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...seemed jinxed. In the summer of '63, my family and friends were booked for a high-level seminar with Leary and Richard Alpert at the International Foundation for Internal Freedom's paradise in Zihuatanejo. As we bustled through San Francisco Airport to our Mexicana flight, we saw the headline: DOPE DOCTORS ARRESTED AT MEXICO MANSION. So much for paradise...
...nothing because it gives me pleasure...Most of the ailments of people come from eating too much...Salt is one of the best things for the teeth. And also for the hair...I do not believe in charity...There is something sacred about wages...Reading can become a dope habit...To say it plainly, the great majority of women who work do so in order to buy fancy clothes...A man learns something even by being hanged.'" --March...
...says he's sorry now for all those years spent flacking for Big Business as a mainstream Republican operative. He claims his conversion came on the 1991 campaign trail when he met some poverty-stricken New Hampshirites and discovered they weren't, as he might have thought, degenerates and dope fiends but "the type of fellows I played ball with." And of course sooner or later some candidate--even one as sheltered as the Beltway insider Buchanan--had to trip over the bodies of the downsized and notice that the effervescent economy of Wall Street is not the same...
Making billions is only half the drug baron's task; the other is figuring out what to do with them. Trucks and cars carrying huge amounts of drug money continually cross into Mexico from the U.S. "They're bringing in tons of dope," says Thomas Constantine of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. "There's no reason they can't take tons of money back the same way, in bulk cash." Of all the Mexican drug barons, Garcia Abrego was probably the cleverest at figuring out ways to introduce such tons of cash into the financial system without drawing attention...
That's what they got. Most weeks Turner and Hubbard put on jackets with slogans such as UP WITH HOPE, DOWN WITH DOPE and joined other demonstrators on streets where the heaviest dealing happened. Stansbury got the town council to designate "downtown" Taylor as a historic district, which meant a ban on the public consumption of alcohol. The group even persuaded the Texas National Guard to bulldoze 48 worn-out buildings near the railroad tracks that had become weekend squats for drug dealers and their customers, who used to come in by car and train. Taylor these days is more...