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...story of businessman Q, as reconstructed from police and court records, traces a prodigious feat of colonization and franchising. In Los Angeles, Q and his cohorts made their basic profits from cocaine bought at cross-border prices--typically about $15,000 a kilo. They cut the coke and ratcheted up the price as they resold supplies in outlying markets. Then with expansion came branches and outposts beyond the bounds of Los Angeles, as well as franchise-like agreements with local, allegedly gang-connected distributors. Says Sergeant Steve Spanard of the Denver Police antigang unit: ``We never had Eight Treys...
...front desk. ``Where is Room 16?'' one demanded. A hotel clerk pointed the way, and the posse ran up the stairs and knocked on the door. When Ali Mohammad opened it, they burst in. ``It was like a hurricane, a big panic,'' said Khalid Sheikh, a Karachi businessman who was staying in a room on the ground floor. ``They were dragging him downstairs. He was blindfolded, barefoot and had his hands and legs bound, and was shouting, `I'm innocent; why are you taking me?' and `Show me the arrest warrant.' '' His two suitcases were left in Room 16 till...
Driving to a Mediterranean seaport in 1986, Tom Darcy didn't realize he was part of espionage's wave of the future. Most CIA officers operate overseas as U.S. diplomats. But Darcy was posing as a businessman, an operative with what the CIA calls nonofficial cover, or NOC (pronounced knock). Darcy was transporting signal- interception equipment to a CIA boat that would sail off the coast of Lebanon to eavesdrop on terrorists. In front of him, police at a roadblock were searching all cars. If the police discovered his spy equipment, there would be no diplomatic immunity to keep...
...Vietnam's first businessman mayor, Nghien intends to run Hanoi with the same determination he used to build the country's biggest electronics conglomerate, Hanel Co. Amid great fanfare last fall, officials rolled out the city's first master plan in nearly a century. It aims to preserve Hanoi's historic center with strict height restrictions on new buildings. As in Paris and London, modern office towers and apartment blocks will be pushed to the outskirts of town. The plan, which has yet to be implemented, also provides for new regulations governing sewage treatment and power generation, details that have...
...pound cakes, cookies and giant biscotti lay on the counter; a friendly, exuberant staff sits behind it. Besides staple deli drinks such as IBC root beer and cream soda, they offer "Fresh Samantha" carrot juice, fresh squeezed orange juice and fruit smoothies, produced and delivered by a local businessman...