Word: smugglers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emerging "drug exception" to the Fourth Amendment ban on unreasonable searches and seizures -- a willingness by courts, where drugs are concerned, to permit searches they might otherwise disallow. In recent years, for example, the Supreme Court has allowed expanded use of so-called drug-courier profiles -- descriptions of a smuggler's characteristic behavior and appearance -- as a basis upon which to stop and question suspects, despite complaints that such profiles give police license to stop blacks and Hispanics. It has also upheld the right of police to inspect a drug suspect's garbage without a warrant. "There is a sense...
...drug drop. DEPOSIT CONTRABAND HERE BEFORE YOU ENTER THE UNITED STATES reads a sign in language that seems more suitable for an antilittering campaign. The lock on the mailbox is rusty, and a spider has built a formidable web over the chute where any law-abiding, English-speaking drug smuggler would drop his neat little packet of cocaine or heroin. While the mailbox is an extreme example of bureaucratic wishful thinking, the larger U.S. approach to the problem often seems little more sophisticated...
...itinerant sorcerer and healer who travels to a remote village and falls victim to the dark powers that have supported him in his trade. The House Friend features a young man in a Warsaw cafe listening to an older man recount his amorous adventures with married women. The Smuggler describes a visitor with some books to be autographed who pays a call on a writer in his New York City apartment and reveals, with hardly any prodding at all, some secrets...
...ambulance from nearby Rio Grande City arrives for the wounded man. The other captured smuggler is taken off in a truck. Laurel issues new orders to his men, then reflects on the night's events. "I don't like it when the shooting starts," he says. "Your luck has got to run out sometime...
Those who play along are well cared for. Steven Kalish, a convicted U.S. drug smuggler who was the chief witness against Noriega in the Tampa indictment, says he personally delivered at least $900,000 in bribes to the general in 1983 and 1984. In exchange, says Kalish, Noriega gave him a diplomatic passport, a multimillion-dollar letter of credit and safe passage for hundreds of thousands of pounds of marijuana...