Word: deas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...Administration, which has more than 20 agents in Thailand. "He pays his men well and has won surprising loyalty from them." In 1978 he even tried to make a deal with the U.S. to sell it 500 tons of raw opium over a five-year period for $30 million. DEA officials convinced the Carter Administration that such preemptive buying would be futile, since Khun Sa could still flood the market with opium. Officials now estimate that about 600 tons of opium is harvested each year in the area, most of it in the vast poppy fields of northern Burma...
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...
...Justice Department report estimated that 80% of all hard drugs flowing into the U.S. were smuggled in with the aid of fraudulent passports. Today as many as 300,000 fugitives and terrorists use bogus identity papers, including U.S. passports and visas, to travel freely around the world. Says one DEA agent: "I can't think of a major investigation involving hashish, heroin, cocaine or marijuana smuggling in the past five years that hasn't involved passport fraud or false drivers' licenses...
...providing protection for State Department officials and visiting dignitaries and investigating colleagues for security clearances. As a result, the department's 450 security agents investigate only about 200 of the 1,000 or so fraud cases detected annually. The rest are farmed out to other investigative agencies-FBI, DEA, Customs Service-or not investigated at all. Thus a potentially effective law enforcement weapon is left halfcocked. Says one State Department agent: "In every case I've done in years, the guy was involved in something other than just a passport violation...