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Trevino, no lightweight himself, is out of the van and running a couple of hours later when a gang of smugglers has been tracked to a mesquite thicket. Suddenly shots ring out and bullets buzz overhead. There is shouting in English and Spanish. One armed suspect has been shot in the arm and another captured unhurt along with a dozen bags of marijuana, worth about $250,000 in south Texas (and about twice that in New York). Judging by the haul recovered from the brush, eight or nine other "mules" made it back to the river. It is the third...
Working undercover for two years, Customs agents infiltrate a drug ring, then stage a Florida wedding to nab bankers who allegedly operate on both sides of the law. "Welcome to Tampa," said one agent to a suspect. "You' re under arrest." The probe was called Operation C- Chase, for the $100 bills that are the denomination of choice in drug deals...
...seventh inning, and the bleacher creatures join in paying homage to Sox ace reliever Lee Smith. They bow as Smith saunters confidently from the dugout to the bullpen. Chants of "Lee, Lee" ring through the air as the 6-ft., 6-in. demi-god, hardly acknowledging the adulation and screaming of his worshippers, strolls...
Farr wasn't in, and next door a man was veryinvolved with a ring and a five foot talloxyacetalyne blow torch, So I went down the hallto Taber Fowley, Wholesalers and Jobbers.Cardboard boxes were hanging haphazardly off rowsof wooden shelves; a huge iron safe, with goldgilt, was piled up with ragged-edged ledgers.Behind the counter was a tiny old man with a bluev-neck sweater and tufts of silver hair in hisears; he was looking through a pince-nez at abracelet...
...tells the crowd of about 100, old and young, black and white. "Five out of six prigs that were active in 1981 are now inactive." Yes . . . Yes! some exclaim. "The Reagan-Bush Administration's energy policy has been as empty as Dan Quayle's resume." A few yee-his ring out. But when Bentsen segues to Dukakis and the Massachusetts Miracle, the crowd becomes silent. After the speech, an old woman in a faded sundress who works for the county's Democratic Party sounds downright gloomy. "It used to be all Democratic here," she says. "Now there...