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Died. Joan Crawford, seventyish, strong-willed actress who rose from cho rus girl to grande dame of the screen; of a heart attack; in Manhattan (see SHOW BUSINESS).
Smuggling has long been a basic industry in Starr County-cotton during the Civil War, liquor during Prohibition, and in the last few years, Mexican narcotics. Ten to 20 tons of marijuana flow into the county each week, along with unknown amounts of heroin and cocaine. Almost daily, Mexican grass...
Getting It. At exactly 6 a.m. one morning last week, this bustling commerce was thrown into turmoil. Fifteen teams of federal agents-about 70 in all -swooped down on the houses of suspected narcotics traffickers in the biggest drug bust ever launched along the Tex-Mex border. In all, 62...
The Starr County drug trade has long been controlled by a few tightly-knit Mexican-American families who own land along the Rio Grande; in some cases, their relatives hold property on the Mexican side. For years they were virtually a law unto themselves. One of the indicted traffickers had...
The court system has not been much better. The last district judge responsible for the county was impeached by the state legislature and forced out of office in 1975 for using county property for personal purposes. "It has been rare to have a criminal case tried with a jury in...