Word: bonners
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...drug sold in Europe. The Cali godfathers have a virtual lock on the global wholesale market in the most lucrative commodity ever conceived by organized crime. The cartel is the best and brightest of the modern underworld: professional, intelligent, efficient, imaginative and nearly impenetrable. Says Robert Bonner, administrator of the DEA: "The Cali cartel is the most powerful criminal organization in the world. No drug organization rivals them today or perhaps any time in history...
...modern history's essential humanism. In Memoirs Sakharov told the story of his early life, his involvement in the development of the U.S.S.R.'s nuclear arsenal and his transformation, in the 1960s, into a leading Soviet dissident. The first book also documented Sakharov and his second wife Elena Bonner's internal exile in Gorky and their persistent struggles for human rights despite KGB harassment...
...nation. But it is not clear whether the increases reflect actual supply shortages or price gouging by traffickers playing on consumer fears. Los Angeles defense attorney David Kenner, who represents many alleged traffickers, maintains that "all the interdiction efforts do is keep profit margins high for the cartels." Robert Bonner, head of the DEA, warns against complacency: "There have been some rays of hope, but I'm not sure we are at the end of the beginning. I think we are still at the beginning...
...Soviet newspaper called that award "political pornography," and a statement by 72 of Sakharov's colleagues in the Soviet Academy of Sciences accused him of activities "aimed to undermine peace." The government refused to let him travel to Oslo for the ceremony, but his wife Yelena Bonner attended...
...said John Kenneth Galbraith. In the past 45 years, he pointed out, no one has been killed, except by accident, in conflict between rich industrial countries. In poor nations of the world, millions of people have died in struggles during those years. "Out of poverty has come conflict." Elena Bonner, the widow of Andrei Sakharov, stated the objectivists' case in an irritable burst: "Moral concepts are lovely, but the key is governing these things...