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...while chairman of the Dallas-based LTV Corp. and a director of four other companies, he passed confidential information to Harris on Anheuser- Busch's $560 million acquisition of Campbell Taggart, a Dallas food conglomerate. Thayer also allegedly tipped Harris to two other merger deals. The inside dope netted $1.9 million in illegal profits for Harris along with Thayer's onetime companion Sandra Ryno, a former receptionist at LTV, and six other Thayer friends. Ryno gave the Government incriminating information against her friends and was not charged. Although prosecutors will recommend leniency, Thayer and Harris could face a maximum five...
Another big seller is "square grouper," sly fisherman talk for the bales of marijuana smuggled ashore. Dope has brought a glitzy prosperity to many sleepy towns: dreamily painted vans have replaced rusted pickup trucks, and stone crabbers undo the top buttons of their work shirts to display gold chains...
...South America, where he had, as he puts it, "whispered interviews with cocaine traffickers in Rio nightclubs, a clandestine meeting with one of Panama's most influential smugglers, and spirited political discussions with coca plantation owners in Bolivia." But given the sheer size, profitability and economic importance of the dope trade, Beaty says, "it wasn't surprising that some of my most secret meetings were held not with cocaine barons but with hard-pressed Latin American prosecutors or opposition politicians, who described the involvement of their country's military and political establishment...
...planes that didn't make it." The drug trade has apparently also wrecked the image of Colombians. Says Diederich: "A Colombian told me that because of the way U.S. Customs officials deal with his countrymen, he feels like a fourth-class citizen whenever he has to present his passport. Dope has marked every Colombian, even the law-abiding ones...
...pair is taken into protective custody by Detective John Book (Harrison Ford, in a shy, gruff, well-controlled performance). But when Samuel identifies the killer as a policeman, and Book discovers that the man is part of a dope ring that includes other police officers, it is he who needs protection. Shot by the murderer, Book hides out on Rachel's farm, where his wound is healed by folk medicine. But his presence is resented by the Amish. They are kindly but stern people who understand that threats to their way of life can come in benign forms...