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After 11 months of all-out war, the government of President Virgilio Barco Vargas has damaged but not destroyed Escobar's multibillion-dollar empire. Since last August, when cartel hit men murdered presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan, dozens of cocaine laboratories have been torched, one top drug baron has been killed, hundreds of suspects have been arrested, and more than a dozen extradited to the U.S. In response, Escobar has unleashed a campaign of terror that has claimed some 300 civilian lives. After two successive weekends of violence in Medellin took more than 40 lives, the government two weeks...
With the U.S. deluged by drugs, the accessory trade has become a multibillion-dollar industry. The profits are high -- a crack pipe that costs 3 cents to produce can retail for $8 -- and the risks of jail are low. Though a 1986 federal statute makes it a felony to import, export or conduct interstate trade in paraphernalia, no federal law bans its manufacture. Moreover, while all states except Alaska have passed laws to control the sale of paraphernalia, the crime is typically a loosely enforced misdemeanor. "These guys simply do not face an equivalent risk for the harm that they...
...they created a huge new multibillion-dollar market -- of kids and the underclass -- to buy their product. Parents and other guardians of tradition are as concerned about the audience for X-rated pop as they are about the perpetrators. If pop weren't popular, fewer people would worry about its impact. No one has mounted a campaign against Randy Newman's songs about racial and sexual bigotry, for example, because Newman's audience is relatively small and well educated. The artful photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe, some of which depict homosexual acts and sadomasochism, took a while to raise legal hackles...
Attempts to influence news reporting, however, are not always prompted by such laudatory aims. Professional publicity experts have made a multibillion- dollar industry out of copping column inches and airtime for everything / from smokers' rights and rap records to haute couture and the Trump bust-up. And the White House has raised press manipulation to a virtual art form, often for the narrowest political motives. The Reagan Administration, led by the Great Persuader himself, was notorious for its spin control. Last week the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, a Washington-based watchdog group, issued a report detailing nearly...
...power tie. Nicknamed "Mad Dog" for his courage under fire, he regaled friends with tales of his jungle-patrol days in Viet Nam. He talked of his Silver Star, two Bronze Stars and four Purple Hearts. He often told colleagues that he stood to inherit a multibillion-dollar fortune from the German brewery family of the same name...