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Inevitably, so long a working life entailed a certain amount of repetition; to the skeptic, the later Moore seemed to be running a one-man academy of stones and bones. "Less is more, and Moore is a bore" was what one heard from English art students hip to Anthony Caro and David Smith, and the sentiment was echoed by people who had forgotten, or not known, his stubborn efforts to get modernism a hearing among the art-hating English 30 years before. All that is over, but the sculpture remains. When the best of it has been winnowed out -- which...
...cocaine at the border, their third biggest haul in the country's history. A couple of days later the former chief of the federal judicial police in Guadalajara, Armando Pavon Reyes, was sentenced to four years in prison for having accepted $100,000 in bribes from Rafael Caro Quintero, an arrested drug trafficker...
...Reagan Administration, which has complained strongly about Mexico's apparently laggard efforts to catch the murderers, was quick with praise. The arrest came only five days after the capture in San Jose, Costa Rica, of another Mexican drug kingpin, Rafael Caro Quintero, 29, who had fled shortly after the murder of Camarena and his Mexican pilot Alfredo Zavala Avelar. Caro Quintero was deported to Mexico and last week was charged in a Mexico City court with drug trafficking, arms smuggling and criminal association. Authorities have not yet determined whether he is to be charged with murder...
According to Mexican officials, Fonseca told them last week that he had seen Camarena and Caro Quintero at the ranch the day after the kidnapings. Fonseca said that he and Caro Quintero were angry with the agent over a police and army raid on a plantation in Chihuahua, owned by the two drug dealers, in which 8,000 tons of marijuana were burned. Fonseca added that the intention had been to question Camarena and offer him a bribe. He also claimed that he was too drunk to talk to Camarena until the next day, when Caro Quintero allegedly told...
...Caro Quintero has denied any part in the kidnapings and killings. When he appeared in court in Mexico City last week, his arms and right shoulder showed faint marks, which he said were the result of police beatings. In his confession, which he alleged had been obtained through torture, Caro Quintero said that he had bribed Mexican police and government officials with more than 1 billion pesos ($4.3 million) over the years. He revealed that he had paid a police commandant in Jalisco 60 million pesos ($261,000) for allowing him to take a private jet out of Guadalajara...