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Only a year ago the Cali kingpins were freely gadding about, unhampered by both the Colombian authorities and the rival Medellin cartel, which died along with its chief Pablo Escobar in 1993. The Cali cartel now handles 80% of the world's cocaine traffic, with a $7 billion gross last year in the U.S. alone. "This is probably the biggest organized-crime syndicate there has ever been," says Thomas Constantine, head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. "For their impact, profit and control, they're bigger than the Mafia in the U.S. ever was." Santacruz lived as a cocaine baron...
...Institute for Biological Studies at a magnificent compound designed by Louis Kahn, on an oceanfront promontory in La Jolla, California. It attracted scientists in many fields to pursue biomedical research. In 1970, two years after divorcing his first wife, Salk married Francoise Gilot, the onetime companion and muse of Pablo Picasso and mother of two of Picasso's children...
...Drug Enforcement Administration officials have long felt, however, that Gilberto's intelligence has been overrated. Believed to be the leader of the powerful Cali cocaine cartel, Gilberto, who says he is merely an honest drugstore magnate, has never been able to explain why the Medell?n drug lord Pablo Escobar-now deceased-was always trying to kill him. In any case, "the Chess Player," as Gilberto is known, miscalculated on his final move, failing to negotiate the terms of his surrender with the Colombian government. Last Friday he was arrested in a surprise raid on a Cali house...
Rueb and sophmore teammate Mitty Arnold also competed in the doubles tournamnet, but they, too, were eliminated Thursday afternoon in the round of 32. The match started well for the Crimson duo, as they won a first-set tiebreak against Chris Mahoney and Pablo Montana of Tennessee. However, the Volunteers came back to take the next two sets...
...loan to the Harvard University Art Museums. Vojtech Jirat-Wasiutynski, associate professor, Department of Art, Queen's University will speak about Vincent Van Gogh; Yule F. Heibel, independent scholar will speak about Wassily Kandinsky; Robert J. Boardingham, assistant curator, European Paintings, Museum of Fine Arts will speak about Pablo Picasso and Hollis Clayson, professor, Department of Art History, Northwestern University will speak about Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Sackler Museum Auditorium, 2:15 p.m. Free...