Word: medellin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...women's girdles. Sterling studied wiretap and court transcripts, then interviewed cops, judges, prosecutors and even Mafiosi. Her book shows how the failure of U.S. and Italian authorities to compare notes and settle turf disputes allowed the Sicilians to win the heroin war. While Washington focuses on the Medellin cocaine cartel, the Sicilians merrily push heroin Stateside and are opening up new cocaine channels to Europe -- both East and West. Their newest target? Says Sterling: the Soviet Union...
...serious fence mending to do with Latin leaders aggrieved by the Panama invasion. But while the Cartegena drop-by took place on foreign soil, it was designed for domestic consumption. For Bush to score points at home, all he had to do was go a few rounds on the Medellin cartel's turf and come back alive. His bold posture is working: 60% of Americans polled last week by TIME/CNN approved of the way Bush is fighting the war on drugs...
...Presidents may even bring up the arrest on drug charges of Washington Mayor Marion Barry. The Latins will decry what they perceive as an attempt by Bush to shift the flagging need to battle international communism to an expanded offensive against a new "evil empire," this one based in Medellin. If, as one Colombian commentator warns, Bush attempts to "project the image of the defiant macho," he can expect little cooperation from his Latin friends...
...Boeing 707 had been delayed fully 89 minutes in various holding patterns on its scheduled five-hour flight from Medellin, Colombia, to New York. Bad weather had stalled 248 other planes heading for Kennedy that day; in the two hours before the Avianca disaster, 33 pilots chose to land at other airports. The Avianca crew reported it did not have enough fuel to reach its designated alternate, Boston. Apparently because of high winds and low clouds, the plane missed its first landing attempt at Kennedy. It crashed on its second approach when all four engines failed, almost certainly for lack...
...Long Island catastrophe, Flight 52, bound from Bogota via Medellin to New York City, smashed into a wooded hillside in the wealthy community of Cove Neck. The absence of fire or explosion on impact and the lack of fumes afterward led to speculation that the 23-year-old Boeing 707 had run out of fuel only moments before it was supposed to land at New York's Kennedy Airport...