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...green light" to smuggle cocaine into the U.S., provided that he let them use Norman Cay, a Bahamian island he owned, to move guns to the contras. U.S. sources deny that such an offer was made but confirm that Lehder approached an American consular official and an agent of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and tried to sell them the island for use as a drug-interdiction post...
...missing an opportunity. Almost three years before the collapse of the corrupt Bank of Credit & Commerce International, the Justice Department failed to pursue evidence that the institution was involved in a whole network of nefarious activities. That was the Senate testimony last week of Robert Mazur, a federal undercover agent who said prosecutors ignored "hundreds of leads" and failed to exploit 100,000 documents seized in a 1988 money- laundering crackdown on B.C.C.I.'s Florida branch. The investigation, in which five B.C.C.I. officers were arrested at a phony "bachelor party" for Mazur, led to prison sentences for the executives...
...Canterbury and the last British captive in Lebanon. But as bells joyously tolled his freedom, the homecoming unleashed feverish speculation about the role the U.S. -- and maybe Waite himself -- had played in his capture. Did Waite know of Washington's secret arms dealings? And was he a willing agent, or an unwitting collaborator? Before his capture, Waite denied any knowledge of the U.S. arms-for-hostages scheme...
...agent of disaster is a 3-mm (one-tenth-in.) insect known to scientists as the poinsettia strain of the sweet-potato whitefly but to farmers as the Superbug. Millions of these voracious insects have spread over the Imperial Valley, massing on the undersides of leaves and sucking plants dry, weakening or killing them in the process. Farmers first noticed the flies getting worse in July, and by September swarms of them looked like white clouds. They covered windshields and got stuck between people's teeth. Farm workers had trouble inhaling and eventually had to wear masks. Not since...
...which was stolen in 1969 from the Oratory of San Lorenzo in Palermo, Sicily. Investigators in Britain are now convinced that the painting, worth about $50 million today, has been used by the Mafia as security for drug deals over the past 20 years. Kenneth Klug, a deputy special agent for the U.S. Customs Service, says his agency is "sure" that drug lords in Colombia's Medellin cartel "have priceless works of stolen art hanging in their villas...