Word: bags
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Peru I bought 2 kilos [4.4 Ibs.] of coke [cocaine] for $10,000. Four hours later I was on a flight to Mexico City. After landing, I breezed through passport control. The customs officer cleared my first bag without giving me any trouble, and I thought I was free-on my way home to the U.S. Then he drew out a measuring stick and found that the inside of my second suitcase didn't correspond with the outside. I was invited to a little room where they ripped out the bottom of the suitcases and discovered my haul...
Pamplona's hotels had been reserved far in advance, so that I had little choice but to join the crowd sleeping in the park located next to the bullring. I unrolled my sleeping bag and arranged my sweater into a makeshift pillow. I took off my pants, which contained my wallet, passport, traveller's checks, and train pass, and put them into my knapsack, which I placed a half-foot from my head. The wine had made my head heavy, and I was out like a light. Around 4:30 a.m. I awoke with a start and, after, shaking...
...took me two and a half hours to get up enough nerve to wrap my sleeping bag around my thighs and venture into the city to look for a cop who might be able to help me. This was 7:00 a.m., the precise time the bulls are run through the streets, and everyone was gathered around the bullring in anticipation. I swallowed my embarrassment at my rather unflattering outfit and began asking policemen outside the arena if they understood English or French. They would just stare at me, point at my legs, and laugh, "Pantalones! Pantalones...
...Flatbush re-create the oleaginous pompadours and switchblade rhetoric of the Shook-Up Epoch. In affluent circles there are Fabulous '50s parties: the debutantes rigged out in calf-length skirts and open-toed, high-heeled numbers, and their dates in narrow ties and pink shirts and trousers that bag at the ankle...
...Security Division, to get the data from William Sullivan at the FBI. According to FBI interviews of Mardian, he showed the materials to Kissinger, Haldeman and Alexander Haig, Kissinger's assistant. Then, he says, he delivered the files to the Oval Office. Mardian was asked: "Did you give the bag [containing the wiretap files] to Mr. Nixon, the President of the United States?" His reply: "I cannot answer that question...