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...heroin in the raid. But hidden inside a stack of small rubber tires was an astonishing 820 lbs. of the narcotic, with an estimated street value of nearly $1 billion. It was the biggest heroin bust ever in the U.S. Some 40 people, including the ring's suspected kingpin, Kok Leung Woo, 71, were arrested in New York and more than half a dozen cities around the world...
Arriving like an invasion force, foreign media magnates have taken over billions of dollars' worth of U.S. properties ranging from RCA Records to Scientific American magazine. So far, their intentions have appeared to be strictly business. But what if a foreign communications kingpin were secretly working for the KGB as part of a diabolical scheme to influence American public opinion? And what if this media mole were to get his claws on the most ^ powerful U.S. communications company? That is the provocative premise of Agent of Influence (Putnam; 416 pages), an intriguing merger mystery by David Aaron, author...
...brother-in-law of the notorious coke lord Pablo Escobar Gaviria. Early last week the raiders descended on Hacienda Napoles, the grandest -- and gaudiest -- of Escobar's several country estates. The helicopters landed to the trumpeting of three caged elephants, part of a private zoo maintained by the drug kingpin. Not found was Escobar, one of the world's most wanted criminals, who has eluded Colombian authorities dozens of times...
...refusing to admit their setbacks. Robert Fomon, 62, who resigned as chairman of E.F. Hutton in May 1987, claims that "it is very fashionable to lie about ((the crash)). Now everyone says that he wasn't in the market." Several snipers contend that Donald Trump, the developer and casino kingpin, was bitten hard by the bear, even though he bragged late last October that he was smart enough to get out just in time...
...tough approach scored a victory of sorts last week. A Florida jury convicted Carlos Lehder Rivas, a kingpin of Colombia's Medellin cartel drug empire, of conspiring to smuggle 3.3 tons of cocaine into the U.S. He could be sentenced to life plus 150 years in prison. But no one was so naive as to believe jailing Lehder would make a dent in drug smuggling. In Congress, a desperate search was under way to find something that might work. The Senate has followed the House's lead by voting 83 to 6 to force the military to participate in antismuggling...