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...circling the breakfast table and coffee break. The Atlanta-based company is promoting the top-selling soft drink, which has only about one-third less caffeine than coffee, as the eye-opener of choice. Billboards and radio commercials in Atlanta, New Orleans and Knoxville urge people to have "a Coke in the morning." Local bottlers echo the theme in Kentucky, Oklahoma, Virginia, Wisconsin and Florida...
Nutritionists object to the campaign, since Coke has a fattening, tooth- decaying dose of sugar. One answer: wash down your oatmeal with a sugar- free diet Coke...
Harris probably could have carried a conventional account of the founding of a bananas republic unaided. But Director Alex Cox and Writer Rudy Wurlitzer are helpful deadpan absurdists. They point up the parallels between 19th and 20th century imperialism with sly, casually dislocating anachronisms. Accompanied by a rock score, Coke bottles, North American magazines carrying cover stories about Walker's exploits, even a Marine helicopter all turn up at ! the strangest moments. At best one thinks of Brecht's presentational theater, at worst (not often) of Saturday Night Live. At all times one is glad to see the spirit...
...mother as a courier. From humble beginnings as a small-time pot dealer in New York in the early 1970s, Carlos Lehder Rivas rose to become a pivotal figure in the international drug trade, commanding a squadron of | airplanes that is said to have brought 15 tons of coke into the U.S. every month. Last week the onetime drug lord went on trial in a heavily guarded federal courthouse in Jacksonville...
Lehder, said prosecuting U.S. Attorney Robert Merkle, "was to cocaine transportation what Henry Ford was to automobiles." As part of the notorious Medellin Cartel, he and his partners allegedly controlled 80% of the U.S. coke trade. Extradited to Florida last February, Lehder is specifically accused of shipping 3.3 tons of cocaine into the U.S. The trial, which should last three months, will include testimony from some 200 witnesses presented to an anonymous jury...