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...chemicals seized during Operation Primavera were stored in standing tanks or 55-gal. drums. In some cases the drums were stacked 15 ft. high, creating Andean peaks of testimony to the proportions of the smuggling operation. Ethyl ether, for example, is essential to the final processing of cocaine base into a white hydrochloride powder. The manufacture of ethyl ether has been outlawed in Colombia, and importation is closely regulated. A 55-gal. drum of ethyl ether that sells for $500 in the U.S. fetches more than $12,000 in Colombia. Says Alfonso Barragan, president of the Colombian Society of Chemical...
Those certainly were the expectations. Bush and his advisers had portrayed the three pleasant but slightly enervating weeks since the Inauguration as merely the interlude before the drum rolls heralding the formal presentation of his legislative program. White House aides talked confidently of the President's "action agenda." Bush had been predicting publicly that Congress would not like his courageous proposals, even as he artfully wooed legislators to ensure a warm reception. By the time the new President made his triumphal entrance into the House chamber, beaming and backslapping like a joyful alum at a Yale reunion, the stage...
...Drum roll, please...
...some campaign tactics, however successful, exact a price. For Bush it was a victory without drum rolls, a majority without a meaningful mandate. The single-hued certainty of the TV tote boards left no ambiguity as to the verdict. Once again the American people had chosen a Republican President before much of the nation had even digested dinner. Yet on this 200th anniversary of the election of George Washington, there was a palpable hesitancy as America cast its votes. Rather than ratifying the Reagan realignment, a nation of ticket splitters strengthened Democratic control of Congress. The result, whether conscious...
...hall's terrarium, wearing tie-dyed clothing (and tie-dyed faces) and uttering clever, non sequitur one-liners. A strobe light gradually speeds up throughout the play. In the background plays what sounds like Satan's own version of the score from Flute, diced and spliced, with an electronic drum track. Every half-minute or so, the music becomes so loud that the actors stop talking and start dancing...