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...press secretary has bitterly denounced, Authors Peter Collier and David Horowitz offer a procession of harrowing stories not only about David's adventures with drugs but also about those of his older brother Bobby and cousin Chris Lawford. According to Horowitz and Collier, David began to shoot heroin in the fall of 1973, his senior year at Middlesex School in Concord, Mass...
...policy in Central America. The Post is often arrogant, and is so inclined to mistrust anyone who challenges a reporter's accuracy that for months its editors ignored widespread doubts about the authenticity of Feature Writer Janet Cooke's profile of "Jimmy," a purported eight-year-old heroin addict; two days after the article was awarded a 1981 Pulitzer Prize, the Post belatedly announced that it was a fake...
...theater of the absurd. In the battle between Quebec's French separatists and its anglophone minority, violent verbal gestures are made. The provincial government forbids the use of the English word hamburger; "hambourgeois" is the meat substitute. In Montreal, police become provincial celebrities not by seizing heroin but by impounding 15,000 Dunkin' Donut bags because the printing is not bilingual...
According to the FBI's 341 -page affidavit, Badalamenti and his deputies in Sicily purchased opium from Pakistan and Afghanistan, oversaw its production into heroin, then exported it to the U.S. There Bonanno-family members, including Alfano and his fellow restaurateurs in the Midwest, acted as middlemen. Finally, the money was collected by the Catalano Mob faction and laundered through prestigious New York City brokerage houses...
...According to court documents, important calls were exchanged from phones in or near Al Dente pizzeria in Queens, New York, owned by Catalano and a frequent meeting place for lieutenants in his faction of the Bonanno family. The smugglers spoke in obscure Sicilian dialects and in code. Shipments of heroin were called "cheese" or "tomatoes." U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani says the bust was part of a larger assault on the Mafia. "We can substantially crush organized crime," he said. "And we are doing just that...