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...Sanofi and the other bidders rush for Robins? The answer lies in such mundane but popular household items as Robitussin and Dimetapp cold medicines, Chap Stick lip balm and Sergeant's flea-and-tick collars. Those are among the products that make Robins one of the most profitable bankrupt companies in history. In the first three quarters of 1987, Robins earned $60 million on sales of $621 million, compared with profits of $55 million on revenues of $579 million during the same period...
...down on narcotics traffic. Fumed Von Raab: "I was snookered." Von Raab is skeptical about talk of Panamanian cooperation with U.S. law enforcement. "Just because they throw a few crumbs to us or any other agency," he says, "it doesn't change the character of the country as a flea market for contraband...
Apparently disturbed by his Nightline appearance, Bakker declines to discuss details of the PTL controversy. Nor, he says, is Wife Tammy Faye available. "This whole time she's been shopping," he says, noting that she visits at least two flea markets a week. Until recently, both Jim and Tammy Bakker went five days a week to the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif., where they were both outpatients. "I went because of Tammy," he says, explaining that his wife was addicted to a prescription tranquilizer as well as an over-the-counter allergy medicine...
Three minutes earlier, Tony Eason had thrown his second TD pass to Stanley Morgan for a 17-13 Patriots' lead. That score came on a wellexecuted flea-flicker, with fullback Mosi Tatupu taking a handoff and passing backward to Eason, who then found Morgan 45 yards downfield...
Three minutes later, however, the Patriots wrested the lead again. New England had little success running the ball, but Craig James got the drive started with a 17-yd. run, and the flea-flicker capped the 78-yd. march with 2:50 left in the third period...