Word: midlevel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rodriguez Gacha hooked up with Pablo Escobar and the then fledgling Medellin cartel. Gradually he worked his way up to midlevel cocaine dealer, pioneering new routes through Mexico and into the U.S. This, coupled with his fascination for bandito folklore, earned him the nickname El Mexicano. Through the years he financed the import of expensive foreign technology to serve the cartel's needs, and he has been linked to paramilitary death squads...
...poppy harvests; many made money; no one got hurt. Then on Feb. 1, when 22 suspected narcotics traffickers were arrested in three Mexican states, it became increasingly clear that Mexico had become yet another way station for Medellin cartel business. Six of the detainees were Colombians believed to be midlevel operatives for the cartel. When Mexican federal police inspected a warehouse the Colombians used in Sonora, they found 100 AK-47 assault rifles, 65,000 rounds of ammunition, 92 bayonets and six infrared night scopes. Said a high- level Mexican official: "If Mexico allows itself to get caught...
...operations of a large cocaine laboratory inside Panama; Melo was fired but not prosecuted. Last year Cesar Rodriguez, who had worked as a pilot for Noriega, was murdered in Colombia in what appeared to be a drug deal gone awry. Critics charge that while Noriega has deported some midlevel traffickers to the U.S., he has never arrested the cocaine barons who use Panama as a plush hideout. After Colombia's Justice Minister, Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, was assassinated in 1984, leaders of the Colombian drug cartel headed for Panama to escape the heat...
...State Department is arguing for a swift and substantive counterproposal to get the summit preparations moving, while the Pentagon and the CIA oppose any concessions that would threaten Star Wars. A meeting last week of midlevel arms-control advisers ended "in total disagreement," said one participant. "We are bogged down here, really stalemated." Unflagging support for SDI also dims the prospect for any agreement on nuclear testing. The Soviets have called for a total moratorium and have not detonated a nuclear device since August 1985. But some of the weapons envisioned by SDI require underground nuclear tests. The Pentagon argues...
Responding to a perceived lack of midlevel offerings, the Fine Arts Department is considering revamping its undergraduate curriculum as early as 1986, professors said this week...