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...charge of Miami's Drug Enforcement Administration office, is cruising down I-75, the Everglades Parkway, in his big blue Olds Delta 88. Over his two-way radio, Kennedy hears the squawk of an Air Force Black Hawk helicopter that is tracking a drug-laden plane from Colombia. The dope runner decides to land his plane on an unfinished section of I-75, not far from where Kennedy happens to be. "The copter guys are yelling, 'We have him!' " recalls Kennedy. "And I'm looking everywhere trying to find this...
...assemble those facts, DEA agents have tracked down more than 1,000 leads in Texas, Mexico, Chile, Canada, Germany, France, Belgium and even South Korea. Prosecutors have lined up a formidable rogues' gallery of drug dealers, $ dope pilots, shady businessmen and former Noriega military cronies to testify against him. The star witness will be Panamanian pilot Floyd Carlton Caceres, who claims he was the general's point man with the Medellin cartel. In addition, six of the 15 men indicted along with Noriega have been convicted and have turned state's evidence in exchange for a promise of leniency...
...pageant of inner-city anger and anguish is playing at a theater near you. Suddenly, it seems, dozens of films by black directors are in circulation, from artistic achievements like Charles Burnett's family drama To Sleep with Anger (now on video) to breakthrough hits like Mario Van Peebles' dope opera New Jack City, the year's fourth highest grossing picture. Some of the black films pack promise, others just threaten -- but all are tonics to a movie industry that otherwise looks ready to doze off into a coma of retreads and revisionism...
Bombast aside, the speech gave a strong clue to his plans, which struck some American politicians as a military adaptation of Muhammad Ali's "rope-a- dope" ring strategy: bob, weave, dance and duck until the opponent tires himself out chasing an elusive target; then hit hard. Saddam, in fact, has supposedly used very nearly those words. Says an Arab diplomat in Amman: "Before the war, he was telling everyone, 'We know that the first strike will be for the benefit of the U.S. But we are prepared for them to hit us for two or three weeks. After that...
...homeless problem," says Mike Neely, an engineer in Los Angeles, who squandered all he had, including his home and family, on cocaine before he turned his life around and founded the Homeless Outreach Project. "I think it's a drug problem. You can't pay the landlord and the dope man at the same time...