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Pursuing a "buy-bust" strategy against individual dealers, agents have proved adept at going under cover and making arrests. But the DEA has not had enough accountants and skilled investigators to unravel the major international drug rings. Today there are four times more heroin addicts in the U.S. than there were when the agency was created in 1973, and this is directly contributing to the surge in violent crime. Indeed, the alarming trend may accelerate: a new jolt of heroin from the poppy fields of "the Golden Crescent"-Iran, Iraq and Pakistan-is starting to flood the East Coast...
...pencil early to assume the role of a demanding, inspiring editor. Though Walt tended to get the credit for everything that came out of the studio, its style was really the creation of many artists, each one honing a speciality. Ward Kimball, Les Clark and Frank Thomas were particularly adept at complicated fast-moving action sequences, while Art Babbitt concentrated on large, slow, furry creatures like Goofy and the Big Bad Wolf. Grim Natwick, who created Betty Boop for another studio, was the early specialist in femininity. Eric Larson's skill with cute round little animals contrasted nicely with...
That $10,000 has become $10 million in Merrill Lynch stock." A tough-minded ex-Marine known for adept planning and visionary thinking, Regan rose steadily through the executive suites to become chairman of Merrill Lynch...
...reaction of world leaders went far beyond the official statements of condolences that their aides have become so unhappily adept at phrasing. Said Reagan: "I'll pray for him." Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev cabled the Pope: "I am profoundly indignant at the criminal attempt on your life." Dismayed West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt exclaimed: "I feel I've been hit in the abdomen myself...
Weinberger may yet turn out to be a politically adept complement to Haig as a spokesman for the Administration's tough foreign and military posture. He has the bureaucratic and managerial talents to carry out Reagan's mandate to improve the country's defenses. But Weinberger has some distance to go. On several occasions he has compared his present job with his last Cabinet post, as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Richard Nixon. As Cap puts it: "The difference is that at HEW you could afford a mistake...