Word: smugglers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...region has been increasing in recent years as drug-runners started moving north to avoid the heat generated by U.S. agents along the nation's southern border. New England's 250 colleges and its average price for pot of $40 per oz. offered an attractive market to smugglers. Says Edward Cass, regional director of the Drug Enforcement Administration: "Someone would buy a boat, pick up a crew at some marina, go down to Jamaica or Colombia and drop a ton of the grass off on the Florida coast, a ton off at the Carolinas, then...
...Jorge Guerrero, 24, is an Ecuadorian who jumped ship in San Francisco at the age of 16. Three years later he was caught and deported. He returned by paying a smuggler $200 and enrolled in a federal job-training program in Massachusetts, hoping to become an engineer. Discovered once again, he is now in jail on a charge of illegal entry. Will he try to come back to the U.S. still another time? "Why not?" he shrugs. "I've nothing to lose...
John Patrick Tully, a pouty, blue-eyed cocaine smuggler and confessed contract murderer, is just the sort of criminal former Philadelphia Superpro-secutor Richard Aurel Sprague loved to put on ice. No longer. In fact, the fighting D.A. is currently serving as Tully's lawyer. Sprague, 50, who gained national fame when he traced the killing of Union Insurgent Joseph ("Jock") Yablonski and his family up a chain of conspiracy until former United Mine Workers President W.A. ("Tony") Boyle was convicted of first-degree murder, has walked through a legal looking glass and emerged as a slugging defense attorney...
Many a tricky wind current swirls about the place and, full moon or no, you really don't want to be swooping around mountainous country in those fragile contraptions. Still, Coburn is a brave fellow, a smuggler by trade, and strongly motivated-the mother having once been his wife and the eldest child being his. He must take what turns out to be a crash course in handling the gliders, and that is funny...
...SMUGGLER'S NOTCH: A smaller, next-door neighbor to Stowe, but a lot like Mad River in that it has a lot to offer despite its size. Some die-hards rate Smuggler's among the best in the East. 240 miles from Boston...