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Time was when the hotel industry mixed glamour and high finance in an intoxicating cocktail that attracted the most flamboyant entrepreneurs of the past century -- Conrad Hilton, Richard D'Oyly Carte, Cesar Ritz. But check in today at thousands of U.S. hostelries, including Hiltons, Sheratons and Marriotts, and your innkeeper will belong to a far more somber group: Citicorp, Wells Fargo Bank, Travelers insurance and others...
...last week as one of the country's most wanted drug lords turned himself in at a church 14 miles south of Medellin. Fabio ("Fabito") Ochoa Vasquez, 33, was the first chieftain of the so-called Medellin cartel to surrender under the terms of a decree announced by President Cesar Gaviria Trujillo last week. Ochoa is wanted in the U.S. for masterminding the 1986 slaying of federal witness Adler (Barry) Seal in Baton Rouge, La. He is also linked to drug-trafficking activities with former Panamanian leader Manuel Antonio Noriega...
Last week the cartel said hundreds of its members might actually surrender and accept a government offer not to extradite them to the U.S. if authorities came up with additional guarantees. The administration of President Cesar Gaviria Trujillo expressed interest in the latest message. Government pressure on the cartel's cocaine-refining labs has reduced output 15% to 25% from a year ago, forcing the drug empire to move some refineries to Peru, Brazil, Ecuador and Venezuela. Still, more than 700 tons of refined cocaine flow out of Colombia annually...
...streets Cesar is reportedly known as the "Pope of Pot," high priest of the Church of the Realized Fantasy, whose ad hoc philosophy preaches the evil of money and the virtue of easy access to sex and drugs. For all Cesar's fulminations against hard cash, however, he certainly did not spurn it. Police say that, by Cesar's own estimate, the pot line netted $40,000 a day, enough for him to purchase a luxury Eastside Manhattan apartment and a mansion in New Jersey...
...there was a bit of culture shock for both band and audience. The punkers, who held rather prescribed, even fashionable ideas about anarchy, were surprised to see a band of brooding barrio boys in plaid shirts who sang tunes with suspiciously literate overtones. The band, which includes guitarist-vocalist Cesar Rosas, bass player Conrad Lozano and sax man Steven Berlin, found itself looking out into a Chinese restaurant with black walls and a rankly aromatic carpet. So much for crossover dreams. But that grungy club gave them an enthusiastic constituency that remained faithful even as it grew...