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various assignments for the Navy several times per year, and
working for a publishing company developing manuscripts for
publication.
Petitioner is also a published author. Between 1971 and
1983, petitioner published at least three reference books.2
Petitioner received about $1,000 for his work on his last book in
1983. Since then, petitioner has written manuscripts on
philosophy, religion, logic, and politics, but none of them have
been published. Petitioner submitted one manuscript for
publication, but it was not accepted. None of his other
manuscripts were submitted for publication. Petitioner believed
that he had difficulty getting his books published because he was
unable to reestablish a publishing contact, after his previous
contact passed away in 1983 or 1984.
During 1993, in addition to the above activities, petitioner
worked with a company called Professional Foreclosure Services
(PFS) on a project “to acquire real estate for the purpose of
providing a place for people who were recovering alcoholics or
who were battered women”. Petitioner envisioned that he could
raise enough money to purchase real estate and establish a
homeless shelter. Petitioner’s arrangement with PFS was that it
was to purchase and maintain the property and petitioner was to
2 The titles of these books are The New Dictionary of
Existentialism, Dictionary of American Philosophy, and Exorcism
Through the Ages.
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