the Sant.
County Main Jail, with bai
$100,000. He was schedule:
/ ter a plea today.
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, bly-line worker at an Oak:
’ company, bought a whits: |
last fall. She moved it onic
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’ Portugal, had bought in !
~had bequeathed to her :
- brother.
After Zelda had move. |
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CLEVELAND (UPI) — The
leader of the Air Force Thunder-
birds aerobatics team was killed
today i: the crash of his T-38 Talon.
jet, which exploded in a “ball of
fire” on takeoff from Burke Lake-
front Airport and skidded into
Lake Erie.
Authorities said both the pilot,
picket fence around he 5).
~~ separating it from the
; redwood house. At rot
* same time, Donald Jr. me |
“sa tiny room on the sidtt:
‘ house. His doubis-loct.:
~z.stood only 20 fect from '"
fence.
“At first, it. was pert:
father sald. “But then, abe
Officials ‘said the four ‘blue sapphires, val-
ued at $25,000, disappered during’a tour by
schoolchildren of the $19.8-million exhibit at
the Comménwealth Institute organized by the
Sri Lankan.high commission. The theft was
disclosed Monday, 7
“It's a pity we didn't have poisonous snakes
in the other ‘cases,”.,a high commission -
spokesman sald.) v0 fo
“The locks of the case were intact when the -
Thunderbirds commander-leader
Lt. Col. D.L. Smith, and his crew
chief, Staff Sgt. Dwight Roberts,
ejected from the flaming jet before
it crashed into the lake.
Smith, 40, of Rossville, Ga.,
commander of the performing
squadron for three years, was dead
on arrival at St. Vincent Charity
Hospital. Roberts’ injuries were
nervous, getting irritates.
A short-haired, husk:
who had no children ii
married, Zelda kept to her
avoided most of the Furt::
ly, according to Donali =:
Rosemary. At the sai
Rosemary said, the boy's i
to haranguing him, kee
sapphires were discovered missing, so we
believe the thief had a key,” an official sald. undisclosed. over his door and chi:
The nearly 5-foot-long cobra was Installed : ae Mike Barth, airport deputy com- TON roan avon ste “
: 7 “of. thé exhibition ‘to pro et — i Hummel Nev missioner, who saw the crash, said: an Slope |
at the outset of the, exhibition to protect the : Jim Humm ews Mtslcidded about 3,500 fect Jiane room — she'd attack him
‘ , , the runway. Jt was a ball of fire all
the way down the runway.”
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