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...warehouse in the Colon Free Trade Zone, a busy international transshipment center. There they found 17,000 55-gal. barrels of ether, worth about $1 million and enough to process around 200,000 kilos of cocaine. Both the chemicals and the building were apparently owned by Colombia's Ochoa clan. Shortly afterward, Julian Melo, the general secretary of the Panamanian National Defense Forces High Command, was arrested, accused of allowing the Colombians to transport the ether through the country in exchange for a $2 million bribe. Melo was never prosecuted, however, and many Panamanians assumed that he was merely...
...Reagan's campaign manager, claimed he did not remember any such papers, Baker maintained he had received the documents from Casey. Investigators found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing, but Baker had been put in the position of having to defend his integrity. For a member of a proud, forthright clan, this was excruciating ignominy...
...operation helped relieve his an gina but failed to check the deterioration of his heart; he was forced to retire from his job. Over the next 18 months, his condition continued to deteriorate. In June 1983 he called together some 220 members of the Schroeder clan for a reunion at a local club. Although Schroeder played master of ceremonies and joked with his relatives, the gathering was a kind of farewell party. By this autumn, the once vigorous man was largely bedridden, unable to walk 20 ft. without chest pain and shortness of breath. At night, he would awake gasping...
...left wing secured 40 tickets for his friends and family and the Armstrong clan had a big night at the rink planned, because Armstrong's sister, a champion teenage figure skater, was scheduled to perform between periods of the game...
India's modern military tradition begins, somewhat ironically, after the mid-nineteenth century British conquest of the subcontinent. Before the Imperial era the various Indian nations maintained essentially feudal, personal armies. Each prince, oligarch king, or head of state led armed forces with personal allegiance to, and often clan relationships with, the leader. The "officers" were almost always members of the ruling family or clan...