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...other federal agents trying to police the 8,426 miles of deeply indented Florida coastline, through which most drugs sneaked into the U.S. come, and the 2,067-mile border with Mexico, gateway for much of the rest. The smugglers they are up against have almost unlimited funds. "They can afford to lease an entire ranch for one drop," says Marion Hambrick of the Drug Enforcement Administration in Houston. They can also buy the best equipment: advanced fiber boats that elude radar, scuba-diving gear, "voice privacy" scrambler radios and single-sideband transmitters, which are hard to intercept, and light...
...that people are backing off. In almost all classes of drugs, abuse among younger people has diminished. When you get that kind of change in attitude on the part of youth, it's obvious that drug use is going to decline." Marijuana has been widely feared as the "gateway drug" that leads teenagers from smoking joints to experimenting with stronger stuff, such as cocaine and heroin. In 1978, according to government surveys, a staggering 10% of all high school seniors smoked marijuana every day. Today the percentage has dropped by half. That is still way too high, but attitudes have...
Such perversity is now commonplace in the city that was at one time a cosmopolitan gateway to the Middle East. Last week in the Muslim-controlled western sector, new depths were achieved when gunmen turned their vengeance on an 84-year-old Frenchman. Camille Sontag and his wife Blanche, 85, were driving along a seaside boulevard when a cab blocked their way. Gunmen leaped from the vehicle and pressed a pistol to Sontag's temple. Seconds later he was packed into the cab and driven away, bringing to nine the number of French currently believed to be held by extremists...
...Lebanon's foreign policy. The struggle for our Arab identity has been one of the main causes of our problems. We have excellent relations with the Arab world, and Syria is our gateway. She is our big Arab neighbor with whom we must have special relations. We share the same democratic values as the Western world, but politically we are nonaligned...
...Sure, there've been lots of town-gown battles," said one old timer, "but without Harvard, Cambridge would just be the gateway to Somerville...