Court Opinion

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                                [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]                                [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]                            UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                                FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT                              _________________________          No.  93-1069                              UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,                                      Appellee,                                          v.                        WENDELL ARCHIBOLD BUSCH a/k/a "ARCHI,"                                Defendant, Appellant.                                                                                     _________________________                     APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT                           FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO                   [Hon. Gilberto Gierbolini, U.S. District Judge]                                              ___________________                                                                                     _________________________                                        Before                                Selya, Circuit Judge,                                       _____________                      Aldrich and Coffin, Senior Circuit Judges.                                          _____________________                                                                                     _________________________               Joseph C. Laws, Jr. on brief for appellant.               ___________________               Charles  E. Fitzwilliam, United States Attorney and Jorge E.               _______________________                             ________          Vega-Pacheco,  Assistant United  States  Attorney,  on brief  for          ____________          appellee.                                                                                     _________________________                                  September 14, 1993                                                                                     _________________________                    Per  Curiam.  Having  carefully reviewed the  record of                    Per  Curiam                    ___________          appellant's trial, we are fully satisfied that, taking  the facts          in the light most congenial to the government, as we must on this          appeal, see, e.g.,  United States v. Maraj, 947  F.2d 520, 522-23                  ___  ____   _____________    _____          (1st Cir.  1991), the judge  and jury could  supportably, indeed,          comfortably,  have  found  federal jurisdiction,  guilt,  and  an          absence  of cognizable duress.  Moreover, contrary to appellant's          importuning,  the  acquittal  of  various codefendants  does  not          require a like result  in his case.  See, e.g.,  United States v.                                               ___  ____   _____________          Bucuvalas, 909 F.2d 593, 594-96 (1990).          _________                    We have examined appellant's remaining contentions  and          find them meritless.                    Affirmed.  See 1st Cir. Loc. R. 27.1.                    ________   ___                                          2