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...main producing countries, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia. Inspectors at Miami International Airport found a near- record shipment of 3,227 lbs. of cocaine in January aboard a cargo jet owned by Avianca, the Colombian national airline. Agents discovered the drug when they opened 55-gal. barrels of passion fruit in syrup and found football- shaped containers of coke bobbing in the mixture...
Hazards of the Midas touch is a theme common to both books. Lenzner's The Great Getty is more detailed and better organized and written than Russell Miller's The House of Getty, which contains such cliches as "fruit of his loins" and repeatedly uses the bush-league redundancy "consensus of opinion." Both authors have a good handle on Getty's complex business holdings and the right touch when dealing with the old man's harem, the collecton of seasoned beauties who lived at Sutton Place and fought capped tooth and lacquered nail for sole possession of their host. Their...
...matter what students think of the innovations, there are more to come. Executive Dietician Dale M. Hennessey says more new items will be added after spring break, with chicken tostadas and fresh fruit plates replacing beef stew...
...Johnson & Johnson's nightmare began to subside last week, another company's may have begun. Consumers in several states, including Florida, Georgia and Maryland, claimed to have found bits of broken glass in Gerber baby food and fruit juice. Local and federal authorities began trying to confirm the incidents to determine whether any pattern existed. But FDA officials suspected that if glass was indeed found in the Gerber containers, ) it was the result of jars that chipped during shipment rather than a rash of copycat mayhem...
Strolling through the peaceful vegetable gardens and fruit trees at his country retreat 40 miles outside the capital city, Maseru, Lesotho's Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan early last week was the picture of self-confidence. Yes, admitted the Prime Minister, his country had been shaken by a 19-day ) blockade by South Africa, which completely surrounds the mountainous kingdom (pop. 1.5 million). But Chief Jonathan, 71, who had ruled Lesotho (pronounced Leh-sue-too) in an increasingly autocratic manner since its independence from Britain in 1966, smoothly dismissed rumors that his government might be toppled by a military takeover...