Word: benedicts
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...winter light is already dim, and in a Manhattan cafe the blond girl is squirming in her seat, dying for a smoke. The cigarette machine is broken. "This is like a joke," she says, annoyed, and leaves her plate of eggs Benedict to bum a Marlboro from one of the other diners. Smoking happily at last, she gives a quick account of herself, sounding bored beyond her years. She dropped out of high school four years ago, at 15, and has no job and no firm idea of what she will do next. She likes to stay up until...
...Sheraton Plaza's Room 501, a glass-divided minisuite, the C.I. and the ubiquitous FBI cameras were waiting when Hetrick arrived at 4 p.m. Benedict assured Hetrick that the $1.8 million would be in the room shortly. Hetrick said he was "ready to go." It was not until 7:45 p.m., however, that yet another self-styled drug distributor, actually DEA Agent Gerald Scotti, arrived with Vicenza. Hetrick was wary, but in Scotti's briefcase, which was placed on a Plexiglas coffee table, was a vast amount of cash...
Other agents had been following Hetrick. He was now dining with Benedict...
...Lorean went directly, and unsuspectingly, to well-wired Room 501 at the Sheraton Plaza. Waiting were the Government's trio: the C.I., Benedict and Vicenza. One of them showed De Lorean a suitcase containing 20 kilos of coke. De Lorean picked up one bag and said, "It's as good as gold and just in the nick of time." Actually it was too late. Only hours earlier, the British government had closed De Lorean's plant in Northern Ireland (see following story...
...Lorean's astonishment, Benedict and Vicenza abruptly broke the light mood by announcing that they were federal agents. They told De Lorean he was under arrest. One of them read him his constitutional rights. Recalled an FBI official: "He was calmer than they had expected him to be." De Lorean was hustled into an unmarked federal car, booked at the downtown Los Angeles jail and led to a six-prisoner cell...