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...Lorean probe involved undercover agents of the FBI working closely with DEA officers, investigators from the U.S. Customs Service and with local police in Los Angeles and Ventura, Calif. Predicted Assistant FBI Director Roger Young after De Lorean's arrest: "This is only the tip of the iceberg as far as cooperation is concerned." Praising President Reagan's proposal two weeks ago to set up joint federal task forces throughout the nation to snare big drug suppliers, Young declared: "We've got the Commander in Chief saying, 'Go get 'em, guys.' No one can back down from cooperating...
...bloomed in the late 1970s after the Nixon Administration pressured Mexico to spray its grass crop with paraquat, a potent weed killer. U.S. smokers, frightened of potential lung damage from tainted Mexican grass, turned to growing their own. That reliance on the domestic weed was further heightened when the DEA cracked down on the smuggling of Colombian marijuana into the U.S. Today, though many growers cultivate small quantities of pot strictly for their own or friends' use, 100,000 or so, according to NORML, the pro-pot lobby group, are commercial growers. They supply about 20% of the grass...
Officials admit that they are managing to seize only 5% to 10% of the domestic crop at best. The DEA contends that enforcement could become more efficient if the newly discovered marijuana fields were to be sprayed with paraquat. The state of Florida, in apparent agreement, has announced that it will spray some fields with the herb killer. The Florida plan has prompted critical editorials in local newspapers as well as a lawsuit from NORML. In addition, the Chevron Chemical Co., a distributor of paraquat, has fired off a warning letter to the U.S. Department of Justice and the DEA...
...Crimson capitalized on that unique opportunity by losing the Beanpot final and any chance at the playoffs in one, glorious, 7-1 tragedy at the hands of B.U. To celebrate, the teams staged a beach-clearing brawl late in the third period, George and Jackie Hughes and Murray Dea against Jack O'Callahan, Daryl McLeod and Dave Silk in the tag-team feature. Harvard lost that...
Khun Sa's tactics, meanwhile, became ever more brutal. One Thai government informant was buried alive, another drawn and quartered on the main street of Ban Hin Taek. In 1980 the American wife of DEA Agent Michael Powers was gunned down on a street in the northern city of Chiang Mai. Bangkok offered a $25,000 reward for the warlord's head. When a group of Thai paramilitary troops set off to capture Khun Sa and cop the reward, they were ambushed by Shan mercenaries. The open clash on Thai soil enraged Bangkok, already under mounting pressure from...