Word: commandant
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...figures in the cocaine business continue to elude the authorities. Washington has stationed 16 antinarcotics agents in Colombia and hopes to budget a record $9.2 million for its Colombian campaign in fiscal 1985. By comparison, Drug King Escobar is said to command a personal army of more than 2,000 retainers and a fortune estimated at more than $2 billion. Escobar, who is suspected of having taken out the contract on Lara's life and is wanted in the U.S. on charges of smuggling ten tons of cocaine into the country, at one time faced just one charge in Colombia...
...barrels of ether, worth about $1 million and enough to process around 200,000 kilos of cocaine. Both the chemicals and the building were apparently owned by Colombia's Ochoa clan. Shortly afterward, Julian Melo, the general secretary of the Panamanian National Defense Forces High Command, was arrested, accused of allowing the Colombians to transport the ether through the country in exchange for a $2 million bribe. Melo was never prosecuted, however, and many Panamanians assumed that he was merely a symbolic victim sacrificed to appease / Washington. "It stretches the imagination," said a Western diplomat in Panama, "to think that...
Dowling, who never fails to provide a thrill, was taken to five games for the fourth time in the past two weeks. The sophomore lost the first game in a tiebreaker, but came back to take command with two 15-5 victories to put himself...
Junior Michael Scott, Harvard's only representative in the final six of the men's lightweights look command of the race...
Opponents vow to fight the plan in Congress, which must approve the sale. Chairman Hays Watkins of rival CSX promises that the sale "will be resisted by every resource at our command and in every forum where the challenge can be brought." Conrail Chairman L. Stanley Crane, a retired president of Southern Railway who took over in 1981, opposes the sale to any of the bidders because he thinks the asking price is too low. He wants instead to sell the company through a public stock offering. Republican Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania agrees with that plan because it would...