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Imagine ocean waves engulfing the topmost girders of the Eiffel Tower. Imagine Buckingham Palace under water, and St. Peter's too. Well, that is just a joke, a metaphor, but it is what one travel agent thinks of when she looks ahead to the travel season this spring and summer. "Europe is going to sink into the ocean under the sheer weight of American tourists," says Jane Levin of Boston's Garber Travel Agency. "In 24 years in the travel business, I have never seen it so busy so early. It's incredible...
Though the tourist flood will not crest until this summer, TWA agents in New York say their bookings for Super Saver European tours in the first quarter are three times as high as last year's rate. Atlanta's Osborne Travel Agency reports sales running 100% ahead of 1984 for the firm's $4,000 tours and 200% ahead for cheaper excursions. Says the agency's president, Phil Osborne: "Beginning as early as mid-April, people are going to find Europe virtually sold out." By now, the best hotels in Paris and London are all but booked solid...
...arrested, including, it is believed, members of various Mexican police units. The most important catch, however, was Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, 60, known as El Padrino, or the Godfather. He is reputed to be Mexico's leading drug trafficker and a prime suspect in the kidnap-murder of U.S. Narcotics Agent Enrique Camarena Salazar...
Camarena, an agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration, was helping block the narcotics pipeline from Mexico into the U.S. when he and his pilot disappeared on Feb. 7. Last month their battered bodies were found in plastic bags on a ranch outside Guadalajara...
According to Mexican officials, Fonseca told them last week that he had seen Camarena and Caro Quintero at the ranch the day after the kidnapings. Fonseca said that he and Caro Quintero were angry with the agent over a police and army raid on a plantation in Chihuahua, owned by the two drug dealers, in which 8,000 tons of marijuana were burned. Fonseca added that the intention had been to question Camarena and offer him a bribe. He also claimed that he was too drunk to talk to Camarena until the next day, when Caro Quintero allegedly told...