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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Getting caught is not the only risk facing drug pilots. The peninsula is littered with planes that were overloaded with tons of marijuana and crashed while trying to take off. General Villarreal says he has found, within four months, eleven downed planes and the bodies of ten smugglers. Local fishermen tell tales of planes crashing into the sea and their crews being devoured by sharks...
...return run is not easy either, but more and more crude landing strips have appeared in rural areas in the South. One pair of hapless smugglers this month made it all the way into the U.S. only to land in a Florida pasture being used by local politicians for a turkey shoot. The pilot was promptly arrested. But for those who make it in safely, and most do, the payoff is high. A pilot can pocket $50,000 for one trip. Ten tons of marijuana, if landed safely, immediately becomes worth $6 million wholesale, making the trip profitable even...
Another group, the Visiting Overseers Committee, also provides Weissbecker with a monthly rating on the dining halls. This group has the advantage of an objective membership, none of whom attend Harvard. They are local parents of Harvard students, who eat at undergraduate dining halls several times each month and submit a report of their findings to Weissbecker. He said they, too, have not remarked on any disparities in the quality of the food among Houses, but he refused to disclose the names of the committee's members...
Dukakis, who will assume the duties of lecturer and director of Intergovernmental Studies at the Kennedy School, said he will examine the role of state and local government in reshaping the cities, and also try to explain the relationship between federal and local governments...
...legislate, make policy, even administer. Indeed, says U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Irving Kaufman, "sometimes it seems that business, psychology and sociology degrees, in addition to a law degree, should be prerequisites for the federal bench." When Boston's duly elected school committee refused to bus schoolchildren, the local federal judge did it himself, right down to approving the bus routes. A federal judge in Alabama ruled that inadequate mental-health care is unconstitutional. So what is adequate? His answer was a list of 84 minimal standards, reaching down to a supply of hot water...