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...spread of cocaine has continued even though police and, more significantly, some 2,500 federal drug agents have mobilized to cut into the booming trade. Last year the DEA?and the FBI, which for the first time has been assigned to drug cases???arrested 4,500 people and seized 12,500 lbs. of nearly pure cocaine. This record take, which in diluted form might bring around $3.5 billion retail, was larger than the amounts seized during 1980 and 1981 combined. It included the largest single seizure (3,236 lbs. in Miami) in history. New federal antidrug task forces, forming...
...taxes on capital gains?profits on the sale of assets such as stock, bonds and real estate?centered on prospects for a drastic increase. The Carter Administration drafted a proposal to tax all capital gains at full ordinary-income rates ?which would effectively double the tax in many cases???but eventually sent Congress a recommendation for a much smaller rise. That still worried Representative William Steiger, 40, a baby-faced Wisconsin Republican who has the gung-ho style of a JayCee president. Therefore, on April 13 he introduced a counterproposal: an amendment to lower capital-gains taxes, indeed...
Through 1975 Ritter was reversed in an astounding 58% of his civil cases, 40% of his criminal cases and 76% of his habeas corpus cases???perhaps the worst record in the U.S. He has twice been removed from cases by the U.S. Supreme Court for bias. U.S. Attorney Child, in 1,018 pages of complaints, accused Ritter of repeated misconduct, including failing to observe procedural rules, ignoring judicial precedents and ruling capriciously...
...Brushy Mountain state prison. The beige-painted stone fortress, 40 years old and showing its age, is half hidden in the rugged Cumberland Mountains, 40 miles north of Knoxville, Tenn. No one had ever escaped for long from Brushy Mountain, a "maximum-security" penitentiary filled with hard cases???convicted murderers and other violent criminals...
...times the daily medical dosage usually prescribed for dieters. In rare cases???particularly when Methedrine is used?the jolt can raise blood pressure enough to cause immediate death; chronic use can lead to a psychosis that many doctors feel is more similar to schizophrenia than any of the psychotic symptoms brought on by other dangerous drugs. While a person is "up" on speed, his body runs down, making him easy prey to disease. Although amphetamines generally are not considered physically addictive, when a user comes down ("crashes") he is so tired and depressed that he is tempted to start again...