Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...close their office doors and delegate work to others. Company officers also travel frequently, making it easier to use narcotics on the sly. Chief executives who order up internal investigations of drug problems are often shocked when the trail leads to some of their most trusted aides. Says Special Agent George Miller of the Drug Enforcement Administration: "Companies never think of drug use on the executive level. They always think it's on the assembly line...
...downtown Miami the drug busters have just finished building an ultramodern electronic command post that resembles the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise in Star Trek. Drug agents hover 24 hours a day over four multicolored radar screens that display the entire region's traffic. When authorities spot a suspicious craft, they quickly calculate which law- enforcement boats or planes can make the fastest interception. Then they dispatch the police craft with a state-of-the-art radio network that puts dozens of federal and local agencies on the same wavelength. Customs Service technicians built the system from scratch, starting with...
...busiest new cocaine alley is the 2,100-mile Mexican border. "It's a sieve, and we don't have enough fingers to plug all the holes," says Drexel Watson, a senior special agent for the Customs Service. "More drugs than ever are coming in. It's pretty devastating." Mexico has become a conduit for as much as a third of the South American cocaine entering the U.S. Mexico is also grabbing larger shares of the U.S. markets for heroin and marijuana. Partly because of Mexico's economic woes, struggling farmers have boosted their crops of opium poppies and marijuana...
...scrutiny, "an astronomical amount is getting through," admits Customs District Director Allan Rappoport. Worse still, the so-called mule skinners who are caught with the shipments seldom turn out to be Mr. Big. "The people who drive the vehicles are usually very poor and uneducated," says one U.S. drug agent. "There is so much poverty in Mexico that traffickers have an unlimited labor pool. The drivers almost always keep their mouths shut, since they have been told that their wives and kids will be blown away otherwise...
...guess, there is a great deal of unnecessary filler used to pad the otherwise flat main idea. For example, too much of the plot revolves around Leslie's attempt at cooking dinner for the IRS agent and his would-be mother-in-law (what else would a wife do?). The dish, 'mung-chowder gumbo' is like much of the play's intended humor--it never materializes. Aside from the failed attempts at comedy, the play strives to excite some reaction from an otherwise limp audience with a series of sexist jokes. Lines such as "you're my kind of woman...