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...Nieman fellow. After four years as the Tennessean's Washington correspondent, she joined Newsday and then Newsweek. Since last April, TIME has become the fortunate recipient of her investigative skills and long experience in tracking the activities of U.S. drug enforcers. Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen and the War America Can't Win, her book about the dark world of illegal drugs, will be published by Viking Penguin later this year. For this week's stories, Shannon drew upon the scores of sources she has accumulated through the years, including combatants on both sides of the drug war throughout...
...police raiders struck after midnight. Armed but in plain clothes, they knocked on the locked door. No response. Their leader inserted a passkey and pushed. On the inside, the fugitive braced a shoulder against the door and shoved back. But the lawmen burst in, reinjuring the suspect's broken finger. Reluctantly he allowed them to lead him into an elevator, then went limp. They lifted him up, carried him feet first through massive doors -- and onto the floor of the U.S. Senate...
...troopers and SWAT-team commandos staked out both facilities. The Pentagon dispatched an Army Special Operations Forces group to Atlanta. Yet no one was anxious to resort to force, remembering the lessons of the 1971 uprising at New York's Attica prison, where after four days of inconclusive talks lawmen stormed the facility and touched off a bloodbath in which 32 prisoners and eleven guards and other civilian personnel died. Experts on hostage situations have since tended to focus on negotiations, however protracted, as the best way of wearing down the other side. That seemed to be the stance...
Fort spoke directly to Libyan leaders. Though El Rukns never collected from Gaddafi or carried out any of its plots, it was well equipped to do so: on a raid of the gang's headquarters, lawmen found an arsenal that included an antitank device capable of downing an airplane or piercing 12-in.-thick steel plates...
...dream came true. The back door of a Wells Fargo truck lugging some $400,000 along route I-95 burst open and, suddenly, according to a highway patrolman, it "rained $20 bills." A massive traffic jam ensued as astounded motorists abandoned their vehicles to merrily chase the cash. When lawmen arrived and ordered the gleeful pursuers to return the loot, some complied. But all together, the money chasers carried with them what a Wells Fargo spokesman later called a "significant" amount of money...