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...Cali combine produces 70% of the coke reaching the U.S. today, according to the DEA, and 90% of the drug sold in Europe. The Cali godfathers have a virtual lock on the global wholesale market in the most lucrative commodity ever conceived by organized crime. The cartel is the best and brightest of the modern underworld: professional, intelligent, efficient, imaginative and nearly impenetrable. Says Robert Bonner, administrator of the DEA: "The Cali cartel is the most powerful criminal organization in the world. No drug organization rivals them today or perhaps any time in history...
...note that turned up in the house. "We've been finding things all over," he says, "under the beds, in closets, everywhere." So far, the booty includes a drawing by Paul Revere of the Boston Massacre, papers signed by Louis XVI and Lafayette, and a ring with a lock of George Washington's hair...
They came by the hundreds last week, creating limo-lock on Georgetown's elegant N Street. They gossiped under the Renoir and the Van Gogh in Pamela Harriman's salon. They sipped their Chablis in tribute to one of this age's truly great Democrats, Clark Clifford, and his new book, Counsel to the President, the story of a half-century of political grandeur. But one prominent Democrat, looking beyond the evening's scheduled gaiety, said, "We are witnessing the greatest eclipse of a political party in this country in our history...
...than a year ago. Executive Life Insurance, with 245,000 clients holding $40.5 billion of life insurance and annuities, was teetering toward insolvency. When California state insurance commissioner John Garamendi stepped before TV news cameras in Los Angeles last week, the pieces fell into place like tumblers in a lock...
...There isn't anything that's obvious to do," Jewett says, laying some of the blame for campus crime on students who prop open or forget to lock doors and who walk alone at night without considering the risks. He said he considered the main challenge "getting people to change their mindsets...