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...News hasn't even been able to profit as much from the boom in sports coverage. Because it comes out in the morning, the paper is locked into a format that features mostly game stories rather than the analysis, inside dope and rumor-mongering that pervades the Post. The only big success the News has had recently is its rather pathetic imitation of the Post's "Wingo" called "Zingo." "Zingo" has added 100,000 to the circulation, putting the News back to 1,483,333 everyday, but that is still nearly 450,000 below the 1976 level...
South Florida is just beginning to be the crime capital of the nation, but it has been the drug capital for a decade. Smuggling dope into the region is about as difficult as buying a souvenir in Miami Beach. "They land it in everything but a bathtub," marvels Patrolman Doug Morris of the Dade County public safety marine patrol, whose dozen men and six boats help patrol the 550 sq. mi. of county waterways. "Hell...
Battling the dope runners are the combined forces of the U.S. Customs Service the Coast Guard and the Drug Enforcement Administration, as well as local lawmen. But they all are fighting a losing battle. Last year law enforcement officials seized 3.2 million Ibs. of marijuana, with a street value of $ 1.3 billion, and 2,353 Ibs. of cocaine worth $5.8 billion, in and around South Florida. So much dope was seized that the police began trucking it to the Florida Power and Light Co. to burn in its generators (732 Ibs. of marijuana equal...
...August 1981. Stockman's first reaction to the firestorm of criticism that greeted the Greider story was a flat denial-not of the views he is quoted as expressing, but of Greider's right to quote him. Said he: "Do people think I'm a dope? Does anybody think I'm stupid enough to say things like that with my name attached to it?" Greider was incredulous: "Nowhere in our conversations did he ever say a word about 'This is all off the record,' or 'You're not going to quote...
...bloody role model in the society talking about me and I, not we," Sliwa hold the receptive crowd of about 150. "But we average Americans can't become the Brooke Shields and the Reggie Jacksons, so the only way to instant success is to carry a gun or sell dope...