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Still, Columbia is bound to upset someone, and Naso has solid credentials. Quarterback Bob Conroy and running backs Joe Cabrera and Ralph Brunori should lead the offense, with linebackers Sean D'Arcy and wild Chip Quadri heading the defense...
Special care for Chip Carter...
...small bar in Mexico Beach, Fla., Jimmy Carter's eldest son Chip was drinking beer with several other young men on the afternoon of July 20, 1977. His companions included the skipper of the Foxy Lady, a drab work boat that Carter, who was vacationing that month with then Wife Caron and Son James at her family's house near Panama City, had chartered on several occasions. Indeed, Carter was arranging with the owner to use the Foxy Lady for a fishing trip with 20 or so friends...
Unknown to Chip Carter, now 30, law enforcement officials were getting ready to stage a major drug bust in the Panama City vicinity that very night. Because of its isolated beaches, tree-lined inlets and intricate inland canal system, the resort area had become an important entry point for marijuana smuggled from Colombia...
...then Customs officials suddenly learned that Chip Carter was drinking beer with the owner of the Foxy Lady. Not only was the boat to be used in the smuggling, but the owner had tipped off the law about the operation. Authorities suspected that several of the young men in the bar might also take part in the smuggling. Officials then and today have no indication that Chip knew anything about the illegal activities of his drinking buddies. Nonetheless, until now, the tale of his possible entanglement in a drug bust has been carefully hushed up, chiefly to save his father...