Word: kilos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lately cocaine prices have increased in a few cities, but experts on both sides of the law see no close connection between enforcement efforts and price levels. In Miami, the main gateway for drug smuggling, the cost of a kilo has jumped 44% in the past two months, to as much as $23,000. But for the U.S. as a whole, which consumes three-fourths of the world's cocaine production, wholesale and retail prices have been stable...
...homeland." Such frustrating episodes may explain why U.S. authorities occasionally resort to more subterranean alternatives to extradition. In 1987 Lebanese plane hijacker Fawaz Younis was lured out of Cyprus by U.S. agents posing as narcotics traffickers. They persuaded him to discuss a drug deal on the yacht Skunk Kilo as it plied international waters. Once aboard, the agents handcuffed Younis and promptly shipped him back to the U.S. Last month he was convicted in Washington...
...Jamaicans have found a niche, along with the Colombians and Cubans, in Miami's drug trade. Unlike the South American gangsters who sell narcotics wholesale, the Jamaicans are primarily street dealers and crack-house operators. Their enterprise has proved outrageously lucrative: posses will process a $6,000 kilo of cocaine into crack and sell...
...price. A similar size bottle can be had for only $16 across the border in New York. "There's little stigma attached to smuggling liquor," says William McKissock, a senior Canada Customs antismuggling officer. "It's a lot easier to sell a case of Scotch than a kilo of cocaine...
TIMES ARE tough all over. Used to be any drugged-out freak with a forged press card could peddle a kilo of dope, change his name, and catch the next flight out to the civil war, riot, or acid orgy of his choice...