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...outset, the final stage was an amateurish hit-or-miss affair. The coqueros were content to ship cocaine into the U.S. via "mules," who would coat their stomachs with cod-liver oil or honey, then swallow the cocaine wrapped in condoms. If they were lucky, they could flush the drug out once they were over the border. Soon enough, however, the cocaine czars could afford to send bulk shipments into the U.S. in their own DC-6 aircraft or by high-powered speedboats. By 1983, indeed, the system was running so efficiently that the market was glutted with cocaine...
...poem's final stanzas the accusations cease, and Heaney, like many another Irish artist, confronts the shade of James Joyce and his own destiny. The great Irish exile warns Heaney to forget his preoccupation with the past: "That subject people stuff is a cod's game/ in- fantile, like your peasant pilgrimage . . . it's time to swim/ out on your own and fill the element/ with signatures on your own frequency...
They searched from Europe to Cape Cod...
...torrid Caribbean settings, is third on Waldenbooks' list. Magnum, p.i. (Landmark) is fourth, offering pictures of Tom Selleck in fuzzy focus and crisp action. The second Ansel Adams Calendar (New York Graphic Society Books) has resonant prints of the master's favorites such as a Cape Cod barn and Yosemite Valley. They are enhanced by the latest laser-scanned printing techniques...
This is the first major setback for PBA, which was founded in 1949 by Van Arsdale's father. He started out with flights in a four-seater plane from Boston to Provincetown, a resort community on the northern tip of Cape Cod. Three years later he opened up a Florida operation, based in Naples, to keep his planes busy during the winter. In 1980 Van Arsdale retired and turned over the successful company to his sons John, 40, and Peter, 36, who is currently president. The two siblings took off on an ambitious growth program that has expanded...