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...film, Miner liked opera, was the tolerant and understanding lover of an abrasive early feminist-photographer and never hurt anyone in the course of his depredation. On the other hand, his takings were minuscule, his life as a fugitive mostly hard. And he managed to rile the lawmen of two countries, who quickly truncated his second career...
...modern-day version of the great heroes who appeared from time to time throughout history," said President Ronald Reagan. "There were many like him in the past-pioneers, soldiers, lawmen, explorers-people who all went out and put their lives on the line for the cause of good." Whom did he mean? An astronaut, perhaps, or a star FBI drug buster. No, Reagan was praising Agent 007 in a filmed appearance on a British TV special, James Bond, The First 21 Years. The President did not seem troubled by the fact that Ian Fleming's superspy also...
...elder Kahl, who had contended that the U.S. Government is "the American synagogue of Satan," jumped into an unmarked Medina police car at the shooting site and fled. Much of the government he hated was soon hunting him, employing some 100 lawmen, dozens of cars, police dogs, even an incongruously formidable armored personnel carrier. By week's end five suspects, including Kahl's wounded son, were under arrest. But Kahl was still eluding the massive man hunt...
...counter of the Anchor Bar, a shadowy grease pit midway between the offices of the Detroit News and the rival Free Press, where journalists mingle in the legendary camaraderie of the trade, a Free Press employee looks up at rows of photographs of Motor City reporters, lawmen and politicians and says, "I think you have to be dead to be up there." That is certainly true of one picture; it shows a building that once housed the Detroit Times, a Hearst daily that shut down in 1960 and threw the city's two surviving papers into a decades-long...
Battling the dope runners are the combined forces of the U.S. Customs Service the Coast Guard and the Drug Enforcement Administration, as well as local lawmen. But they all are fighting a losing battle. Last year law enforcement officials seized 3.2 million Ibs. of marijuana, with a street value of $ 1.3 billion, and 2,353 Ibs. of cocaine worth $5.8 billion, in and around South Florida. So much dope was seized that the police began trucking it to the Florida Power and Light Co. to burn in its generators (732 Ibs. of marijuana equal...