Sport: Double Trouble

Scandals rock New Mexico

The search that produced such startling "results began routinely enough when investigators of the New Mexico Organized Crime Strike Force, a special state investigative unit, started looking into underworld activities. The allegations that developed were both dismaying and frightening. They involved a college basketball scandal, which was bad enough, but last week TIME learned that the agents also discovered that gamblers had used a computer to do their bookkeeping—and that the computer was owned by Sandia Laboratories, a supposedly supersecret contractor that makes nuclear weapons.

The agents got wind...

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