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...Reagan Administration plans to shift enforcement efforts from the smaller dealers to the major traffickers. Spearheading the drive is Francis ("Bud") Mullen, former FBI executive assistant director, who this month was put in charge of the DEA. He hopes to use the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations statute, the FBI'S favorite tool against organized crime, to confiscate drug-trade profits. One way of locating these gains is through stricter enforcement of the 1970 Bank Secrecy Act, which requires banks to disclose deposits that exceed...
What the hell is this guy talking about? For years he has been turning stirring tennis matches into towering piles of ridiculous metaphors and boring anecdotes, and no one does anything about it. Why do we put up with Bud Collins...
...answer, sad to say, is that few people can even imagine watching tennis on television without hearing Bud Collins reciting poetry in the background. We have even become accustomed to the Bud Collins I'm really-excited-and can't-speak-English routine. ("Ooh...John got it...ah. Bjorn...unbelievable!...bang, he's got it...oh no!... the Swedish assassin...
...that had no tradition, so he created one--fill every empty moment of air time with words, any words. His style only brought out the worst in his colleagues through the years, whether they were fellow t.v. "journalists" or competitors-turned-color commentators. Everyone tried to keep up with Bud in the coining of catch phrases and use of silly tennis-chiclingo...
...John McEnroe will probably have retired and opened his tennis academics all over Queens. Collins, on the other hand, could chatter on indefinitely. The outlook for televised tennis is grim. Drastic action is imperative. Bud Collins must be silenced...