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...however. Abrego's Gulf Cartel is essentially a family-run operation, and it is likely that one of his relatives will just step in and keep the operation going." The 51-year-old drug kingpin is said to run a $2 billion-a-year drug business, which also includes heroin, marijuana and methamphetamines, and is believed to be responsible for about one-third of the cocaine smuggled into the U.S. He faces charges of conspiracy, distribution of illegal drugs and money laundering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facing The Music | 1/16/1996 | See Source »

...notes Ed Mayer, head of the Jackson County, Oregon, Narcotics Enforcement Team. For decades, its manufacture and distribution was a low-level enterprise dominated by motorcycle gangs. The current surge is driven by powerful Mexican syndicates, which have found that meth offers far greater profit margins than cocaine or heroin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THERE IS NO SAFE SPEED | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

...WENT TO WORK THIS MORNING. AS I dropped off my five-year-old son at school, I kissed him goodbye for the day and thanked God that I had a beautiful boy and a good job. I was a heroin and methadone addict for eight years, but I was smart enough not to have children back then. I figured that if I couldn't help myself, I had no right to bring a child into the world to include in my suffering. I'm 13 years clean. When I saw Elisa's face on your cover, I was horrified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 8, 1996 | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

DIED. EDDIE EGAN, 65, police officer/actor; of cancer; in Miami. As a New York City detective in 1962, Egan oversaw the famed "French Connection" heroin bust, which inspired the 1971 movie. In it Egan, portraying his boss, was cast opposite Gene Hackman, who won an Oscar for playing Egan. The real cop went on to play a platoon's worth of the Hollywood sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Nov. 20, 1995 | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

...story of couple who throw a party which Satan crashes. When things get bad, as we knew they would, the host stays calm and retreats to his somehow ghoulishly tiled bathroom There he calmly administers a progressively more severe regimen of beer (the devil kicked the keg), whisky, pills, heroin and cocine. The restraint of clever shot angles of the 23 minute film make up for the terrible dubbing and college dorm feel of the party (would the devil really show up at a dorm...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, | Title: Short & NASTY underground | 10/26/1995 | See Source »

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