Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more prevalent than heroin. Says Lieut. Lawrence Forberg of the Chicago narcotics squad: "I predict it will possibly equal heroin usage." Since first appearing in Chicago during the mid-'70s, Ts and Blues have spread with frightening speed. John Mudri, a Drug Enforcement Administration agent in Detroit, began noticing the combination a little over a year ago in early 1980. Says he: "It rose so rapidly that we got to the point where we couldn't keep up with it." In New Orleans last year, there were 536 arrests related to the drug; 20 deaths, mainly from seizures...
...high-income communities of Silicon Valley, south of San Francisco, have vehemently opposed that approach. Noting that Malathion is suspected by some scientists of causing cancer and birth defects, they raised protest placards at town meetings and wrote angry letters equating the spraying with the use of the defoliant Agent Orange in Southeast Asia. Said Mayor Alan Henderson of Palo Alto, one of the cities that refused to permit the spraying: "This is the strongest outpouring of feeling since the Viet...
...Hunt, 62, who served 33 months in federal prisons, was fined $10,000 for his role in the 1972 Watergate break-in at Democratic National Headquarters, and is now living in Miami Shores, Fla. As a felon, Hunt is barred by law from owning a firearm. The former CIA agent appealed last April to state authorities, telling them he wanted a shotgun to carry on a family tradition -hunting. Last week, the writer and sometime lecturer also declared that he needed a gun to protect his home. Pleaded Hunt: "All of my neighbors are armed. Everyone I know is armed...
Buckley, who bargained with the Patriots without the help of an agent said. "I really didn't feel as though I needed an agent--I figured I'd pat my Harvard education to work and bargain by myself...
...case finally settled and his passport definitely lost, Agee could now be forced to return to the U.S. But last week's setback may do little to slow the ex-agent's campaign; due out this month is his latest book: Philip Agee on the CIA and El Salvador...