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...Camarena Salazar, 37. Then the head of the DEA, Francis M. Mullen Jr., who was leaving the agency to join a Connecticut-based security-consulting firm, strained relations between the two countries further by charging that Mexican police permitted a prime suspect in the Camarena case, Drug Kingpin Rafael Caro Quintero, to slip out of the country...
...suspicion in the kidnaping focused on two drug-trafficking families, headed by Miguel Felix Gallardo and Rafael Caro Quintero. Arthur Sedillo, another Mexico-based DEA agent, told members of the President's Commission on Organized Crime in Miami last week that both families are heavily involved in opium and marijuana production and are believed to have joint operations with Colombian drug mafiosos. Earlier, DEA Deputy Administrator John C. Lawn testified that the Guadalajara traficantes had threatened eyewitnesses to the Camarena abduction. Added Lawn: "There was a reluctance on the part of law enforcement authorities in Guadalajara and Mexico City...
Today the situation is very different. To be kind, one can say that President Reagan has not made urban needs a priority, and the Democratic candidates have hardly made this failure an issue in the campaign. With the exception of an occasional Brookings Institution report, Robert Caro's biography of Robert Moses, and a few accounts of the New York City fiscal crisis, no significant books on urban issues have appeared in the last 10 years. From what I can tell about Harvard, courses on Urban issues are confined to an occasional graduate seminar...
Edmund Morris, 42, has also completed one volume of a three-part presidential study. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt won a Pulitzer Prize in 1980, and Theodore Rex will appear within two years. Unlike Caro, Morris, who keeps residences on New York City's fashionable Central Park South and in Washington, D.C., is bully on his subject. "I got interested listening to Nixon's farewell speech to his staff," he says, "because he quoted T.R.'s elegy to his dying wife." The result was an unproduced screenplay, The Dude from New York City. Some four years later...
...While Caro explores every shred of evidence and exhausts every interview, Morris believes that biographers should keep out of places where they do not be long. Fascinated by T.R.'s courtship of his first wife, Alice Lee, detailed in the future President's diary, Morris nonetheless accepted Roosevelt's brief entry for the couple's wedding night: "Happiness is too sacred to write about." Although this may seem a bizarre attitude for a biographer, Morris is adamant: "If the subject doesn't want you in part of his life, you have no right to invade...